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The Council of Europe and Western Sahara
The Council of Europe has showed its concern in relation to the situation of human rights in Western Sahara through its organisms. Parliamentary Assembly The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe expressed its views on Western Sahara in the …
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The European Union
The European Union – General Introduction The European Union and Western Sahara
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The African Union
The African Union – General Introduction The African Union and the RASD The African Union and Western Sahara
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The ICC – General Introduction
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. It has been established in 1998 with …
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The Human Rights Council Complaint Procedure – General Introduction
A complaint procedure was established by the Human Rights Council in order “to address consistent patterns of gross and reliably attested violations of all human rights and all fundamental freedoms occurring in any part of the world and under any …
Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
The Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance is one of the most recent international human rights instruments and its aims is to affirm an absolute prohibition of all forms of enforced disappearance (see Art. 2 “No …
The individual complaint procedures
The individual complaint procedures are a mechanism that allows individuals who deem to have suffered the violation of a right protected by an international Convention to address a claim to an international Committee. Individuals, who are under the jurisdiction of …
Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families
The Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families entered into force on 1 July 2003. It is the first and most comprehensive treaty for the protection of migrants and stresses the …
Third Parties Reports on Western Sahara
The Department of State of the United States – Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor – has issued a report on human rights conditions in Western Sahara. The report summarises the history of the Western Sahara region and the …
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly and entered into force on 3 September 1981. In order to achieve its aim, the Convention provides a …
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