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Myanmar: UN Experts Raise Alarm Over Forced Evictions, Escalation Of Rights Violations
Friday, 19 March 2021, 6:13 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (18 March 2021) – UN human rights experts* today deplored allegations of forced evictions, arbitrary detention and killings of pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar, saying States should consider applying the principle of universal jurisdiction ... More >>
Iran: Ahmadreza Djalali Nearing Death In Solitary Confinement, Torture Must End Now
Friday, 19 March 2021, 5:44 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (18 March 2021) — UN human rights experts* today demanded that Iranian authorities immediately release arbitrarily detained Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali who is reportedly in a critical condition and near death after months of ... More >>
Tsunami Of Hate And Xenophobia Targeting Minorities Must Be Tackled, Says UN Expert
Tuesday, 16 March 2021, 8:04 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (15 March 2021) – Social media have become platforms for the spread of hate, prejudice and incitement to violence and atrocities against minorities, a UN expert told the Human Rights Council today, calling for an international treaty to ... More >>
CAR Elections: Rights And Safety Of Voters And Candidates Must Be Protected, Says UN Expert
Saturday, 13 March 2021, 6:45 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (12 March 2021) - A UN expert said today authorities in the Central African Republic must ensure the protection of candidates, voters and electoral materials in the country’s second round of legislative elections and by-elections on March ... More >>
USA: UN Experts Call For President Biden To End Death Penalty
Friday, 12 March 2021, 7:11 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 March 2021) – UN human rights experts* have called on President Biden to do everything in his power to end executions in the United States, at both the federal and state level. “The death penalty is an abhorrent practice. It serves ... More >>
Cuba: Rights Of Human Rights Defenders Must Be Upheld, Says UN Expert
Friday, 12 March 2021, 7:02 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
A UN expert today called on Cuba to stop intimidation and detention of human rights defenders working for racial justice in the country. “The recurrent arrests of human rights defenders on the island, the lack of access to legal representation ... More >>
Japan Must Step Up Efforts To Solve Human Rights Fallout From Fukushima Disaster
Friday, 12 March 2021, 6:54 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 March 2021) – UN experts said today contaminated water still remaining at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant poses major environmental and human rights risks and any decision to discharge it into the Pacific Ocean cannot be an ... More >>
Myanmar Junta Crackdown Likely Crimes Against Humanity Requiring Coordinated International Response - UN Expert
Friday, 12 March 2021, 6:49 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 March 2021) – The Myanmar junta’s brutal response to peaceful protests likely meets the legal threshold for crimes against humanity, a UN expert told the Human Rights Council today, calling for a united global response in the country’s ... More >>
Iran: Women And Girls Treated As Second Class Citizens, Reforms Urgently Needed, Says UN Expert
Tuesday, 9 March 2021, 7:48 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Women and girls continue to be treated as second class citizens in Iran, a UN expert says in a report to the Human Rights Council, citing domestic violence, thousands of marriages of girls aged between 10 and 14 each year and continuing entrenched ... More >>
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 >>
