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The right to a safe and healthy environment
Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 9:18 am | United Nations
GENEVA (5 March 2018) – It is high time that the international community recognized the human right to a healthy environment, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, John H. Knox, said on Monday. More >>
Slovakia must deliver strong message on journalist killing
Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 9:14 am | United Nations
GENEVA (5 March 2018) – Slovakia must send a strong message there will be no impunity for attacks against journalists by conducting a thorough investigation into the killing of Ján Kuciak and his partner Martina Kusnirova, UN human rights experts said. More >>
States must protect human rights defenders
Friday, 2 March 2018, 9:33 am | United Nations
GENEVA (1 March 2018) – States have an obligation to protect human rights defenders who often put their own lives on the line to assist the hundreds of thousands of people on the move [1] each year, a United Nations expert has told the Human Rights ... More >>
Migration policies can amount to ill-treatment and torture
Friday, 2 March 2018, 9:31 am | United Nations
GENEVA (1 March 2018) – Increasingly obstructive laws, policies and practices have pushed migrants towards irregular pathways and methods marked by an escalating prevalence of torture and ill-treatment, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils ... More >>
UN urges halt of plans to deport Eritrean and Sudanese
Friday, 2 March 2018, 9:30 am | United Nations
GENEVA (1 March 2018) – The new policy by Israel to deport Eritrean and Sudanese nationals violates international human rights and refugee law, UN human rights experts* have said, calling on the authorities to immediately suspend and revise the policy ... More >>
Turkey: UN deeply concerned by rise in torture allegations
Wednesday, 28 February 2018, 9:50 am | United Nations
GENEVA (27 February 2018) - The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, expressed serious concerns about the rising allegations of torture and other ill-treatment in Turkish police custody since the end of his official visit to the country in December ... More >>
Zeid Al Hussein at 37th session of Human Rights Council
Tuesday, 27 February 2018, 12:00 pm | United Nations
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein at the opening of the 37th session of the Human Rights Council More >>
UK violates women’s rights in Northern Ireland
Saturday, 24 February 2018, 12:34 pm | United Nations
GENEVA (23 February 2018) – The UK violates the rights of women in Northern Ireland by unduly restricting their access to abortion, a UN expert committee has found. More >>
Activists jailed for protesting toxic spill
Saturday, 24 February 2018, 12:33 pm | United Nations
GENEVA (23 February 2018) – UN human rights experts* have called for the release of individuals jailed for writing about and reacting to a discharge of toxic industrial chemicals into coastal waters of Viet Nam. More >>
Spying charges against wildlife activists “hard to fathom"
Saturday, 24 February 2018, 12:31 pm | United Nations
GENEVA (23 February 2018) – Iran must cease what appears to be a new and worrying trend of targeting environmental defenders, UN human rights experts* said following the detention of Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF) members on spying charges. ... More >>
Stop the “monstrous annihilation” of Eastern Ghouta – Zeid
Thursday, 22 February 2018, 10:40 am | United Nations
GENEVA (21 February 2018) – Since the Syrian Government and their allies escalated their offensive against opposition-held Eastern Ghouta on 4 February, there have been more than 1,200 civilian casualties, including at least 346 killed and 878 injured, ... More >>
Experts denounce criminalization of cultural rights advocacy
Thursday, 22 February 2018, 10:39 am | United Nations
GENEVA (21 February 2018) – UN human rights experts* expressed serious concern over the ruling by a Chinese court to uphold charges of “incitement to separatism” brought against a human rights activist who appeared in a documentary calling for ... More >>
Experts call for EU-wide ban on child immigration detention
Thursday, 22 February 2018, 10:36 am | United Nations
GENEVA/BRUSSELS (21 February 2018) -- Ahead of a key meeting of EU institutions and Member States today on issues relating to migration and asylum, the primary UN body monitoring child rights on Wednesday urged European countries to end the detention ... More >>
Peace process and human rights are indivisible
Thursday, 22 February 2018, 10:34 am | United Nations
BANGUI/GENEVA (21 February 2018) – From 6 to 16 February, the Independent Expert on the human rights situation in the Central African Republic, Marie-Thérèse Keita Bocoum, concluded an official visit to assess the impact of the African Union’s ... More >>
Yemen civilians at mercy of sniping, shelling and airstrikes
Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 9:21 am | United Nations
GENEVA (12 February 2018) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday voiced alarm at continuing civilian casualties in Yemen as hostilities increase and spread. More >>
Rule of law under siege in the Maldives
Tuesday, 13 February 2018, 9:19 am | United Nations
GENEVA (12 February 2018) – The detention of two Supreme Court judges in the Maldives is an attack on the independence of the judiciary and undermines the court’s ability to work freely and effectively, a group of United Nations human rights experts* has ... More >>
Global Goals must be a blueprint for fair globalization
Friday, 9 February 2018, 1:15 pm | United Nations
8 February 2018 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday highlighted the importance of engagement and empowerment to transform the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ) into benefits for all people worldwide and called on all ... More >>
UN seeks $1.06 billion to create ‘firewall against famine'
Friday, 9 February 2018, 9:48 am | United Nations
8 February 2018 – Ongoing conflicts and climate-related shocks have left millions of people on the brink of starvation, the United Nations agriculture agency warned on Thursday as it launched a $1.06 billion appeal to save lives and livelihoods, ... More >>
ICC to open examinations of Philippines ‘war on drugs;’
Friday, 9 February 2018, 9:42 am | United Nations
8 February 2018 – The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced on Thursday that she will open preliminary examinations into the so-called “war on drugs” campaign launched by the Government of the Philippines and, separately ... More >>
Let Olympic Flame ‘shine as a beacon to human solidarity,’
Thursday, 8 February 2018, 10:07 am | United Nations
7 February 2018 – This week the world will gather in PyeongChang, Republic of Korea, for the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, unified in what United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called “the Olympic Spirit: in solidarity; ... More >>
