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1. New UN Human Rights Chief puts most vulnerable people as top priority
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=11444
&Cr=human&Cr1=rights

The new United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, who took up her position at the beginning of July 2004, has put protecting the rights of the most vulnerable people at the top of her list of priorities as she publicly outlined her work programme for the first time.

2. UK boost for Human Rights
http://www.gnn.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?Release
ID=124322&NewsAreaID=2&ClientID=32&NavigatedFrom
Department=False&NavigatedFromDepartmentList=False

A major UK Government review of human rights treaties has resulted into the acceptance of an individual petition mechanism under one of the core UN human rights treaties - the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This means that people in the UK will be able to take complaints about discrimination against women directly to the UN body that monitors the treaty.

3. UN development report calls for cultural freedom to become a basic human right
http://www.hrea.org/lists/display.php?headline_id=1508&language_id=1

Countries should treat cultural freedoms as basic human rights that are essential to life in modern, diverse societies, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says in its annual flagship report.

Also access Human Development Report 2004 at:
http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2004/

4. UK passes gangmaster law
http://www.antislavery.org/homepage/news/latestnews.htm

A Bill designed to protect agricultural workers from exploitation by gangmasters in the UK has become law. Gangmasters are people who supply labour quickly and on a temporary basis.


5. Soli Sorabjee to chair UN human rights panel
http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2004/july/88642.htm

Soli Sorabjee, former Attorney General of India, was unanimously elected as the chairperson of the 56th Session of the United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Geneva on July 26.		  
 
 
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