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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 >>
Lives At Risk Unless Conditions For Spain’s Seasonal Migrant Workers Are Rapidly Improved
Saturday, 25 July 2020, 6:46 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Local governments must immediately improve deplorable conditions seasonal migrant workers endure in shanty towns around Spain’s strawberry townships before people die, a UN expert said today. In the past week, three fires in the informal settlements ... More >>
Iran: UN Experts Call For Urgent Release From Prison Of Human Rights Defender With COVID Symptoms
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 7:15 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (22 July 2020) – Iran must release human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, reportedly ill with coronavirus symptoms, and other arbitrarily detained individuals before it is too late, a group of UN human rights experts* said today. The group ... More >>
UN Experts Call On Tanzania To End Crackdown On Civic Space
Thursday, 23 July 2020, 7:05 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN experts* today urged Tanzania to immediately drop legislative and other measures that further curb civic space, particularly as the country gears up for October elections, and urged the Government to uphold its international human rights commitments. The ... More >>
UN Experts Call On Ethiopia To Allow Peaceful Protests, Welcome Partial Restoration Of Internet
Wednesday, 22 July 2020, 5:55 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN experts* today welcomed the restoration of broadband and Wi-Fi Internet in Ethiopia and called on the Government to respect the right of people to demonstrate peacefully. “Access to the Internet is closely related to the right of peaceful assembly,” ... More >>
Israel’s Collective Punishment Of Palestinians Illegal And An Affront To Justice: UN Expert
Saturday, 18 July 2020, 7:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
A UN human rights expert has called on Israel to immediately stop all actions amounting to collective punishment of the Palestinian people, with millions of innocent harmed daily and nothing achieved but deeper tensions and an atmosphere conducive to further ... More >>
UN Expert Welcomes UK Court Of Appeal Decision In Shamima Begum Case
Friday, 17 July 2020, 7:05 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
A UN human rights expert welcomed today’s ruling by the UK Court of Appeal that Shamima Begum, who left the United Kingdom for Syria as a minor to allegedly join ISIS, should be allowed to return home to challenge her deprivation of British citizenship. ... More >>
Nuclear Testing’s Discriminatory Legacy Must Never Be Forgotten: UN Expert
Friday, 17 July 2020, 6:34 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The hazards of nuclear testing continue to affect the lives of many innocent victims and governments worldwide should redouble efforts for global nuclear disarmament, a UN human rights expert said today. On the 75th anniversary of the Trinity tests ... More >>
Remembering Srebrenica: Honour Victims, Survivors By Preventing Future Atrocities, UN Experts Urge
Friday, 10 July 2020, 7:59 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN human rights experts today urged governments to honour victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide by building peaceful, inclusive and just societies to prevent a repetition of such an atrocity. “Genocides are not spontaneous,” the 17 experts said. “They ... More >>
UN Expert Calls For End To Gender-based Violence Against Women Journalists
Thursday, 9 July 2020, 7:06 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Women journalists face special dangers while doing their jobs, and governments must do more to protect them against gender-based violence, Dubravka Šimonović, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, said today in a report to the Human ... More >>
UN Expert Calls For Global Ban On Practices Of So-called 'Conversion Therapy'
Thursday, 9 July 2020, 7:04 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Practices known as “conversion therapy” inflict severe pain and suffering on lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender-diverse (LGBT) persons, often resulting in long-lasting psychological and physical damage, a UN expert told the Human Rights ... More >>
Ending Poverty By 2030 Now A Fading Dream, Says UN Expert
Wednesday, 8 July 2020, 7:35 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The global COVID-19 pandemic has pushed more than 250 million people to the brink of starvation and dashed hopes of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030, a UN expert says in a report published today. The report, to be presented to the UN Human Rights ... More >>
