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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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Summary of the Human Rights Council panel discussion on the protection of journalists in armed conflict prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

2 August 2010 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports

Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Githu Muigai, on the manifestations of defamation of religions, and in particular on the ongoing serious implications of Islamophobia, on the enjoyment of all rights by their followers

12 July 2010 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Thematic Reports

Freedom of opinion and expression : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

12 October 2009 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

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