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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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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

Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women : violence against women as a barrier to women's political and economic empowerment : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

11 July 2014 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Elimination of discrimination against women : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

10 July 2014 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Elimination of discrimination against women

20 June 2013 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Trafficking in persons, especially women and children: efforts to combat human trafficking in supply chains of businesses

19 June 2013 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Elimination of discrimination against women : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

19 July 2012 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

Accelerating efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women : remedies for women who have been subjected to violence : resolution / adopted by the Human Rights Council

16 July 2012 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

The right to a nationality : women and children : draft resolution / Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, United States of America, Uruguay

28 June 2012 | Publisher: UN Human Rights Council | Document type: Resolutions/Recommendations/Declarations

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