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2nd World Forum on human rights held in Nantes

24 July 2006 [12:20] - TODAY.AZ
The Commissioner of Human Rights of Azerbaijan Mrs. Elmira Suleymanova attended the second World Forum on Human Rights in Nantes, France.

The event was organized by the French National Commission for UNESCO, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and International Labor Organization.

The forum discussed discriminations and diversity (discrimination in a worldwide context of cultural diversity), economic globalization and human rights, responsibilities and solidarities, gender problems and other questions.

Mrs. Suleymanova informed the forum participants about the protection and promotion of human rights in Azerbaijan and conditions of children in the country.

She also stressed rights of hundreds of Azeri children were abused in result of Armenia's military aggression.

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