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Urgent Action Needed To Tackle Climate Change
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 7:47 am | UN Human Rights Office
The UN Child Rights Committee today published authoritative guidance on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. The guidance specifies the legislative and administrative measures States should urgently implement to address ... More >>
UN Rights Chief Issues Call To Protect And Expand Civic Space
Saturday, 27 May 2023, 3:08 pm | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (26 May 2023) – We all want to help shape our futures, our communities, and our countries, but it is not possible when we do not have space to speak up and debate different viewpoints safely, noted UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker ... More >>
Human Rights 75: Concrete Action Needed To End Racial Discrimination – UN Human Rights Chief
Tuesday, 7 March 2023, 6:46 am | UN Human Rights Office
6 March 2023 All human beings are born free and equal. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms without distinction of any kind. This is the promise set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. However, the daily reality for ... More >>
Comment By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk On Agreement Between Military And Civilians In Sudan
Tuesday, 6 December 2022, 5:34 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (5 December 2022) – I welcome today’s signing of a framework agreement between civilian leaders and the military in Sudan – an important first step towards a political agreement and the restoration of a civilian-led government. It will be ... More >>
Special Committee To Investigate Israeli Practices: Facilitate COVID-19 Vaccines In Occupied Palestinian Territory
Friday, 26 March 2021, 7:33 am | UN Human Rights Office
Special Committee To Investigate Israeli Practices Urges Israel To Facilitate COVID-19 Vaccines In Occupied Palestinian Territory GENEVA (25 March 2021) – After recent annual consultations with Member States, the United Nations Special Committee to ... More >>
BRIEFING NOTES - Haiti
Wednesday, 20 January 2021, 7:14 am | UN Human Rights Office
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Marta Hurtado Location: Geneva Date: 19 January 2021 Subject: Haiti We are concerned that persistent insecurity, poverty and structural inequalities in Haiti coupled with increasing political tensions ... More >>
Comment By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Michelle Bachelet On Wednesday’s Events In The USA
Friday, 8 January 2021, 8:43 am | UN Human Rights Office
We are deeply troubled by Wednesday’s attack on the US Capitol, which demonstrated clearly the destructive impact of sustained, deliberate distortion of facts, and incitement to violence and hatred by political leaders. Allegations of electoral ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Liz Throssell On The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
Thursday, 7 January 2021, 6:43 pm | UN Human Rights Office
We are deeply concerned about the arrests on Wednesday of 53 political activists, academics, former legislators, current district councillors, and lawyers in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and we call for their immediate release. These ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani On Execution Of Child Offender In Iran
Friday, 1 January 2021, 7:05 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (31 December 2020) – Early this morning in Iran, Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee was executed for an offence he allegedly committed when he was 16 years old. This is the fourth confirmed execution of a child offender in Iran in 2020. The execution ... More >>
Ethiopia: Threat Of Major Hostilities In Mekelle Seriously Imperils Civilian Lives – Bachelet
Wednesday, 25 November 2020, 6:16 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (24 November 2020) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday urged the parties to the conflict in Tigray to give clear and unambiguous orders to their forces to take constant care to spare – and protect – the civilian ... More >>
UN Committee Calls For Crackdown On Trafficking Of Women And Girls In Digital Age
Thursday, 12 November 2020, 6:22 am | UN Human Rights Office
The UN women’s rights committee today called on governments to pursue all appropriate means to eliminate trafficking in women and girls, highlighting the increasing use of social media to recruit trafficking victims during the COVID-19 pandemic. In its ... More >>
BRIEFING NOTES - India
Wednesday, 21 October 2020, 6:46 am | UN Human Rights Office
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 20 October 2020 India The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is today appealing to the Government of India to safeguard the rights of ... More >>
Bachelet Dismayed At Restrictions On Human Rights NGOs And Arrests Of Activists In India
Wednesday, 21 October 2020, 6:45 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (20 October 2020) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday appealed to the Government of India to safeguard the rights of human rights defenders and NGOs, and their ability to carry out their crucial work on behalf of ... More >>
Syria: Violations And Abuses Rife In Areas Under Turkish-affiliated Armed Groups – Bachelet
Saturday, 19 September 2020, 6:03 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (18 September 2020) – The human rights situation in parts of north, northwest and northeast Syria under the control of Turkish forces and Turkish-affiliated armed groups is grim, with violence and criminality rife, UN High Commissioner for Human ... More >>
BRIEFING NOTES - Cambodia
Saturday, 12 September 2020, 6:05 am | UN Human Rights Office
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 11 September 2020 Subjects: Cambodia Since 31 July, when prominent trade unionist Rong Chhun was arrested at his home in Phnom Penh by around 30 police officers, ... More >>
UN High Comm'r For HR Michelle Bachelet On Granting Of House Arrest To Juan Requesens In Venezuela
Saturday, 29 August 2020, 6:56 pm | UN Human Rights Office
"I welcome the granting of house arrest to the Venezuelan opposition parliamentarian Juan Requesens, after more than two years in detention at the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Services (SEBIN). This decision is a very positive ... More >>
Bachelet Alarmed By Threats Against Prominent Iranian NGO
Friday, 31 July 2020, 7:06 am | UN Human Rights Office
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said today she was alarmed by the Iranian Government’s increased pressure on a prominent civil society group working on poverty and social protection, and the arrest of its founding member. ... More >>
Bachelet: Haiti ‘Death Squad’ Leader Must Be Served Justice
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 7:01 am | UN Human Rights Office
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said today that former Haitian paramilitary leader Emmanuel "Toto" Constant, who was deported from the United States last month, must be held accountable for the horrendous human ... More >>
UN Human Rights Committee Publishes Interpretation On The Right Of Peaceful Assembly
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 6:58 am | UN Human Rights Office
The UN Human Rights Committee today published its interpretation on the right of peaceful assembly, defining the scope of assembly that applies to both physical meetings and virtual or online gatherings, and outlining governments’ obligations. The UN ... More >>
China: UN Experts Gravely Concerned By Enforced Disappearance Of Three Human Rights Lawyers
Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 9:11 am | UN Human Rights Office
UN human rights experts* expressed their grave concern about the welfare of three human rights lawyers who were forcibly disappeared by the Chinese authorities shortly after their arrest in December 2019. Three Chinese human rights lawyers, Mr. Ding ... More >>
