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Gaza: Palestinians With Disabilities Fear Being Killed First, Says UN Committee
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 4:47 am | OHCHR
People with disabilities in Gaza have been put in extreme distress with the expectation that they will be the first and the next to be killed because of the limited opportunities to flee or take part in evacuations due to their impairment, the UN Committee on ... More >>
Gaza: Türk Voices Horror At Loss Of Life In Camp For Displaced People After Israeli Strikes
Tuesday, 28 May 2024, 4:37 am | OHCHR
“The images from the camp are horrific and point to no apparent change in the methods and means of warfare used by Israel that have already led to so many civilian deaths,” said Türk. “Sunday’s strike underscores once again that there is literally no ... More >>
BRIEFING NOTES: (1) Myanmar; (2) Ukraine By Spokesperson For The UN High Commissioner For Human Rights: Liz Throssell
Saturday, 25 May 2024, 3:57 am | OHCHR
The High Commissioner calls for an immediate end to the violence, and for all civilians to be protected without any distinction based on identity. Prompt and unhindered humanitarian relief must be allowed to flow, and all parties must comply fully and ... More >>
Myanmar: Urgent International Action Crucial To Save Lives Of Thousands Of Rohingya In Rakhine State Says UN Expert
Friday, 24 May 2024, 4:53 am | OHCHR
“Once again, the world seems to be failing a desperate people in their hour of peril while a hate-driven unnatural disaster unfolds in real time in Myanmar’s Rakhine State,” said Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk On Resolution To Commemorate 1995 Genocide In Srebrenica
Friday, 24 May 2024, 4:40 am | OHCHR
The new International Day agreed today stands alongside the General Assembly’s earlier action to establish an International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. More >>
Israel: UN Expert Calls For Probe Of Allegations Of Torture And Mistreatment Against Palestinian Detainees
Friday, 24 May 2024, 4:30 am | OHCHR
“Persons deprived of liberty must always be treated humanely,” Edwards said. “They must be provided with all protections required under international human rights and humanitarian law, whatever the circumstances of their detention.” More >>
Attacks Against UN Human Rights Experts Must Cease: Coordination Committee Of Special Procedures
Saturday, 18 May 2024, 4:59 am | OHCHR
Independent UN human rights experts have faced unacceptable acts of intimidation, threats as well as personal attacks for carrying out their mandates to protect and promote human rights, according to a committee of experts that coordinates and facilitates ... More >>
Iran: UN Experts Alarmed By Death Sentence Imposed On Rapper And Songwriter, Toomaj Salehi
Friday, 26 April 2024, 5:32 am | OHCHR
Toomaj Salehi’s harsh sentencing takes place against a backdrop of severe restriction on artistic freedom and other forms of expression in the country. UN experts have raised his case with Iranian authorities at various occasions since his arrest in ... More >>
UN Experts Urge Immediate Release Of Afghan Rights Defender
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 4:58 am | OHCHR
Ahmad Fahim Azimi was imprisoned on 17 October 2023 by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan along with his colleague Siddiqullah Afghan, seemingly in connection with their work and advocacy for women's and girls' right to education. More >>
Myanmar: Türk Sounds Alarm Amid Rising Tensions In Rakhine
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 4:58 am | OHCHR
Since the year-long informal ceasefire between the two sides broke down last November, 15 of Rakhine’s 17 townships have been affected by fighting, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries, and taking the number of displaced to well over 300,000. More >>
Israel/Gaza: UN Experts Condemn Destruction Of Judicial Infrastructure, Call For Protection Of Justice Operators
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 12:18 pm | OHCHR
UN experts on 16 April called for the protection of justice operators in Israel and condemned the destruction of judicial infrastructure in Gaza. More >>
Russia: Oleg Orlov Trial Is An Abuse Of Legal System For Political Purposes, Says UN Expert
Friday, 5 April 2024, 10:12 am | OHCHR
“In keeping Oleg Orlov behind bars, on charges that have no grounds in international law, the Russian authorities show everyone in Russia the instruments they are willing to use to silence peaceful dissenters and independent voices and demonstrate the ... More >>
UN Expert Welcomes New York State Legislature Debate On Sovereign Debt Stability Bill
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 7:30 am | OHCHR
A UN expert today urged New York State authorities to adopt a bill to step up oversight of how debt from defaulted nations is restructured with creditors. “The Sovereign Stability Debt Bill creates an opportunity to outline a transparent procedure for ... More >>
Haiti: Türk Warns Of Deepening Human Rights Crisis Following Most Violent Month In Two Years
Monday, 12 February 2024, 5:14 am | OHCHR
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday issued an urgent warning about the deepening human rights catastrophe in Haiti, after figures showed that January was the most violent month in more than two years. “The already dire human ... More >>
Gaza: Türk Urges Ceasefire As Civilians Pushed To Frontier Amid Escalation
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 5:22 pm | OHCHR
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said today he feared for the rapidly increasing number of civilians in Gaza increasingly corralled towards the border with Egypt, as hostilities continue to escalate, including wave after wave of Israeli airstrikes, ... More >>
Israel Must Stop Using Water As A Weapon Of War
Saturday, 18 November 2023, 9:26 am | OHCHR
Israel must allow clean water and fuel into Gaza to activate the water supply network and desalination plants in the besieged enclave before it is too late, a UN expert warned today. "Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of ... More >>
UN Entities Demand Immediate Release Of Staff Detained In Yemen
Wednesday, 15 November 2023, 8:20 pm | OHCHR
It has been two years since two staff of UNESCO and the UN Human Rights Office were detained in Sana'a, Yemen. Since then, we have not received information about the reasons for their detention or their status, even though the Ansar Allah movement ... More >>
Gaza: Destroying Civilian Housing And Infrastructure Is An International Crime, Warns UN Expert
Thursday, 9 November 2023, 6:54 pm | OHCHR
The world must act now to end the horrifying and massive attacks against civilian housing and infrastructure in Gaza, which comes at a tremendous cost to human life, a UN expert said today. “Carrying out hostilities with the knowledge that they ... More >>
UN Human Rights Chief Condemns Rise In Hatred
Sunday, 5 November 2023, 9:45 am | OHCHR
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today strongly deplored the sharp rise in hatred globally - including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - since 7 October, while at the same time expressing concerns about undue restrictions on protests over the conflict ... More >>
UN Human Rights Committee Publishes Findings On Iran, Kuwait, Korea, Trinidad And Tobago, USA And Venezuela
Saturday, 4 November 2023, 5:56 pm | OHCHR
The UN Human Rights Committee today issued its findings on the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kuwait, the Republic of Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States of America and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, after examining the six States ... More >>
