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P UBLICATIONS A - ND E-PRODUCTS CATALOGUE 2

31 Dec 2020

The Fact Sheet also contains a brief analysis of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and provides an introduction to the activities and methods of work of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on human rights defenders. [...] This Fact Sheet discusses the establishment of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, in 1980, by the Commission on Human Rights and the Working Group’s mandate to assist families in determining the fate and whereabouts of their relatives and monitoring implementation of the 1992 Declaration on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. [...] The frame of the poster – the outcome of a joint project between OHCHR and UNESCO for the dissemination of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in schools – illustrates the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in visually-appealing and explanatory drawings. [...] A treaty body member is at the centre of the interpretation and application of international human rights treaty law, and contributes to the promotion, protection and implementation of human rights at the national level. [...] It sets out the source and scope of the legal obligations of Member States in respect of the rights of LGBTI people, and also integrates, for the first time, recommendations in respect of the rights of intersex persons.

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OHCHR Publications

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90
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Switzerland

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