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Austerity Must Not Be Excuse To Penalize The Poor - UN
Friday, 28 October 2011, 10:02 am | OHCHR
NEW YORK (25 October 2011) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda, today warned about a growing global tendency to punish, segregate, control and undermine the autonomy of persons living in poverty, ... More >>
Protect Right to Defend Human Rights - UN Expert Urges
Thursday, 27 October 2011, 9:47 am | OHCHR
NEW YORK (24 October 2011) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Margaret Sekaggya today presented to the UN General Assembly her fourth report and her essential guide to the right to defend human rights*, a key document aimed at supporting those who ... More >>
Farmers Must Not Be Disempowered Labourers on Own Land - UN
Thursday, 27 October 2011, 9:42 am | OHCHR
NEW YORK (24 October 2011) – “For too long farmers have been forced to eke out a living from subsistence agriculture or, once they've fallen in debt, to cede their land and labour to work in exploitative conditions on plantations. Our failure to ... More >>
UN Special Rapporteur Seeks Engagement With Iran
Friday, 21 October 2011, 11:53 am | OHCHR
NEW YORK – The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, presented on Wednesday his first report* to the UN General Assembly, and briefed Member States on his efforts ... More >>
The Palestinian Children’s Plight under Prolonged Occupation
Friday, 21 October 2011, 11:46 am | OHCHR
NEW YORK – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, urged the Government of Israel to adopt guidelines for the protection of Palestinian children living under occupation ... More >>
OHCHR Press Briefing Note - Yemen
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 11:39 am | OHCHR
We condemn in the strongest terms the reported killing of a number of largely peaceful protestors in Sana’a and Taiz as a result of the indiscriminate use of force by Yemeni security forces since Saturday (15 October). More >>
UN Special Rapporteur: Prohibition of Solitary Confinement
Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 11:37 am | OHCHR
“Segregation, isolation, separation, cellular, lockdown, Supermax, the hole, Secure Housing Unit (SHU)… whatever the name, solitary confinement should be banned by States as a punishment or extortion technique,” said today the United Nations Special ... More >>
Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon are legally invisible
Tuesday, 18 October 2011, 10:20 am | OHCHR
United Nations Special Rapporteur, Gulnara Shahinian, today urged the Government of Lebanon to enact legislation to protect some 200,000 domestic workers in the country, warning that without legal protection some of them end up living in domestic servitude, ... More >>
OHCHR press briefing note: Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Egpyt
Wednesday, 12 October 2011, 10:32 am | OHCHR
The UN human rights office is concerned about a spike in violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank since the beginning of September. More >>
Violence against women: Prevent, Protect and Provide Justice
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 1:50 pm | OHCHR
“Pervasive, widespread and unacceptable; that’s violence against women throughout the world,” said United Nations Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo at the UN General Assembly today, presenting a key thematic report on violence against women, its causes ... More >>
Decriminalizing homosexuality step to genuine legal equality
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 1:34 pm | OHCHR
Calls for truly universal application of human rights have been gathering momentum at the global level. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, and UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon have both called for measures to counter discrimination ... More >>
Thailand / Freedom of Expression: UN Expert Recommendations
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 12:48 pm | OHCHR
GENEVA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, today urged the Government of Thailand to amend its laws on lèse majesté. According to Section 112 of the Thai penal code, ‘whoever ... More >>
World Mental Health Day, 10 October
Friday, 7 October 2011, 2:50 pm | OHCHR
Recognizing The Rights of People with Disabilities World Mental Health Day occurs each year on 10 October and is aimed at raising public awareness about mental health issues. The day promotes open discussion of mental disorders and investments in prevention, ... More >>
Somalia: Protection force for civilians from suicide attacks
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 10:46 am | OHCHR
The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Shamsul Bari, condemned in the strongest terms Tuesday’s suicide attack in Mogadishu, and called on the international community to deploy an international protection force to support ... More >>
Germany: UN on preventive detention and foreign detainees
Thursday, 6 October 2011, 10:35 am | OHCHR
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention today expressed its concern to the German Government on the system of preventive detention where persons continue to be deprived of their liberty after they have served their sentence because they ... More >>
OHCHR Press Briefing Note - Bulgaria
Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 9:57 am | OHCHR
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Subject: Bulgaria More >>
Congo Group On Enforced, Involuntary Disappearances
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 11:41 am | OHCHR
BRAZZAVILLE – A delegation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances,* composed of Mr. Olivier de Frouville and Mr. Osman El-Hajjé, visited the Republic of the Congo from 24 September to 3 October 2011, to learn about the ... More >>
UN: Vulnerable Land Users Must Be Protected Internationally
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 11:31 am | OHCHR
GENEVA – “Land rights are the first building block on the road to achieving food security, and without international consensus on how land should be governed, the interests of vulnerable land users will continue to be swept aside.” This was the ... More >>
“Pacific neighbours can learn from Tonga’s experience"
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 10:16 am | OHCHR
The experience of police reform in Tonga, which is slowly improving police accountability and performance as well as looking to rebuild trust between the people and their police force, could provide lessons to other Pacific Island countries, such as the ... More >>
Vulnerable land users must be protected by international law
Tuesday, 4 October 2011, 10:01 am | OHCHR
“Land rights are the first building block on the road to achieving food security, and without international consensus on how land should be governed, the interests of vulnerable land users will continue to be swept aside.” More >>
