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The deteriorating situation of human rights in Eastern Ghouta, in the Syrian Arab Republic, para. 1

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Having held an urgent debate to discuss the deteriorating situation of human rights in Eastern Ghouta, in the Syrian Arab Republic, which is currently under siege by the Syrian authorities,
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • N.A.
Year
2018
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic 2018, para. undefined

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Art. 9. The provisions of the present Convention constitute no obstacle to the humanitarian activities which the International Committee of the Red Cross or any other impartial humanitarian organization may, subject to the consent of the Parties to the conflict concerned, undertake for the protection of wounded and sick, medical personnel and chaplains, and for their relief.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Health
  • Humanitarian
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 1. (3)

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At the expiration of a period of five years after the coming into force of this Convention, and when the Governing Body of the International Labour Office prepares the report provided for in Article 31 below, the said Governing Body shall consider the possibility of the suppression of forced or compulsory labour in all its forms without a further transitional period and the desirability of placing this question on the agenda of the Conference.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • N.A.
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 10. (2) (a)

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[Meanwhile, where forced or compulsory labour is exacted as a tax, and where recourse is had to forced or compulsory labour for the execution of public works by chiefs who exercise administrative functions, the authority concerned shall first satisfy itself] that the work to be done or the service to be rendered is of important direct interest for the community called upon to do the work or render the service;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • N.A.
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 10. (2) (c)

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[Meanwhile, where forced or compulsory labour is exacted as a tax, and where recourse is had to forced or compulsory labour for the execution of public works by chiefs who exercise administrative functions, the authority concerned shall first satisfy itself] that the work or service will not lay too heavy a burden upon the present population, having regard to the labour available and its capacity to undertake the work;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
  • N.A.
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 10. (2) (e)

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[Meanwhile, where forced or compulsory labour is exacted as a tax, and where recourse is had to forced or compulsory labour for the execution of public works by chiefs who exercise administrative functions, the authority concerned shall first satisfy itself] that the execution of the work or the rendering of the service will be directed in accordance with the exigencies of religion, social life and agriculture.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 11. (1) (c)

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[Only adult able-bodied males who are of an apparent age of not less than 18 and not more than 45 years may be called upon for forced or compulsory labour. Except in respect of the kinds of labour provided for in Article 10 of this Convention, the following limitations and conditions shall apply:] (c) the maintenance in each community of the number of adult able-bodied men indispensable for family and social life;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • Families
  • Men
  • Women
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 14. (5)

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Nothing in this Article shall prevent ordinary rations being given as a part of wages, such rations to be at least equivalent in value to the money payment they are taken to represent, but deductions from wages shall not be made either for the payment of taxes or for special food, clothing or accommodation supplied to a worker for the purpose of maintaining him in a fit condition to carry on his work under the special conditions of any employment, or for the supply of tools.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 15. (2)

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In any case it shall be an obligation on any authority employing any worker on forced or compulsory labour to ensure the subsistence of any such worker who, by accident or sickness arising out of his employment, is rendered wholly or partially incapable of providing for himself, and to take measures to ensure the maintenance of any persons actually dependent upon such a worker in the event of his incapacity or decease arising out of his employment.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 17. (2)

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[Before permitting recourse to forced or compulsory labour for works of construction or maintenance which entail the workers remaining at the workplaces for considerable periods, the competent authority shall satisfy itself] (2) that definite arrangements are made to ensure the subsistence of the families of the workers, in particular by facilitating the remittance, by a safe method, of part of the wages to the family, at the request or with the consent of the workers;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Families
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 17. (3)

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[Before permitting recourse to forced or compulsory labour for works of construction or maintenance which entail the workers remaining at the workplaces for considerable periods, the competent authority shall satisfy itself] (3) that the journeys of the workers to and from the workplaces are made at the expense and under the responsibility of the administration, which shall facilitate such journeys by making the fullest use of all available means of transport;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • All
  • N.A.
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 17. (5)

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[Before permitting recourse to forced or compulsory labour for works of construction or maintenance which entail the workers remaining at the workplaces for considerable periods, the competent authority shall satisfy itself] (5) that any worker who may wish to remain as a voluntary worker at the end of his period of forced or compulsory labour is permitted to do so without, for a period of two years, losing his right to repatriation free of expense to himself.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 15. (1)

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Any laws or regulations relating to workmen's compensation for accidents or sickness arising out of the employment of the worker and any laws or regulations providing compensation for the dependants of deceased or incapacitated workers which are or shall be in force in the territory concerned shall be equally applicable to persons from whom forced or compulsory labour is exacted and to voluntary workers.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 19. (1)

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1. The competent authority shall only authorise recourse to compulsory cultivation as a method of precaution against famine or a deficiency of food supplies and always under the condition that the food or produce shall remain the property of the individuals or the community producing it.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Economic Rights
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 19. (2)

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2. Nothing in this Article shall be construed as abrogating the obligation on members of a community, where production is organised on a communal basis by virtue of law or custom and where the produce or any profit accruing from the sale thereof remain the property of the community, to perform the work demanded by the community by virtue of law or custom.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
  • N.A.
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 20

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Collective punishment laws under which a community may be punished for crimes committed by any of its members shall not contain provisions for forced or compulsory labour by the community as one of the methods of punishment.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 12. (2)

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Every person from whom forced or compulsory labour is exacted shall be furnished with a certificate indicating the periods of such labour which he has completed.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 13. (1)

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The normal working hours of any person from whom forced or compulsory labour is exacted shall be the same as those prevailing in the case of voluntary labour, and the hours worked in excess of the normal working hours shall be remunerated at the rates prevailing in the case of overtime for voluntary labour.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 13. (2)

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A weekly day of rest shall be granted to all persons from whom forced or compulsory labour of any kind is exacted and this day shall coincide as far as possible with the day fixed by tradition or custom in the territories or regions concerned.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 14. (1)

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With the exception of the forced or compulsory labour provided for in Article 10 of this Convention, forced or compulsory labour of all kinds shall be remunerated in cash at rates not less than those prevailing for similar kinds of work either in the district in which the labour is employed or in the district from which the labour is recruited, whichever may be the higher.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
  • N.A.
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 14. (2)

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In the case of labour to which recourse is had by chiefs in the exercise of their administrative functions, payment of wages in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be introduced as soon as possible.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
Person(s) affected
  • N.A.
Year
2018
Paragraph

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 16. (1)

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Except in cases of special necessity, persons from whom forced or compulsory labour is exacted shall not be transferred to districts where the food and climate differ so considerably from those to which they have been accustomed as to endanger their health.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Food & Nutrition
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
Paragraph

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 16. (3)

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When such transfer cannot be avoided, measures of gradual habituation to the new conditions of diet and of climate shall be adopted on competent medical advice.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Food & Nutrition
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • N.A.
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 9 (d)

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[Except as otherwise provided for in Article 10 of this Convention, any authority competent to exact forced or compulsory labour shall, before deciding to have recourse to such labour, satisfy itself] that the work or service will not lay too heavy a burden upon the present population, having regard to the labour available and its capacity to undertake the work.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 10. (1)

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Forced or compulsory labour exacted as a tax and forced or compulsory labour to which recourse is had for the execution of public works by chiefs who exercise administrative functions shall be progressively abolished.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • N.A.
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 10. (2) (b)

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[Meanwhile, where forced or compulsory labour is exacted as a tax, and where recourse is had to forced or compulsory labour for the execution of public works by chiefs who exercise administrative functions, the authority concerned shall first satisfy itself] that the work or the service is of present or imminent necessity;
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
  • N.A.
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 12. (1)

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The maximum period for which any person may be taken for forced or compulsory labour of all kinds in any one period of twelve months shall not exceed sixty days, including the time spent in going to and from the place of work.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas 2018, para. 14. (3)

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The wages shall be paid to each worker individually and not to his tribal chief or to any other authority.
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Year
2018
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Integrity of the judicial system, para. 3

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Recalling the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance,
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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The right to privacy in the digital age, para. 3

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Reaffirming the human rights and fundamental freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and relevant international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities,
Body
United Nations Human Rights Council
Document type
Resolution
Topic(s)
  • Equality & Inclusion
  • Governance & Rule of Law
  • Social & Cultural Rights
Person(s) affected
  • All
Year
2018
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