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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 >>
Fighting Against Contemporary Forms Of Slavery
Thursday, 7 September 2023, 4:55 am | OHCHR
Canada’s temporary foreign worker programmes are a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery, a UN expert said today, urging the country to do more to protect workers and offer a clear pathway to permanent residency for all migrants. “I am ... More >>
Continuing Abuses In Manipur, India
Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 4:54 am | OHCHR
UN experts* today raised the alarm about reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in the Northeast State of Manipur in India, including alleged acts of sexual violence, extrajudicial killings, home destruction, forced displacement, torture ... More >>
Global North's Refuses To Waive COVID-19 Vaccine Intellectual Property Rights
Friday, 1 September 2023, 6:55 am | OHCHR
Global North States’ persistent refusal to waive COVID-19 vaccine intellectual property rights violated non-discrimination guarantee, UN Committee warns The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) today called on State ... More >>
Torture And 2,000 Prison Tariffs In UK
Thursday, 31 August 2023, 5:41 am | OHCHR
A UN torture expert today called on the UK Government to begin an urgent review of sentences imposed on prisoners held indefinitely under the widely discredited and now abandoned Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) system. “The Government ... More >>
Russian Court Decisions On Laws Discrediting Armed Forces A 'New Low'
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 7:44 am | OHCHR
UN experts* today expressed grave concern about recent decisions by Russia’s Constitutional Court to dismiss challenges to the constitutionality of the country’s legislative provisions that criminalise all “public actions aimed at discrediting” the Russian ... More >>
Call For Safe, Impartial Border Policies & Practices In Greece
Thursday, 24 August 2023, 4:06 pm | OHCHR
UN experts * today urged Greece to adopt safe and impartial border protection policies and practices and condemned the lack of accountability for violations involving Greek law enforcement personnel. “We urge Greece to take steps to ensure a transparent ... More >>
Widespread Use Of Rape & Sexual Violence By RSF In Sudan
Friday, 18 August 2023, 8:48 am | OHCHR
UN experts* today expressed alarm at reports of brutal and widespread use of rape and other forms of sexual violence by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during the four-month-old internal armed conflict in the Republic of Sudan and called for an end to the ongoing ... More >>
Human Rights In The Democratic People’s Republic Of Korea
Friday, 18 August 2023, 8:46 am | OHCHR
This open debate is a welcome opportunity to reflect and act on the dire situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, not least as human rights underpin peace and security, humanitarian action, and development. Human suffering ... More >>
International Community Must Act To End Israel’s Annexation Of Occupied West Bank & Defend International Law
Thursday, 27 July 2023, 9:39 am | OHCHR
The international community must take steps to prevent Israel’s annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory or risk being seen as accepting the Israeli Government’s systematic violation of international law, UN experts said today. “Israel’s continuous ... More >>
Disproportionate Use Of Force Against Kenyan Protesters
Saturday, 15 July 2023, 9:43 am | OHCHR
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday said it was very concerned over reports of police in Kenya using excessive force to quell protests this week which have left dozens dead and injured. The demonstrations began over what many Kenyans view as ... More >>
Peru Violates Child Rape Victim’s Rights
Wednesday, 14 June 2023, 9:45 am | OHCHR
The UN Child Rights Committee found that Peru has violated the rights to health and life of an indigenous and rural girl victim of rape by failing to provide her with information and access to legal and safe abortion. The Committee published its ... More >>
UN Human Rights Chief Türk Issues Open Letter To Twitter’s Elon Musk
Sunday, 6 November 2022, 6:39 pm | OHCHR
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer at Twitter, urging him to “ensure human rights are central to the management of Twitter” under Musk’s leadership. The letter ... More >>
The Netherlands Violated Child’s Right To Acquire A Nationality, UN Committee Finds
Wednesday, 30 December 2020, 6:51 am | OHCHR
In a ground-breaking decision, the Human Rights Committee has found that the Netherlands violated a child’s rights by registering “nationality unknown” in his civil records as this left him unable under Dutch law to be registered as stateless and ... More >>
Peaceful (and Not So Peaceful) Assemblies: Global Webinar On 16 December To Discuss Latest International Standards
Tuesday, 15 December 2020, 8:35 am | OHCHR
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights) and the University of Pretoria in South Africa will jointly hold a global webinar on 16 December to raise awareness on two new international instruments relating to the right of peaceful ... More >>
