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Governments’ Commitment To Torture Ban Lacks Credibility Worldwide: UN Expert
Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 7:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
A UN expert said today governments worldwide lacked credible commitment to the absolute and universal prohibition of torture and ill-treatment and most are defensive, dismissive or evasive over allegations of such abuse. “While the reactions of governments ... More >>
States Must Find Political Will To Prevent Murders Of Human Rights Defenders: UN Expert
Saturday, 6 March 2021, 6:17 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (5 March 2021) – UN expert Mary Lawlor* said today hundreds of human rights defenders are killed for their peaceful work every year, and States must find the political will to protect them and prevent the killings. “It is shocking that between ... More >>
Cambodia: Long Prison Terms For Former Opposition Leaders Appalling, Say UN Experts
Saturday, 6 March 2021, 6:10 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (5 March 2021) – UN human rights experts today deplored the disproportionate prison terms handed to exiled senior leaders of the disbanded Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) and called on the Government to protect freedoms of association ... More >>
Myanmar: UN Human Rights Expert Issues Report And Urges Decisive, Unified Action To Put An End To Brutality
Friday, 5 March 2021, 4:50 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The UN’s human rights expert on Myanmar said in a report published today the military junta in the country is illegal, illegitimate and responsible for widespread and systematic human rights violations against nonviolent, peaceful protesters, and should ... More >>
UN Expert Says Anti-Muslim Hatred Rises To Epidemic Proportions, Urges States To Act
Friday, 5 March 2021, 6:54 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (4 March 2021) – Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and other horrific acts of terrorism purportedly carried out in the name of Islam, institutional suspicion of Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim has escalated to epidemic proportions, ... More >>
Permanent State Of Emergency Cannot Be Used As A Justification Or Ground For Unilateral Sanctions
Friday, 5 March 2021, 6:52 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (4 March 2021) - Emergency declarations by the U.S. Government that authorise unilateral sanctions are resulting in severe human rights violations and must be brought in line with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), ... More >>
UN Expert Calls On States To End Counter-terrorism Policies And Practices That Harm Women, Girls And Family
Friday, 5 March 2021, 6:45 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (4 March 2021) – A UN expert said today counter-terrorism law and policy is negatively affecting the human rights of women and girls around the globe, undermining equality gains and limiting the exercise of women’s fundamental freedoms. “Twenty ... More >>
UN Expert: Water Crisis Is Worsening, Urgent Response Needed
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 7:51 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (3 March 2021) – A UN human rights expert today called for a robust and rapid global response to the world’s worsening water crisis, saying that climate change had become a “risk multiplier” - exacerbating pollution, scarcity and ... More >>
States Must Prevent COVID-19 Cultural Catastrophe: UN Expert
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 7:43 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (3 March 2021) – A UN expert today warned that COVID-19 may lead to a global “cultural catastrophe” with severe, long-lasting consequences for human rights if urgent measures, such as establishing a global cultural fund, are not implemented. ... More >>
Debt Crises: UN Expert Faults Credit Rating Agencies, Urges Reform
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 7:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (3 March 2021) - A UN human rights expert today called for urgent reforms to the international debt architecture, saying the ‘big three’ credit rating agencies had excessive influence over lending decisions, and conditions and interest ... More >>
Nigeria: Children Traumatised By Abduction Need Urgent Rehabilitation, Say UN Experts
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 7:30 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (3 March 2021) – UN experts* today urged Nigeria to prioritise specialised rehabilitation measures for the hundreds of abducted children left deeply traumatised after their release and to strengthen protection measures for those at risk. “Social ... More >>
Saudi Arabia: UN Experts Welcome Commutation Of Death Sentences For Three Minors, Urge Charges Be Dropped
Thursday, 4 March 2021, 7:28 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (3 March 2021) – UN human rights experts* welcomed Saudi Arabia’s recent decision to commute the death sentences given to three individuals for crimes allegedly committed when they were less than 18 years old, and urged Saudi Arabia to quash ... More >>
UN Experts Condemn Israel’s Demolition Of The Palestinian Village Of Humsa
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 7:36 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (2 March 2021) -- UN human rights experts have called on the Government of Israel to immediately end its efforts to demolish the Palestinian village of Humsa – Al Bqai’a in the northern Jordan Valley, and allow the residents to live undisturbed ... More >>
USA: Environmental Racism In “Cancer Alley” Must End – Experts
Wednesday, 3 March 2021, 7:34 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (2 March 2021) – UN human rights experts today raised serious concerns about further industrialisation of the so-called Cancer Alley in the southern US state of Louisiana, saying the development of petrochemical complexes is a form of ... More >>
COVID-19: UN Experts Urge WTO Cooperation On Vaccines To Protect Global Public Health
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 7:10 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (1 March 2021) – UN experts said today billions of people, especially in the Global South, risk being excluded from the benefits of COVID-19 immunisation until 2024 and urged rich States to end short-sighted vaccine nationalism that is ... More >>
Russia: UN Experts Say Navalny Poisoning Sends Clear, Sinister Warning To Critics
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 7:06 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (1 March 2021) – Two UN human rights experts today said an international investigation into the sinister poisoning of Alexei Navalny must remain a priority, stressing the urgent need to find the truth about what happened to the Russian opposition ... More >>
Myanmar: Military Must Restore Democracy, Allow People To Protest And Express Themselves, Say UN Experts
Saturday, 27 February 2021, 7:27 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (26 February 2021) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Myanmar military to immediately end the violent crackdown on countrywide peaceful protests against its coup and allow free expression. “The people of Myanmar have the right ... More >>
USA: UN Experts Urge Far-reaching Reforms On Policing And Racism
Saturday, 27 February 2021, 7:25 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (26 February 2021) – UN human rights experts* today called on the US Government to adopt wide ranging reforms to put an end to police violence, and to vigorously address systemic racism and racial discrimination. “We have repeatedly raised our ... More >>
Malaysia: UN Experts Appalled By Deportation Of Migrants To Myanmar Despite Court Order
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 5:21 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (24 February 2021) – UN human rights experts* are appalled by the Malaysian authorities’ decision to proceed with the deportation to Myanmar of over 1,000 detained migrants, including children and women at risk and other vulnerable individuals, ... More >>
Philippines: UN Experts Urge Release Of Senator Leila De Lima After Four Years In Pre-trial Detention
Thursday, 25 February 2021, 5:16 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (24 February 2021) – UN experts* today reiterated the call for the immediate release of Philippines Senator Leila De Lima, who has been held in pre-trial detention since 2017. In August 2018, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluded in ... More >>
