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Special Rapporteur on cultural rights, Farida Shaheed.
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UN rights expert calls on Viet Nam to ensure pluralistic cultural expression

29 November 2013
Now that Viet Nam has made great strides in economic development, it is time to increase opportunities for public debate and better protect ethnic, artistic and academic freedom of expression, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today.
Child IDPs in al-Jawf, Yemen, pay the price for lack of access for aid workers to reach them with food aid.
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UN lauds new tool enabling individual complaints on economic, social and cultural rights

6 February 2013
The United Nations has applauded the upcoming availability of a new human rights instrument which, for the first time, will allow victims to file complaints at the international level about violations of their economic, social and cultural rights, placing those rights on equal footing with all other human rights.