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UN Committee Against Torture Publishes Findings On Côte D’Ivoire, Ecuador, The Republic Of Korea, And Türkiye
Saturday, 27 July 2024, 4:24 am | OHCHR
The Committee against Torture (CAT) today issued its findings on Ecuador, the Republic of Korea, Côte d’Ivoire and Türkiye, after reviewing the four State parties in its latest session. More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Liz Throssell On Ghana Court Ruling
Saturday, 27 July 2024, 4:16 am | OHCHR
We deeply regret the decision by the Supreme Court of Ghana to uphold colonial-era provisions of the Criminal Offences Act that effectively criminalise consensual same-sex relations. More >>
Russia Must Free Human Rights Defender Alexey Sokolov Arrested For Posting Facebook Logo: UN Experts
Saturday, 27 July 2024, 4:01 am | OHCHR
Russia must immediately and unconditionally release human rights defender, Alexey Sokolov, and drop the criminal charges against him, UN experts said today. More >>
Pakistan: Experts Urge Immediate End To Discrimination And Violence Against Ahmadis
Friday, 26 July 2024, 4:34 am | OHCHR
A group of independent experts today expressed grave concern regarding a reported upsurge in discrimination and violence against Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan, including extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and detentions, attacks on places of worship ... More >>
Bangladesh: UN Experts Call For Immediate End To Violent Crackdown And Full Accountability For Human Rights Violations
Friday, 26 July 2024, 4:18 am | OHCHR
UN experts today called on the Bangladesh government to immediately end the violent crackdown against protestors and political opponents, restore access to the Internet and ensure accountability for human rights violations. More >>
Bangladesh: Türk Decries Government Crackdown, Urges Respect For International Human Rights Standards
Friday, 26 July 2024, 4:12 am | OHCHR
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today called on the Bangladesh Government urgently to disclose full details about last week’s crackdown on protests amid growing accounts of horrific violence, and to ensure all law enforcement operations abide by international ... More >>
UN Human Rights Committee Publishes Findings On Croatia, Honduras, India, Maldives, Malta, Suriname, And Syria
Friday, 26 July 2024, 4:08 am | OHCHR
The UN Human Rights Committee today issued its findings on Croatia, Honduras, India, Maldives, Malta, Suriname, and the Syrian Arab Republic after examining the seven States parties in its latest session. More >>
USA: Free Speech On Campus Needs To Be Protected, Not Attacked, Say Experts
Friday, 26 July 2024, 3:59 am | OHCHR
Human rights experts today expressed grave concern at the massive crackdown on pro-Palestinian student protests at various university campuses across the United States of America. More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk On Killings In Papua New Guinea
Thursday, 25 July 2024, 4:19 am | OHCHR
I am horrified by the shocking eruption of deadly violence in Papua New Guinea, seemingly as the result of a dispute over land and lake ownership and user rights. More >>
Israeli Authorities Must Stop Targeting Palestinian Human Rights Defenders: Special Rapporteur
Thursday, 25 July 2024, 4:14 am | OHCHR
The Israeli authorities continue to target human rights defenders in the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, through prolonged administrative detention without charge, humiliation and ill treatment, an independent expert said today, calling ... More >>
Russia: Journalists Gershkovich And Kurmasheva’s Sham Trials And Imprisonment A Chilling Warning To All Journalists
Wednesday, 24 July 2024, 4:14 am | OHCHR
Together with Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva, at least 33 journalists are currently detained in Russia in a dangerous trend of intensifying the crackdown on independent media and dissenting voices since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine ... More >>
Jeremy Laurence Joined By Ajith Sunghay, The Head Of UN Human Rights Office For The Occupied Palestinian Territory
Sunday, 21 July 2024, 4:29 pm | OHCHR
Over the past week, the people of Gaza have been subjected to a renewed wave of deadly Israeli air strikes and ordered to move yet again to supposed ‘safe places’ that are anything but safe. More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan On The Enforced Disappearance Of Two Activists In Guinea
Sunday, 21 July 2024, 4:23 pm | OHCHR
The rights to freedom of opinion, expression and peaceful assembly of all Guineans, including opposition activists, must be protected. More >>
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk Calls For Accountability And Dialogue In Bangladesh
Saturday, 20 July 2024, 5:11 am | OHCHR
Bangladesh’s political leaders must work with the country’s young population to find solutions to the ongoing challenges and focus on the country’s growth and development. Dialogue is the best and only way forward. More >>
Gaza: Killing Of Hind Rajab And Her Family – A War Crime Too Many, Warn Experts
Saturday, 20 July 2024, 4:59 am | OHCHR
The killing of five-year old Hind Rajab, her family and two paramedics may amount to a war crime, independent experts warned today, denouncing Israeli claims that its troops were not in the area at the time as “unacceptable.” More >>
Decriminalization Of LGBTQ+ People Saves Lives Joint Statement By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk
Saturday, 20 July 2024, 4:49 am | OHCHR
As courts and parliaments in a number of countries are in the midst of considering the legal framework around the rights of LGBTQ+ people, we highlight that punitive laws against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people violate human rights ... More >>
Central African Republic: Urgent Action Required To Address Human Rights Violations In Places Of Detention - UN Report
Friday, 19 July 2024, 4:00 am | OHCHR
Urgent and concrete action is required to ensure respect for human rights in places of detention in the Central African Republic (CAR), where torture and ill-treatment, illegal and arbitrary arrest and detention, malnutrition and poor healthcare are ... More >>
Institutionalised Forced Labour In North Korea Constitutes Grave Violations Of Human Rights – UN Report
Wednesday, 17 July 2024, 4:15 am | OHCHR
The use of forced labour by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) against its citizens has become deeply institutionalised and raises a broad range of serious human rights concerns, according to a report by the UN Human Rights Office released ... More >>
Sudan: UN Expert Raises Alarm At Dire Human Rights Situation
Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 4:24 am | OHCHR
Radhouane Nouicer, the Designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has sounded the alarm about the dire human rights situation in the country as the fighting spreads to new areas. More >>
States Should Respect Comprehensive Definition Of Detention Places As Part Of Torture Prevention Efforts, Says UN Body
Tuesday, 16 July 2024, 4:19 am | OHCHR
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) on Monday called on all States parties to the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) to respect its comprehensive definition of places of deprivation of liberty. More >>
