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Comment By UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk On Abduction Of Ugandan Opposition Leader Kizza Besigye
Sunday, 24 November 2024, 11:14 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Besigye’s forced return to Uganda together with another senior member of the Forum for Democratic Change party, follows the abduction from Kenya in July of 36 other members of the party who were subsequently returned to Uganda and charged with terrorism. More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence On Public Execution In Afghanistan
Saturday, 23 November 2024, 8:24 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Public executions constitute a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Such executions are arbitrary in nature and contrary to the right to life protected under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Afghanistan is a State party. More >>
UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk Concludes Official Visit To Cameroon
Thursday, 8 August 2024, 8:45 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
I have just concluded a brief, but important visit to Cameroon. I am grateful to the President and the Government for their invitation, and for their openness to discussing a wide range of human rights issues with me and my Office here. More >>
Bangladesh: Türk Calls For Peaceful Transition And Accountability After Deadly Protests
Tuesday, 6 August 2024, 8:13 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on Monday said that it is vital the transition of power in Bangladesh is peaceful and guided by human rights, in line with the country’s international obligations, and that those responsible for the killing of hundreds ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Chief On Shocking Violence In Bangladesh
Monday, 5 August 2024, 10:01 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
The shocking violence in Bangladesh must stop. Scores more protesters were killed over the weekend. At least 13 police officers were also killed when a police station was attacked in Sirajganj district. More >>
Uganda: Türk Dismayed At Ruling Upholding Discriminatory Anti-gay Law
Friday, 5 April 2024, 5:28 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
“The Ugandan authorities must uphold the rights and dignity of all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Criminalization of and application of the death penalty to consensual same-sex relations are contrary to Uganda’s international ... More >>
Colombia: UN Expert Calls For Implementation Of Peace Agreement As A State Policy
Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 7:18 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA/BOGOTA (26 March 2024) - UN International Human Rights Expert Antonia Urrejola today called on the Colombian State to implement the 2016 Peace Agreement as a State policy and ensure that all dialogue processes with non-state armed groups take a ... More >>
UN Report Details ‘Climate Of Fear’ In Occupied Areas Of Ukraine, As The Russian Federation Moves To Cement Control
Thursday, 21 March 2024, 6:09 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (20 March 2024) – The Russian Federation has created a stifling climate of fear in occupied areas of Ukraine, committing widespread violations of international humanitarian and human rights law in an effort to consolidate its control over the ... More >>
Rushed Adoption Of National Security Bill A Regressive Step For Human Rights In Hong Kong – UN Human Rights Chief
Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 6:49 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (19 March 2024) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday deplored the accelerated consideration and adoption of a national security bill in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, despite detailed, serious ... More >>
Opening Statement By Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner For Human Rights To The 55th Session Of The Human Rights Council
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 9:03 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
President of the General Assembly, Secretary-General, President of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, This Council enters into session at a time of seismic global shocks. Conflicts are battering the lives of millions ... More >>
Gaza: Unbearable Suffering Of Civilians Demands End To Violence And Resumption Of Dialogue - UN Human Rights Chief
Monday, 4 December 2023, 9:55 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (3 December 2023) – The brutal resumption of hostilities in Gaza and its terrifying impact on civilians underscore once again the need for the violence to end, and for a political solution to be found that is built on the only viable long-term ... More >>
Haiti: UN Report Says Gang Violence Spreading, Urges Speedy Deployment Of Multinational Security Mission
Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 11:06 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA/PORT-AU-PRINCE (28 November 2023) - A new UN report out today details a further, shocking rise in gang violence in Haiti as criminal gangs forge alliances and expand to rural areas previously considered safe – killing, raping, kidnapping, and destroying ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Liz Throssell On Executions Of A Child And A Young Man In Iran
Wednesday, 29 November 2023, 10:56 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
The executions by Iranian authorities of a 17-year-old child and of a 22-year-old man, on 24 November 2023. The execution of Hamidreza Azari, who was accused of murder, is the first reported execution of an alleged child offender in Iran this year. We ... More >>
Israel/OPT: Türk Says Humanity Must Come First, Urges Humanitarian Ceasefire
Tuesday, 24 October 2023, 9:07 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (23 October 2023) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today called for a broad humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and Israel. He also called on the parties to the conflict to redouble efforts to ensure proper compliance with international ... More >>
Türk Warns Occupied West Bank Violence Risks Spiralling Out Of Control
Friday, 23 June 2023, 8:07 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (23 June 2023) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today warned this week’s violence in the Occupied West Bank risks spiralling out of control, fuelled by strident political rhetoric and an escalation in the use of advanced military weaponry by ... More >>
Taliban Edicts Suffocating Women & Girls In Afghanistan
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 3:35 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Relentless edicts issued by the Taliban since taking power in Afghanistan in August 2021 have severely restricted the rights of women and girls and suffocated every dimension of their lives, UN experts* said today. “Women and girls in Afghanistan ... More >>
UN Expert On Human Rights In Haiti Begins Official Visit
Tuesday, 20 June 2023, 3:27 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
William O’Neill, UN Expert on Human Rights in Haiti, will today start an official visit to Haiti that will last until Thursday 29 June. This is O’Neill’s first official visit to Haiti since he was designated as the UN Expert on Human Rights ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk On Sentencing Of Human Rights Defenders In China
Tuesday, 11 April 2023, 10:50 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
“I am very concerned that two prominent human rights defenders in China – Ding Jiaxi and Xu Zhiyong – have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms, at variance with international human rights law standards. Human rights law requires that people ... More >>
Comment By UN HRO Spokesperson Seif Magango On Malian Authorities’ Failure To Grant UN Investigators Access To Moura
Thursday, 21 April 2022, 5:51 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (20 April 2022) - We are extremely concerned that Malian authorities have still not granted UN human rights investigators access to the village of Moura, in the central region of Mopti, where Malian Armed Forces reportedly accompanied by ... More >>
Provide Unhindered Access To Whole Of Tigray To Protect Civilians, Bachelet Urges Ethiopia
Wednesday, 23 December 2020, 6:25 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Seven weeks after the conflict began in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the continuing lack of overall humanitarian access, coupled with an ongoing communications blackout in many areas, raises increasing concerns about the situation of civilians, UN High ... More >>
