The right to access information 2013, para. 38
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- By its resolution 65/196, the General Assembly proclaimed 24 March as the International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims, in recognition of the work and values of Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero of El Salvador, who was killed in 1980. In his message on the day in 2013, the Secretary-General emphasized the individual and collective dimension of the right to truth, noting that each victim had the right to know the truth about violations against them, but that the truth also had to be told more widely as a safeguard to prevent violations from happening again.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Opinion, Report to the UNGA (2013), A/68/362, para. 38.
- Paragraph number
- 38
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