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The Human Rights Council adopts its 2020 agenda
The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system, based in Geneva. It is made up of 47 States and can discuss all human rights issues and situations that require its attention throughout the year. It is meeting to adopt its programme of work for the year and to select country rapporteurs for its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group in 2020. One of the main features of the Council, the UPR asks States to declare what actions they have taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and to fulfil their human rights obligations.
Colombia: ‘Staggering number’ of human rights defenders killed in 2019
14 January 2020 — The UN human rights office, OHCHR, is “deeply troubled by the staggering number of human rights defenders killed in Colombia” last year, its spokesperson said on Tuesday.
‘No shortcuts to a healthier world’: WHO chief sets out health priorities for the decade
13 January 2020 — The head of the UN health agency, WHO, has set out his urgent global health challenges for the next ten years – designated the “Decade of Action” by the UN General Assembly” –...
Colombia: ‘Significant strides’ towards integrated peace, UN envoy tells Security Council
13 January 2020 — Colombia has continued to make “significant strides in its peace process”, the top UN envoy in the country told the Security Council on Monday.