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UN Human Rights Council

The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe. The Council was created by the UN General Assembly on 15 March 2006 with the main purpose of addressing situations of human rights violations and make recommendations on them Website: www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/pages/hrcindex.aspx
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Report of the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia

15 September 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Country Reports

Accelerating efforts to eliminate violence against women: preventing and responding to violence against women and girls, including indigenous women and girls : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

19 July 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Addressing the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and violence in the context of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance on the full enjoyment of all human rights by women and girls : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

18 July 2016 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its sixteenth session, Addendum : Mission to Sweden

25 August 2015 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its sixteenth session, Addendum : Mission to the Netherlands

20 July 2015 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Report of the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice : Mission to Spain

17 June 2015 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Mission Reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Comprehensive study of the human rights situation of Roma worldwide, with a particular focus on the phenomenon of anti-Gypsyism

11 May 2015 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports

Discrimination and violence against individuals based on their sexual orientation and gender identity

4 May 2015 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports

Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review : Italy

10 December 2014 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Country Reports

Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent on its fourteenth session

14 July 2014 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Regional Reports

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