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Torture And Impunity Widespread In DRC's Conflict Areas – UN Report
Thursday, 6 October 2022, 5:17 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
GENEVA (5 October 2022) – The vast majority of cases of torture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) occur in conflict-affected areas where impunity is widespread, according to a UN report released today. The report, issued by the UN Joint Human ... More >>
UN Report Records Piecemeal Progress In Combating Systemic Racism Against People Of African Descent
Saturday, 1 October 2022, 5:21 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
UN report records piecemeal progress in combating systemic racism against people of African descent, insists on urgent need for transformative change GENEVA (30 September 2022) – Activism led by people of African descent, joined by many others, has resulted ... More >>
Report Details Disturbing Trends As Reprisals Continue Against People Cooperating With The UN
Friday, 30 September 2022, 7:11 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
GENEVA / NEW YORK (29 September 2022) – People in 42 countries* across the world faced reprisals and intimidation for cooperating with the UN on human rights, a new report says, highlighting a number of disturbing trends over the past year. The annual ... More >>
Acting UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Welcomes Opening Of Trial For Massacre In Guinea 13 Years Ago
Thursday, 29 September 2022, 6:39 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
GENEVA (28 September 2022) – Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif today welcomed the opening of the trial in relation to serious human rights violations committed during the events of 28 September 2009 in Guinea. On that day, ... More >>
BRIEFING NOTES: (1) Iran; (2) Russia
Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 6:39 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 27 September 2022 Subject: (1) Iran (2) Russia 1) Iran We are very concerned by the continued violent response by security forces to protests in Iran, as well ... More >>
Comment By Acting UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif After Equatorial Guinea Abolishes Death Penalty
Wednesday, 21 September 2022, 6:01 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Geneva, 20 September 2022 I welcome the adoption of a new penal code in Equatorial Guinea abolishing the death penalty. The death penalty is incompatible with fundamental tenets of human rights and dignity. With the signing of the new penal code by the ... More >>
Mahsa Amini: Acting UN Human Rights Chief Urges Impartial Probe Into Death In Iran
Wednesday, 21 September 2022, 5:52 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
GENEVA (20 September 2022) – Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif today expressed alarm at the death in custody of Mahsa Amini - detained by Iran’s “morality police” enforcing strict hijab rules - and the violent ... More >>
UN Report Calls For Urgent Action To Halt Access To Revenue And Arms Supplies By Myanmar Military
Saturday, 17 September 2022, 5:32 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
GENEVA (16 September 2022) – States must do more to cut the Myanmar military’s access to revenue and arms supplies to halt its repression of the people, a report released today by the UN Human Rights Office said. The report was requested by the ... More >>
Spyware And Surveillance: Threats To Privacy And Human Rights Growing, UN Report Warns
Friday, 16 September 2022, 7:11 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
GENEVA (16 September 2022) – People’s right to privacy is coming under ever greater pressure from the use of modern networked digital technologies whose features make them formidable tools for surveillance, control and oppression, a new UN report ... More >>
The Philippines: UN Human Rights Report Looks To New Administration For Progress On Accountability And Reforms
Wednesday, 14 September 2022, 5:53 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
GENEVA (13 Sept 2022) – Amid continuing reports of human rights violations and abuses in the Philippines, including in the context of anti-drug operations, victims still face challenges in seeking justice, a UN report published today finds. In the ... More >>
51st Session Of The Human Rights Council | Statement By Nada Al- Nashif UN Acting High Commissioner For Human Rights
Monday, 12 September 2022, 7:59 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
12 September 2022 Distinguished President, Excellencies, Colleagues and friends, It is an honour to address you today. First, on behalf of the UN Human Rights Office, allow me to extend our warmest welcome to Under-Secretary-General Volker Türk, whose ... More >>
Mexico: Transfer Of National Guard To Defence Ministry A Setback To Public Security Grounded In Human Rights
Saturday, 10 September 2022, 5:26 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
GENEVA (9 September 2022) – Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif today expressed concern at the decision by Mexico’s Congress to give control of the National Guard to the Ministry of National Defence. On 9 September, ... More >>
BRIEFING NOTES: Ukraine
Saturday, 10 September 2022, 5:18 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine: Matilda Bogner Location: from Ukraine (via zoom) Date: 09 September 2022 Subject: Ukraine Good morning, Today I am joining you from Odesa – a ... More >>
Sri Lanka At Critical Juncture: UN Report Urges Progress On Accountability, Institutional And Security Sector Reforms
Wednesday, 7 September 2022, 5:50 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
GENEVA (6 Sept 2022) – Sri Lanka’s new Government should embark on a national dialogue to advance human rights and reconciliation, a UN report urges today, calling for accountability and deeper institutional reforms to prevent a recurrence of past ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani On Execution Of Five Prisoners In Gaza
Tuesday, 6 September 2022, 6:02 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
We condemn the execution of five prisoners in Gaza and urge the de facto authorities in Gaza to establish a moratorium on all executions. We call on the State of Palestine to take robust measures to abolish the death penalty in all its territory. The five ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani On Novaya Gazeta
Tuesday, 6 September 2022, 5:46 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Geneva, 5 September 2022 We are deeply concerned by the court’s decision in Moscow to revoke the licence of Novaya Gazeta, a respected national newspaper whose editor-in-chief received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The court found that the newspaper had repeatedly ... More >>
Bachelet Deplores Israel’s Failure To Grant Visas For UN Human Rights Staff In The Occupied Palestinian Territory
Tuesday, 30 August 2022, 7:46 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
GENEVA (30 August 2022) – Israel’s refusal to issue or renew visas for UN Human Rights staff in the occupied Palestinian territory will not prevent the Office from continuing to monitor and report on the human rights situation on the ground, UN ... More >>
Opening Remarks At UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet’s Press Conference In Geneva
Thursday, 25 August 2022, 7:43 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Geneva, 25 August 2022 Good morning. Thank you all for joining us today – in the room and online. As you know, after four years as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, my mandate ends next week, on 31 August. The world has changed fundamentally ... More >>
Briefing Notes: Ukraine
Wednesday, 24 August 2022, 5:49 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
We are concerned by reports that the Russian Federation and affiliated armed groups in Donetsk are planning - possibly in the coming days - to try Ukrainian prisoners of war in what is being labelled an ‘international tribunal’ in Mariupol. While ... More >>
Comment By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Michelle Bachelet On Repeal Of Singapore Law Banning Sex Between Men
Tuesday, 23 August 2022, 5:52 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Geneva, 22 August 2022 I welcome the announcement by the Prime Minister of Singapore to repeal Section 377A of the Penal Code which criminalises consensual sexual conduct between men. This colonial era law has more broadly impacted and stigmatised the ... More >>
