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States Must Include LGBT Community In COVID-19 Response: The How And Why From A UN Expert
Friday, 15 May 2020, 7:55 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Governments worldwide must ensure COVID-19 emergency measures do not worsen inequalities or structural barriers faced by people with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities, or lead to increased violence and discrimination against them, a UN expert ... More >>
Human Rights: A Media Guide To The New UN Independent Experts (2020)
Friday, 8 May 2020, 6:44 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (8 May 2020) – The United Nations Human Rights Council appointed in March, at its 43d session, 12 new independent experts to its fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms. Currently, there are 56 mandates: 44 thematic ones and 12 mandates related ... More >>
UN Expert Urges Adoption Of Draft Declaration On International Solidarity
Thursday, 7 May 2020, 6:42 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
States and non-state actors must cooperate much more closely in the struggle to fully respect human rights after the world emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the UN Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity said today. In ... More >>
COVID-19: Urgent Need For Child Protection Services To Mitigate The Risk Of Child Sexual Abuse
Thursday, 7 May 2020, 6:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
A UN human rights expert today warned that a reported surge in violence against children and new forms of sexual exploitation and abuse of them during COVID-19 lockdowns will have lifelong implications for millions worldwide. Mama Fatima Singhateh, the ... More >>
UN Rights Expert Urges States To Step-Up Anti-slavery Efforts & Protect Most Vulnerable Amid COVID19
Tuesday, 5 May 2020, 6:50 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (5 May 2020) – A UN expert has urged Governments worldwide to increase protection for those most vulnerable to drifting into exploitative jobs. Inaction could lead to a sharp rise in the number of people being pushed into slavery because ... More >>
Criminalisation Of Journalism Around The World Must End Now, Says UN Expert
Saturday, 2 May 2020, 7:14 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The UN’s Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, David Kaye, has urged States to free all media workers detained because of their work and stop the intimidation and repression of the independent press. He released the following statement today ... More >>
Philippines Mine Standoff: Indigenous And Environmental Rights Must Be Respected, Say UN Experts
Friday, 1 May 2020, 6:52 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
A group of UN experts* urged the Philippines government not to discriminate against indigenous peoples in favour of business interests and when enforcing anti-COVID19 measures. On 6 April, around 100 police forcibly dispersed some 30 indigenous and ... More >>
Lao Dam Disaster: UN Rights Experts Call For Justice Two Years On
Wednesday, 29 April 2020, 7:04 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA / BANGKOK (29 April 2020) – A group of UN experts* called on governments and relevant businesses to take immediate action to address ongoing human rights violations experienced by survivors of a tragic dam collapse in the Lao People’s ... More >>
Myanmar: “Possible War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity Ongoing In Rakhine & Chin States”
Wednesday, 29 April 2020, 6:29 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA / BANGKOK (29 April 2020) – A UN human rights expert today called for an investigation into allegations of ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Myanmar’s Rakhine and Chin States. “While the world is occupied with the COVID-19 ... More >>
Responses To COVID-19 Are Failing People In Poverty Worldwide: UN Human Rights Expert
Thursday, 23 April 2020, 6:56 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Many Governments’ responses to COVID-19 have had devastating effects on people in poverty, said the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston. “Despite often far-reaching policy reversals and huge financial support ... More >>
UN Rights Experts Appalled By Iran’s Execution Of Child Offender
Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 7:56 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Two UN human rights experts today expressed their dismay that the Islamic Republic of Iran has again violated international human rights law by executing by hanging this morning child offender Shayan Saeedpour. The Special Rapporteur on the situation More >>
COVID-19 Measures Must Factor In Specific Needs Of Women, Say UN Experts
Tuesday, 21 April 2020, 6:21 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Governments must ensure women from diverse groups and backgrounds are included in decisions at the local, national and international level in handling the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of UN experts urged in a statement today. “Women are particularly ... More >>
COVID-19 Security Measures No Excuse For Excessive Use Of Force, Say UN Special Rapporteurs
Saturday, 18 April 2020, 6:54 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN Human rights experts* have expressed grave concern at the multiplication of accounts of police killings and other acts of violence within the context of COVID-19 emergency measures. “We are alarmed at the rise of reports of killings and other instances ... More >>
Cambodia’s State Of Emergency Law Endangers Human Rights, Warns UN Expert
Friday, 17 April 2020, 7:07 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (17 April 2020) – The Cambodian Government’s new state of emergency law in response to the COVID-19 pandemic risks violating the right to privacy, silencing free speech and criminalising peaceful assembly, a UN expert said today. “Emergency ... More >>
Responses To Crisis: UN Expert Urges More Government Spending Targeting Inequality, Not Big Business
Thursday, 16 April 2020, 6:57 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
States must dramatically increase spending that targets inequalities and poverty caused by the COVID-19 crisis, and not just bail out corporations, banks and investors without human rights or social conditions attached, a UN expert said today. In a ... More >>
COVID-19 Restrictions Should Not Stop Freedom Of Assembly And Association, Says UN Expert
Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 6:32 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
A UN expert today called on States not to use state of emergency declarations during the COVID-19 crisis to impose wholesale restrictions on freedom of peaceful assembly and association, and released detailed Guidelines governments and law enforcement ... More >>
Greece: Rights Violations Against Asylum Seekers At Turkey-Greece Border Must Stop
Tuesday, 24 March 2020, 9:16 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (23 March 2020) – Greece must take immediate action to end the violence against migrants and asylum seekers at the Turkey-Greece border and enhance their protection, a UN human rights expert said today. “I am very concerned about the ... More >>
COVID-19: Governments Must Promote & Protect Access To And Free Flow Of Information During Pandemic
Friday, 20 March 2020, 9:05 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
In light of the growing disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the monitors for freedom of expression and freedom of the media for the United Nations, the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, and the Representative on Freedom of the Media of the ... More >>
COVID-19: Israel Has ‘legal Duty’ To Ensure Palestinians In OPT Receive Essential Health Services
Friday, 20 March 2020, 9:02 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
A UN human rights expert has urged Israel, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas to live up to their international legal responsibilities by ensuring that the right to health is fully provided to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, including ... More >>
COVID-19: States Should Not Abuse Emergency Measures To Suppress Human Rights – UN Experts
Tuesday, 17 March 2020, 9:19 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (16 March 2020) – UN human rights experts* today urged States to avoid overreach of security measures in their response to the coronavirus outbreak and reminded them that emergency powers should not be used to quash dissent. “While ... More >>
