IMADR Activities at the 27th Regular Session of the UN Human Rights Council (8th – 26th September 2014)
September 29, 2014
IMADR engagement with the 26th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council. Find our oral statements at the latest Council session here.
Oral Statements
- Item 3: Interactive Dialogues with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, “Arbitrary Detention in Australia and Sri Lanka“*
- Item 3: Interactive Dialogues with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, “Enforced Disappearance and Reprisals in Sri Lanka” *
- Item 4: General Debate, “Repression on human rights defenders in Sri Lanka”
- Half-day discussion on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, “Indigenous peoples and natural disaster risk reduction in Nepal” (joint statement)
- Items 3 & 5: Clustered ID with SR on indigenous peoples & Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), “Indigenous peoples’ access to justice in Nepal” (joint statement)
- Item 5: Report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the right to peace, “Declaration on the right to peace”
- Items 2&10: General Debate (including presentation of SG/HC country reports), “OHCHR investigation and reprisals in Sri Lanka” (joint statement)
*Statements on arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance in Sri Lanka were not delivered due to the lack of time.
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