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Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Marta Hurtado On Paraguay
Saturday, 13 July 2024, 4:35 am | OHCHR
We urge the authorities to engage in meaningful and inclusive consultations with human rights defenders, civil society and other organisations, and to guarantee a normative framework that fully complies with international human rights law. More >>
UN Experts Declare Famine Has Spread Throughout Gaza Strip
Wednesday, 10 July 2024, 4:00 am | OHCHR
The recent deaths of more Palestinian children due to hunger and malnutrition leaves no doubt that famine has spread across the entire Gaza strip, a group of independent experts said today. More >>
Volker Türk Deplores Wave Of Strikes Killing Dozens Of Civilians, Including Women And Children At Hospitals
Tuesday, 9 July 2024, 8:02 am | OHCHR
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today deplored the Russian Federation’s deadly wave of missile strikes on densely populated areas of Ukraine, which primarily affected Kyiv, Kryvi Rih, Pokrovsk and Dnipro. More >>
Experts Alarmed By Possible Extradition Of Refugee And Human Rights Defender Y Quynh Bdap From Thailand To Vietnam
Friday, 5 July 2024, 4:13 am | OHCHR
Independent experts* today expressed grave concern about Vietnam’s request to Thailand to extradite refugee and human rights defender Y Quynh Bdap, who co-founded Montagnards Stand for Justice, an organisation that advocates for indigenous rights in Vietnam. More >>
UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk Delivers Update On The Human Rights Situation In Venezuela
Thursday, 4 July 2024, 4:03 am | OHCHR
Despite official figures indicating a five per cent growth in GDP in 2023, Venezuelans still face serious obstacles to accessing food, health and education. Women, people in rural areas, and Indigenous Peoples are disproportionately affected. More >>
Israel: UN Experts Condemn Decades Of Unfair Trials For Palestinians In The Occupied West Bank
Thursday, 4 July 2024, 4:00 am | OHCHR
Palestinians right to due process guarantees have been violated for 57 years UN experts said today denouncing the lack of fair trial in the occupied West Bank since June 1967. More >>
India Must End Racial Discrimination Against Rohingya, Cease Forced Deportation And Arbitrary Detention, UN Committee
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 4:14 am | OHCHR
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Tuesday called on India to end the arbitrary detention of Rohingya who fled Myanmar to India and refrain from forcible deportation and returns to Myanmar. More >>
Myanmar: New Report Urges Robust Support For Women, Girls And LGBT People In Post-coup Myanmar
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 4:06 am | OHCHR
The report describes threats to the economic, social, and cultural rights of women, girls, and LGBT people, including loss of economic independence, shrinking access to education and health care, and impacts of protracted displacement. More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan On Convictions Of Environmental Activists In Cambodia
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, 4:01 am | OHCHR
The increasing use by Cambodian authorities of lèse majesté and other articles of Cambodia’s criminal code to penalise the exercise of human rights is deeply worrying. More >>
Torture Allegations Continue In Syria Despite ICJ Order: UN Expert
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 4:06 am | OHCHR
Syria must implement the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and take action to eradicate all forms of torture and ill-treatment in the country, a UN expert said today. More >>
UN Torture Prevention Body Announces Visits For 2025 And Adopts General Comment
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, 4:01 am | OHCHR
The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has announced plans to visit Afghanistan, Burundi, France, and Mexico in the first half of 2025, and confirmed upcoming visits to Bolivia, Nigeria, Greece, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the second ... More >>
Myanmar: UN Expert Spotlights Role Of Foreign Banks In Facilitating Probable War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity
Friday, 28 June 2024, 2:03 pm | OHCHR
Foreign banks are facilitating the Myanmar military junta’s access to weapons and related materials that are sustaining its campaign of violence and brutality against the people of Myanmar, according to a new report released today by Tom Andrews. More >>
Peru: UN Committee Alarmed By Draft Bill Establishing A Statute Of Limitations On Crimes Against Humanity And War Crimes
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 4:11 am | OHCHR
“The Committee on Enforced Disappearances expresses its grave concern about the draft law submitted to the Peruvian Congress, which provides that no one may be prosecuted, convicted, or punished for crimes against humanity or war crimes committed before ... More >>
Using Starvation As A Weapon Of War In Sudan Must Stop: UN Experts
Thursday, 27 June 2024, 3:59 am | OHCHR
Over 25 million civilians in Sudan and fleeing Sudan are being starved and require urgent humanitarian assistance because of the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF). More >>
UN Special Committee On Israeli Practices In Occupied Territories Concludes Field Mission
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 4:08 am | OHCHR
“Security personnel publicly and shamelessly share photos on social media platforms that violate the privacy and intimate sphere of Palestinian women, aimed at mocking, shaming and humiliating them,” the Special Committee said in an end of mission ... More >>
States And Companies Must End Arms Transfers To Israel Immediately Or Risk Responsibility For Human Rights Violations
Friday, 21 June 2024, 4:11 am | OHCHR
The transfer of weapons and ammunition to Israel may constitute serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian laws and risk State complicity in international crimes, possibly including genocide, UN experts said today, reiterating ... More >>
Haiti: Soaring Number Of Displaced Desperately Need Protection And Aid Priority, UN Experts Urge
Friday, 21 June 2024, 4:03 am | OHCHR
UN experts said today Haiti’s escalating gang violence and political instability have forced a record 578,074 internal displacements in 2024 including over 310,000 women and girls and 180,000 children, more than double the figure from 2022. More >>
UN Committee On Migrant Workers Publishes Findings On Congo, Senegal And Türkiye
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 4:07 am | OHCHR
The UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) today issued its findings on the Republic of the Congo, Senegal and Türkiye. More >>
International Day For The Elimination Of Sexual Violence In Conflict Statement By Radhouane Nouicer
Thursday, 20 June 2024, 3:59 am | OHCHR
Amidst the harrowing reports of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in Sudan, this year marks the 10th commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, on 19 June, with a focus on healthcare. More >>
56th Session Of The Human Rights Council - Statement On Myanmar By Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner For Human Rights
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 4:20 am | OHCHR
Myanmar is in agonizing pain. And the disintegration of human rights continues at breakneck speed. This is a crisis emblematic of a decades-long legacy of military domination, the stifling of dissent, and division. More >>
