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UN experts call on Malaysia to stop targeting human rights
Saturday, 10 December 2016, 7:37 pm | UNHCHR
UN experts call on Malaysia to stop targeting human rights defenders under national security legislation More >>
South Africa: death of at least 37 people
Saturday, 3 December 2016, 1:07 pm | UNHCHR
South Africa: UN experts shocked by death of at least 37 people in flawed relocation process from psychiatric hospitals More >>
Sexual violence in South Sudan
Saturday, 3 December 2016, 1:06 pm | UNHCHR
UN Experts call for UN special investigation into epic levels of sexual violence in South Sudan More >>
USA: UN human rights expert to assess trafficking in persons
Saturday, 3 December 2016, 1:05 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA / WASHINGTON (2 December 2016) – United Nations human rights expert Maria Grazia Giammarinaro will visit the United States of America from 6 to 16 December to gather first-hand information on trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation ... More >>
Fundamentalism and populism pose deepening threat
Saturday, 26 November 2016, 8:42 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA (25 November 2016) – Women who step up to defend human rights are facing worsening obstacles amid a global trend of fundamentalism and populism, a group of United Nations rights experts* has warned. More >>
North Korea: UN expert calls for a people-centred approach
Saturday, 26 November 2016, 8:25 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA / SEOUL / TOKYO (25 November 2016) A United Nations rights expert has appealed to Governments and civil society organizations to put people squarely at the centre of their approaches to improve the human rights situation in the Democratic People’s ... More >>
Myanmar: UN expert warns of worsening rights situation
Saturday, 19 November 2016, 10:52 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA (18 November 2016) – A United Nations expert has called on the Government of Myanmar to take immediate action to tackle the deteriorating human rights situation in northern Rakhine State. More >>
UN expert urges Turkey to release detainees
Saturday, 19 November 2016, 10:51 pm | UNHCHR
UN expert urges Turkey to release detainees amid “grave concern” about free speech GENEVA / ANKARA (18 November 2016) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, today expressed deep ... More >>
Australia’s human rights record blemished
Saturday, 19 November 2016, 10:42 pm | UNHCHR
CANBERRA / GENEVA (18 November 2016) – United Nations Special Rapporteur François Crépeau today warned that Australia’s human rights record has been tarnished in recent years by migration policies which have increasingly eroded the rights of migrants, ... More >>
UNHCHR: Iraq / Mosul and Syria
Saturday, 12 November 2016, 3:45 pm | UNHCHR
As further evidence emerges of mass graves, sexual exploitation of women and girls, torture and killings and child recruitment in Mosul and other ISIL-occupied areas of Iraq, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has called for ... More >>
Zeid urges focus on victims’ rights
Saturday, 12 November 2016, 3:42 pm | UNHCHR
Zeid urges focus on victims’ rights, given “numbing” extent of civilian suffering in Iraq GENEVA (11 November 2016) – As mass graves and further evidence of sexual exploitation of women and girls, torture and killings, child recruitment and other ... More >>
Call for action on anniversary of Brazil dam collapse
Friday, 4 November 2016, 10:40 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA (4 November 2016) – A group of United Nations human rights experts has called for immediate action to address the ongoing impacts of the deadly collapse of a mining dam in Brazil on 5 November 2015. More >>
Battle for Mosul: ISIL forces thousands from their homes
Saturday, 29 October 2016, 9:09 pm | UNHCHR
Battle for Mosul: ISIL forces thousands of civilians from their homes and executes hundreds GENEVA (28 October 2016) – Credible reports suggest that ISIL has been forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes in sub-districts around Mosul ... More >>
Israel breaching Palestine’s right to development
Saturday, 29 October 2016, 9:06 pm | UNHCHR
NEW YORK / GENEVA (28 October 2016) – Palestine’s right to development is being denied by Israel, creating an environment plagued by poverty, “epic” unemployment and economic stagnation, according to a new report from a United Nations human rights ... More >>
UN expert urges action to protect North Korea rights
Friday, 28 October 2016, 11:02 pm | UNHCHR
NEW YORK / GENEVA (28 October 2016) – A United Nations rights expert has called on the international community to adopt a common and principled approach to the protection of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). “If we are ... More >>
Eritrea: Referral to the International Criminal Court Urged
Friday, 28 October 2016, 10:59 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA (28 October 2016) – States must heed the pleas of countless victims of crimes against humanity for justice and accountability, Sheila Keetharuth of the former UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in Eritrea urged the UN General Assembly ... More >>
Refugees and terrorism: “No evidence of risk”
Monday, 24 October 2016, 10:13 pm | UNHCHR
Refugees and terrorism: “No evidence of risk” – New report by UN expert on counter-terrorism More >>
Habitat III: “It’s not about conferences, but people”
Saturday, 22 October 2016, 7:49 pm | UNHCHR
Habitat III: “It’s not about conferences, but people” – UN expert calls for big ‘Shift’ in approach to housing More >>
Mosul: ISIL use of ‘human shields’
Saturday, 22 October 2016, 7:46 pm | UNHCHR
GENEVA (21 October 2016) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called for the protection of civilians to be at the forefront of military planning as the Iraqi Government and associated forces attempt to re-take Mosul, ... More >>
Canada: UN expert panel warns of systemic anti-Black racism
Saturday, 22 October 2016, 7:42 pm | UNHCHR
OTTAWA / GENEVA (21 October 2016) – The United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent today expressed serious concerns about systemic anti-Black racism in the criminal justice system in Canada. More >>
