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Tanzania: Opposition Sentences Highlight Continued Stifling Of Freedoms
Wednesday, 18 March 2020, 7:53 am | UN Human Rights Office
The recent sentencing of eight senior members and one former senior leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party, CHADEMA, on charges including sedition and unlawful assembly is further troubling evidence of the crackdown on dissent and the stifling of public ... More >>
Two Years After ISIL Defeat, Some Iraq Children Still Not In School
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 9:13 am | UN Human Rights Office
A United Nations report published today finds that some children in Iraq are still unable to receive education in the aftermath of the territorial defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant over two years ago, saying they cannot access schools ... More >>
Report On Business Activities Related To Settlements In The Occupied Palestinian Territory
Thursday, 13 February 2020, 8:14 am | UN Human Rights Office
The UN Human Rights Office on Wednesday issued a report on business enterprises involved in certain activities relating to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, in response to a specific request by the UN Human Rights Council, contained ... More >>
Child rights in the Pacific: UN committee to meet in Samoa
Wednesday, 5 February 2020, 9:43 pm | UN Human Rights Office
The UN Child Rights Committee is due to hold an extraordinary session in Samoa from 2 to 6 March to focus on the situation of children’s rights in the Pacific region. It will be the first time any of the UN human rights treaty bodies, as the Committees ... More >>
Returning refugees to Myanmar would place them at risk
Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 10:46 am | UN Human Rights Office
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday urged the Government of Bangladesh to halt plans for the repatriation of more than 2,200 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, warning that the returns would be in violation of international law and ... More >>
30 Articles of the UDHR - Article 4: Freedom from Slavery
Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 10:44 am | UN Human Rights Office
Men bought and sold like commodities, held for years against their will on fishing boats off Thailand. Yazidi women sold into sex slavery, raped daily and passed from owner to owner. Human beings offered as birthday gifts to children. Article 4 is ... More >>
Khashoggi murder: Bachelet presses for investigation
Wednesday, 31 October 2018, 9:19 am | UN Human Rights Office
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday stressed that the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi must be investigated in an independent and impartial manner to ensure a full examination of, and accountability ... More >>
Culture of violating women's rights in Kyrgyzstan, says UN
Wednesday, 19 September 2018, 9:56 am | UN Human Rights Office
Women in Kyrgyzstan suffer grave and systematic violations of their human rights due to a culture of abduction, rape and forced marriage, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women found in an inquiry published today into ... More >>
Comment on Myanmar conviction of Reuters journalists
Tuesday, 4 September 2018, 9:26 am | UN Human Rights Office
Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on the conviction of two Reuters journalists in Myanmar, More >>
UN: Honduras election protests met with excessive force
Tuesday, 13 March 2018, 9:44 am | UN Human Rights Office
Honduras election protests met with excessive and lethal force – UN report GENEVA (12 March 2018) – Members of the Honduran security forces, in particular the military police, used excessive – including lethal – force to control and disperse protests ... More >>
Libyans ‘dying in desert’ in attempt to return home
Wednesday, 21 February 2018, 9:59 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (20 February 2018) – Libya must ensure the safety of hundreds of former residents of the northern town of Tawergha, who are stranded and even dying in the desert despite an agreement allowing their safe return, a UN human rights expert ... More >>
Israeli Supreme Court's "license to torture” ruling
Wednesday, 21 February 2018, 8:48 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (20 February 2018) - The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, expressed his utmost concern after a December 2017 ruling by Israel's Supreme Court exempting security agents from criminal investigation despite their undisputed use of coercive ... More >>
Constitutional changes in Cambodia impinge on democracy
Wednesday, 21 February 2018, 8:40 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (20 February 2018) – Two UN human rights experts expressed their grave concern about proposed changes to Cambodia’s Constitution which would impose far-reaching limits on democracy ahead of a national election this year, and beyond. More >>
Afghanistan: 10,000 civilian casualties in 2017 – UN report
Thursday, 15 February 2018, 8:36 pm | UN Human Rights Office
Afghanistan: 10,000 civilian casualties in 2017 – UN report Suicide attacks and IEDs caused high number of deaths and injuries GENEVA / KABUL (15 February 2018) – More than 10,000 civilians lost their lives or suffered injuries during 2017, ... More >>
UN rights experts alarmed by detention of Palestinian girl
Wednesday, 14 February 2018, 12:00 pm | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (13 February 2018) – UN human rights experts* have expressed alarm over the case of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi who, after an incident in which she slapped an Israeli soldier, appeared before an Israeli military court today. The ... More >>
UN child rights experts issue findings on 8 countries
Friday, 9 February 2018, 10:00 am | UN Human Rights Office
UN child rights experts issue findings on Sri Lanka, Guatemala, Panama, Seychelles, Spain, Solomon Islands, Palau, and Marshall Islands More >>
Report on business and rights in occupied Palestinian land
Thursday, 1 February 2018, 11:17 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (31 January 2018) – The UN Human Rights Office on Wednesday issued a report detailing its work on producing a database of business enterprises engaged in certain, specific activities in the occupied Palestinian territory that are either explicitly ... More >>
US must reverse outrageous dismantling of National Monument
Wednesday, 31 January 2018, 11:59 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (30 January 2018) – A US presidential order slashing the area of land in the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and paving the way for the extraction of natural resources is outrageous and should be reversed, a UN human rights expert ... More >>
Davos - address global risks rooted in human rights abuse
Wednesday, 24 January 2018, 9:56 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (23 January 2018) – As global leaders converge in Davos for the World Economic Forum, a group of United Nations experts called attention to the critical importance of human rights to the Forum’s objective of “Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured ... More >>
UN experts urge Turkey not to extend state of emergency
Thursday, 18 January 2018, 10:33 am | UN Human Rights Office
GENEVA (17 January 2018) - United Nations human rights experts* urged the Turkish Government not to extend the exceptional legal measures it has taken under its declared state of emergency, due to expire on 19 January. Since the attempted coup in July ... More >>
