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UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights was the main subsidiary body of the Commission on Human Rights. The future of the Sub-Commission may be to assume its functions under the Human Rights Council in line with General Assembly resolution A/RES/60/251 establishing the Human Rights Council. It was originally established by the Commission on Human Rights at its first session in 1947, under the authority of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), as the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination against Minorities. In 1999, ECOSOC changed the title to Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. The Sub-Commission was composed of 26 experts who acted in their personal capacity and were elected with due regard to equitable geographical distribution. The Sub-Commission had six main working groups: on Administration of Justice; Communications; Contemporary Forms of Slavery; Indigenous Populations; Minorities, and on Transnational Corporations. Among the main themes addressed wwere: racism; the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world; economic, social and cultural rights; civil and political rights, i.e., torture, detention, disappearances and summary executions, freedom of expression, the independence of the judiciary, impunity and religious intolerance; the human rights of women, children, migrant workers, minorities and displaced persons. This database contains Sub-Commission reports relevant to the work of UNHCR.
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Report of the Sub-commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights on Its Fifty-eighth Session,
Geneva, 7-25 August 2006
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11 September 2006
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Category: Reference Documents
| Publisher: UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
| Document type: Sessional Reports
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Report of the Working Group on Minorities on its Twelfth Session (Geneva, 8-11 August 2006)
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24 August 2006
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| Publisher: UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
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Report of the Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery on its Thirty-first Session
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22 August 2006
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Category: Reference Documents
| Publisher: UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
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Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations on its Twenty-fourth Session
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14 August 2006
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| Publisher: UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
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Report of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights on Its Fifty-seventh Session (Geneva, 25 July-12 August 2005)
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17 October 2005
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| Publisher: UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
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Report of the Sub-commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights on its Fifty-sixth Session, Geneva, 26 July-13 August 2004
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21 October 2004
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| Publisher: UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
| Document type: Sessional Reports
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights
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26 August 2003
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| Publisher: UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
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Report Of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights on Its Fifty-fourth Session, Geneva, 29 July-16 August 2002
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19 November 2002
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| Publisher: UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
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Report of the Sub-Commission on the Promotiona nd Protection of Human Rights on its Fifty-third Session, Geneva, 30 July-17 August 2001
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22 November 2001
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| Publisher: UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
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REPORT OF THE SUB-COMMISSION ON THE PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ON ITS FIFTY-FIRST SESSION Geneva, 2-27 August 1999 Rapporteur: Mr. Paulo S. Pinheiro
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10 November 1999
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Category: Reference Documents
| Publisher: UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
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