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UN experts urge States to stop looking the other way
Thursday, 12 September 2019, 9:34 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 September 2019) – States around the world must act urgently to prevent enforced disappearances rather than looking the other way, said a group of UN human rights experts. More >>
Mongolia: Mining should serve sustainable development
Thursday, 12 September 2019, 9:31 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA / ULAANBAATAR (11 September 2019) – The mining sector in Mongolia should play a truly transformative role and serve as a catalyst to ensure the realisation of economic, social and cultural rights, and spur human development, says a UN expert ... More >>
Financial institutions complicit in impact
Wednesday, 11 September 2019, 7:58 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (10 September 2019) – Austerity measures imposed by international financial institutions such as the IMF, regularly cause violations of human rights, says UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky in a ... More >>
Myanmar: UN experts concerned by incommunicado detention
Wednesday, 4 September 2019, 8:20 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (3 September 2019) - UN human rights experts* have expressed grave concerns about the use of incommunicado detention by the military in Myanmar, along with allegations of torture and ill-treatment and deaths in custody since the outbreak of armed conflict ... More >>
Nicaragua must stop reprisals against journalists
Tuesday, 27 August 2019, 8:08 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (26 August 2019) – The Nicaraguan Government must stop reprisals against staff of the broadcaster Radio Dario and end repression of other media workers, say UN and Inter-American human rights experts*. “Recent allegations received show ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Ethno-religious tensions must not be ignored
Tuesday, 27 August 2019, 8:06 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA / COLOMBO (26 August 2019) – Simmering ethno-religious tensions in Sri Lanka require urgent action by the authorities to strengthen respect for freedom of religion or belief in Sri Lanka, says UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief ... More >>
UN rights experts urge India to end communications shutdown
Friday, 23 August 2019, 9:39 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (22 August 2019) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Government of India to end the crackdown on freedom of expression, access to information and peaceful protests imposed in Indian-Administered Kashmir this month. The experts ... More >>
States must do more to stop hate crimes
Thursday, 22 August 2019, 8:15 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (21 August 2019) – States have an important role to play in promoting religious tolerance and cultural diversity by promoting and protecting human rights, including freedom of religion or belief, say a group of UN independent experts*. The experts ... More >>
Mali reconciliation efforts must be supported, says UN
Tuesday, 20 August 2019, 8:24 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (19 August 2019) The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali, Alioune Tine, has welcomed reconciliation initiatives launched in central Mali by traditional and religious leaders, civil society members and the local authorities. More >>
UN rights expert in first visit to Honduras
Thursday, 15 August 2019, 10:12 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA / TEGUCIGALPA (14 August 2019) – UN Special Rapporteur Diego García-Sayán will carry out an official visit to Honduras from 16-22 August 2019 to assess the status of the independence of judges and prosecutors, and of the free exercise of ... More >>
Sri Lanka: UN Rapporteur on freedom of religion to visit
Wednesday, 14 August 2019, 8:14 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA / COLOMBO (13 August 2019) – The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Ahmed Shaheed, will carry out an official visit to Sri Lanka, from 15 to 26 August 2019. “I will look at how Sri Lanka promotes and protects the rights ... More >>
Scourge of homelessness adds to hardships for LGBT youth
Saturday, 10 August 2019, 11:21 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (9 August 2019) – On the occasion of International Youth Day, the UN’s Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Victor Madrigal-Borloz, and the Special Rapporteur ... More >>
Use of racist language to gain votes or power must end
Thursday, 8 August 2019, 8:37 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (7 August 2019) – Following the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, the USA must take swift and decisive action that demonstrates its commitment to human rights, including the right to equal protection under the law, say a group of UN human rights ... More >>
UN experts urge decade of action to aid survival of language
Thursday, 8 August 2019, 8:07 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (7 August 2019) – In a statement to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, UN human rights experts* are calling for a decade of action to protect and promote the use of indigenous languages, many of which are endangered: ... More >>
Palestine journalist must be allowed to call Jerusalem home
Thursday, 1 August 2019, 9:51 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (31 July 2019) – Two UN human rights experts have called on Israel to halt its efforts to deport the Palestinian photojournalist Mustafa Al-Nadir Iyad Al-Kharouf, and to regularize his status in Jerusalem. More >>
Sri Lankans must act together in favour of democracy
Saturday, 27 July 2019, 12:17 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA / COLOMBO (26 July 2019) — The people of Sri Lanka must act together to secure democracy, human rights and the rule of law, says the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clément Nyaletsossi ... More >>
Myanmar: Human rights violations affecting region
Friday, 19 July 2019, 9:02 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
KUALA LUMPUR (18 July 2019) – Human rights violations in Myanmar are creating increasingly serious issues for South and South East Asia, a UN expert said today, urging stronger action by regional countries to address potential peace and security concerns. More >>
Italy: UN experts condemn criminalisation of migrant rescues
Friday, 19 July 2019, 9:01 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (18 July 2019) – UN human rights experts* have expressed grave concern over the detention and criminal proceedings in Italy against the German captain of the migrant rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, and stated that the threats to the judge who ruled ... More >>
Hungary: Declared migrant ‘crisis’ not based in reality
Thursday, 18 July 2019, 8:25 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
BUDAPEST (17 July 2019) – “Politicisation of the issue of migration in Hungary has scapegoated migrants,” a UN expert said today, calling on the Government to re-evaluate its stance and immediately stop proclaiming it is confronting a “crisis ... More >>
Experts urge robust action for freedom of expression
Friday, 12 July 2019, 8:08 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 July 2019) – On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Joint Declarations on Freedom of Expression, the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, David Kaye, together with other regional experts, has called for a robust response to the ... More >>
