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'Lasting Peace In Central African Republic Requires Commitment Of All Sides To Free Elections'
Friday, 28 August 2020, 7:31 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Exactly four months ahead of 27 December elections in the Central African Republic, the UN’s Independent expert on human rights in that country has called on all sides – with the support of the international community – to ensure the vote can go ... More >>
UN Rights Experts Call On Chile To Drop Criminal Charges Against Influential Feminist Artistic Group
Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 7:24 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Chile should drop criminal charges against a feminist group of human rights defenders whose performance art has inspired women protestors around the world, UN human rights experts* said today. “The artistic and feminist group Las Tesis has been key in ... More >>
Imprisoned Human Rights Defenders In Egypt At Grave Risk Of COVID-19, Say UN Human Rights Experts
Tuesday, 25 August 2020, 7:15 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Lengthy and unnecessary pre-trial detention of scores of Egyptian human rights defenders is putting them at grave and unnecessary risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, UN human rights experts* said today. “There are credible allegations that some Egyptian ... More >>
Jordan: UN Experts Call For Release Of Labour Union Officials From Detention, Lifting Of Gag Orders
Thursday, 20 August 2020, 8:20 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN human rights experts* today called on Jordan to reverse its decision to close a teachers’ union, free its board members from detention and lift gag orders that have prohibited any public discussion of the case. “The actions of the Jordanian ... More >>
Ban Evictions During COVID-19 Pandemic, UN Expert Urges
Wednesday, 19 August 2020, 7:22 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Warning of an impending tsunami of evictions, the UN’s expert on housing rights today called on governments around the world to halt all evictions until the COVID-19 pandemic ends. “I am alarmed at the global increase in forced evictions,” said ... More >>
Belarus Must Stop Attacking Peaceful Protesters, UN Human Rights Experts Say
Friday, 14 August 2020, 7:33 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN human rights experts* today strongly criticised Belarus for police violence against peaceful protesters and journalists and large scale detention following a controversial presidential election, and called on the international community to put pressure ... More >>
UN Human Rights Experts Call For Justice And Accountability In Response To Beirut Explosion
Friday, 14 August 2020, 7:28 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The colossal deadly explosion in Beirut on 4 August requires a prompt and independent investigation that underscores international human rights obligations, clarifies responsibilities related to the explosion, and leads to justice and accountability, ... More >>
UN Experts: Sanctions Proving Deadly During COVID Pandemic, Humanitarian Exemptions Not Working
Saturday, 8 August 2020, 7:18 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
People in countries under sanctions cannot protect themselves against COVID-19 or get life-saving treatment if they fall ill because humanitarian exemptions to the sanctions are not working, UN human rights experts* said today. “Sanctions are ... More >>
UN Experts Call For Urgent Action To Remedy 'Alarming' Human Rights Situation In Jammu And Kashmir
Wednesday, 5 August 2020, 7:16 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
A year after India revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, UN human rights experts* today called on India and the international community to take urgent action to address the alarming human rights situation in the territory. “Urgent action ... More >>
UN Experts: Turkey Should Preserve Hagia Sophia As Space For Meeting Of Cultures
Saturday, 1 August 2020, 6:43 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul should be maintained as an inter-cultural space reflecting the diversity and complexity of Turkey and its history, and preserving the outstanding universal value which resulted in its World Heritage Status, say two UN human rights ... More >>
UN Expert Urges Mali To Step Up Efforts To Find And Free Opposition Leader
Friday, 31 July 2020, 7:57 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The UN expert on human rights in Mali today called on that West African country to step up efforts to find and free abducted opposition leader Soumaïla Cissé, who was abducted more than four months ago, on 25 March. “It is disturbing that ... More >>
The Netherlands: Reunite Refugee Family With Their Children, Don’t Deport The Parents
Friday, 31 July 2020, 7:53 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Netherlands must refrain from deporting two Ugandan refugee parents and their baby because it would separate them forever from their other children, UN human rights experts*said today. They expressed serious concerns over the Dutch Immigration and ... More >>
UN Experts Warn Of Closing Digital Space Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Friday, 31 July 2020, 7:29 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN human rights experts today warned of increased patterns of closing of digital spaces amid the COVID-19 pandemic. UN Special Rapporteurs* attending the annual RightsCon conference on human rights in the digital age, the first fully online, stressed that ... More >>
Kyrgyzstan: Death Of Human Rights Defender Azimjan Askarov A Stain On Country’s Reputation
Friday, 31 July 2020, 7:11 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The death in prison of human rights defender Azimjan Askarov, who for 10 years had unsuccessfully challenged his life sentence, shows a cruel disregard for human rights in Kyrgyzstan, says a UN human rights expert. “I was deeply saddened to hear the ... More >>
Exploitation Of Desperate Workers Should Never Be The ‘New Normal’, Says UN Expert
Friday, 31 July 2020, 7:09 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
World Day against Trafficking in Persons, 30 July 2020 The rampant exploitation of vulnerable workers, including many women and children, has increased alarmingly during the COVID-19 pandemic and urgent new measures are needed at the international ... More >>
Roma Still Victims Of Hate Crimes, Decades After Mass Killings, Says UN Expert
Friday, 31 July 2020, 5:46 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2 August 2020 Intimidation and aggression directed at Roma minorities has risen alarmingly in recent years and States must do more to prevent hate crimes and incitement to violence against them, a UN human rights expert ... More >>
UN Expert Welcomes Landmark Protection For Online Assembly
Thursday, 30 July 2020, 7:02 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association has hailed as groundbreaking an authoritative new interpretation that the right to peaceful assembly extends to digital activities. “I am excited by this truly landmark ... More >>
UN Expert: Speed Up Efforts To Achieve Human Rights To Water And Sanitation
Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 6:19 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Ten years after the UN explicitly recognised water and sanitation as a human right, billions of people lack safe drinking water and sanitation, a UN expert has warned. “The coronavirus pandemic has taught us that leaving behind the people most in ... More >>
UN Experts Welcome Peace Efforts In Mali, Say Respect For Human Rights Essential
Saturday, 25 July 2020, 6:54 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN human rights experts* today applauded the efforts of West African leaders to restore peace and stability to Mali, which is in the grips of a weeks-long political crisis. “The Thursday visit to Mali by the presidents of Ghana, Ivory Coast, Niger, ... More >>
UN Rights Experts Urge Nigeria To Immediately Release Humanist Accused Of Blasphemy
Saturday, 25 July 2020, 6:51 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN experts* have called on the Nigerian authorities to immediately release prominent humanist and rights defender Mubarak Bala, detained without charge on accusations of blasphemy, a potential capital offence. “We are deeply concerned over the serious ... More >>
