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Experts urge Poland participation at climate talks
Tuesday, 8 May 2018, 10:22 am | UNHCHR
UN experts urge Poland to ensure free and full participation at climate talks GENEVA (7 May 2018) - Poland should ensure free and full participation at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24) at the end of the year, UN human rights experts* ... More >>
Somalia: Children kidnapped to be fighters continues
Saturday, 5 May 2018, 12:09 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA / MOGADISHU (4 May 2018) - The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, has condemned recent terrorist attacks in the country, and called for the immediate release of all children kidnapped or ... More >>
UN expert calls for calm, protection of civilians in CAR
Friday, 4 May 2018, 10:42 am | UNHCHR
GENEVA (3 May 2018) – A UN human rights experts has called for calm and for all sides to exercise restraint in the Central African Republic (CAR) following deadly attacks in the capital Bangui. More >>
UN rights expert urges Iran to halt imminent execution
Thursday, 3 May 2018, 10:47 am | UNHCHR
UN rights expert urges Iran to halt imminent execution of Ramin Hossein Panahi GENEVA (2 May 2018) – A UN human rights expert has urgently called on Iran to halt the death sentence against Iranian Kurd Ramin Hossein Panahi amid reports he will be ... More >>
Bahrain: UN rights experts condemn military court conviction
Tuesday, 1 May 2018, 1:50 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA (30 April 2018) – UN human rights experts* have called for the retrial of four men sentenced to death by a Bahraini military court in a collective trial that breached fair trial and due process guarantees and confessions obtained under torture. More >>
Cambodia: UN expert urges Government embrace elections
Tuesday, 1 May 2018, 1:49 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA (30 April 2018) – To ensure a genuine multi-party democracy in Cambodia which respects its citizens’ participation rights, the Government must immediately release detained opposition leaders and lift a ban on the opposition taking part ... More >>
Canada: UN expert urges new measures
Saturday, 28 April 2018, 11:48 am | UNHCHR
Canada: UN expert urges new measures to target gender-based violence, especially against indigenous women More >>
Israel must address excessive use of force, Zeid says
Saturday, 28 April 2018, 11:46 am | UNHCHR
GENEVA (27 April 2018) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Friday called on Israel to ensure that its security forces do not resort to the use of excessive force, following the many deaths and injuries sustained by ... More >>
Deaths in custody reinforce concerns about structural racism
Saturday, 28 April 2018, 11:46 am | UNHCHR
UN human rights experts says deaths in custody reinforce concerns about ‘structural racism’ in UK More >>
Human Rights are key to progress in North Korea talks
Thursday, 26 April 2018, 11:12 am | UNHCHR
GENEVA (25 April 2018) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People`s Republic of Korea, Tomás Ojea Quintana, has warned the States involved in any denuclearisation negotiations that avoiding the topic of human ... More >>
Enforced disappearances: UN expert group to review
Saturday, 21 April 2018, 1:00 pm | UNHCHR
Enforced disappearances: UN expert group to review in Geneva more than 950 cases from 36 countries More >>
Mongolia: water and sanitation issues
Saturday, 21 April 2018, 12:57 pm | UNHCHR
Mongolia: UN expert urges government to remedy water and sanitation issues in rural and ‘Ger’ areas More >>
Tunisia: A country in transition with hope and challenges
Friday, 20 April 2018, 9:56 am | UNHCHR
Tunisia: A country in transition with hope and challenges, says UN expert TUNIS (19 April 2018) - Tunisia has continued to make progress on democracy since the revolution more than seven years ago, including a Constitution guaranteeing fundamental rights ... More >>
Call on Iran to annul death sentence
Thursday, 19 April 2018, 7:53 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA (19 April 2018) – United Nations human rights experts* have called for Iran to annul the death sentence against an Iranian Kurdish prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi, amid serious concerns that he has not received a fair trial and has been mistreated ... More >>
NZ preventive detention violates human rights: UN experts
Thursday, 19 April 2018, 6:16 pm | UNHCHR
Preventive detention in New Zealand violates human rights, UN experts find GENEVA (19 April 2018) – New Zealand violated its obligations under the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights by keeping two men convicted of rape in exceptionally ... More >>
Ghana must prioritise social protection
Thursday, 19 April 2018, 10:33 am | UNHCHR
GENEVA (18 April 2018) – A UN human rights expert has commended Ghana as a champion of African democracy and a country which has achieved some important development milestones. But says unless growing inequality and continuing high poverty rates ... More >>
UN human rights experts condemn killings of Palestinians
Wednesday, 18 April 2018, 10:11 am | UNHCHR
UN human rights experts condemn killings of Palestinians near Gaza fence by Israeli security forces More >>
Viet Nam: UN experts call for change
Friday, 13 April 2018, 10:35 am | UNHCHR
GENEVA (12 April 2018) – A group of UN experts* has urged Viet Nam not to crackdown on civil society or stifle dissent after the jailing of seven human rights defenders for "conducting activities to overthrow the people's government". More >>
Call for Myanmar to drop prosecution of Reuters reporters
Friday, 13 April 2018, 10:35 am | UNHCHR
GENEVA (12 April 2018) - A Myanmar court’s decision to continue pursuing a case against two Reuters reporters gives rise to grave concern for investigative journalism and the public’s right to information in the country, UN experts* have said. More >>
UN report details scale and horror of detention in Libya
Wednesday, 11 April 2018, 9:51 am | UNHCHR
GENEVA (10 April 2018) – Armed groups in Libya, including those affiliated with the State, hold thousands of people in prolonged arbitrary and unlawful detention, and submit them to torture and other human rights violations and abuses, according ... More >>
