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Comment By UN Human Rights Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence On Public Executions In Afghanistan
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 8:55 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
We are appalled by the public executions of three people at sports stadiums in Afghanistan in the past week. The executions in Ghazni and Sheberghan cities were carried out in the presence of de facto court and other officials, as well as members of the ... More >>
Gaza: ICJ Ruling Offers Hope For Protection Of Civilians Enduring Apocalyptic Conditions, Say UN Experts
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 8:58 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (31 January 2024) – The landmark ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) offers the first concrete hope to protect civilians in Gaza enduring apocalyptic humanitarian conditions, destruction, mass killing, wounding and irreparable trauma, ... More >>
Hundreds Of Thousands Trafficked To Work As Online Scammers In SE Asia
Wednesday, 30 August 2023, 4:50 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia - from romance-investment scams and crypto fraud to illegal gambling - a report issued today by the UN Human Rights Office ... More >>
Comment By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Volker Türk On Passing Of Thomas Buergenthal
Thursday, 1 June 2023, 11:44 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
“With the passing of Thomas Buergenthal yesterday, we lost a towering figure for the defence of human rights. The full span of Thomas Buergenthal’s life reflected and taught us the enduring power of human rights. His earliest years were lived in ... More >>
UN Expert Calls For “brave” New Approach To End Israeli Occupation Of Palestine
Tuesday, 26 October 2021, 10:25 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
A new “imaginative and brave” playbook is needed to achieve the globally agreed goal to end the 54-year-old Israeli occupation and secure Palestine’s self-determination, a UN human rights expert told the General Assembly today. “Yesterday’s playbook ... More >>
Racial Equity And Equality Must Guide State Action In COVID-19 Response, Say UN Experts
Tuesday, 7 April 2020, 6:36 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
UN human rights experts made an urgent appeal for governments to commit to racial equity and racial equality in providing health services for all during the COVID-19 crisis or risk a higher death rate because of discrimination. The Working Group of ... More >>
UN urges financial isolation of Myanmar military
Wednesday, 15 May 2019, 10:34 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar urges financial isolation of Myanmar military More >>
New UN expert sets out vision of new world order
Tuesday, 11 September 2018, 10:31 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
The UN’s new independent expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Livingstone Sewanyana, has said a new world order is possible. “I believe a new world order based on universal respect for human rights, social ... More >>
Samsung to compensate sick electronics workers
Tuesday, 28 August 2018, 10:10 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
The UN expert on toxics and human rights has welcomed a decision by the electronics giant Samsung to accept unconditionally an arbitration proposal on compensation for South Korean workers who have suffered serious illnesses while working for the company ... More >>
States illegally use immigration laws to justify racism
Tuesday, 3 July 2018, 10:23 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (2 July 2018) - Racist and xenophobic ideologies based on ethno-nationalism regularly combine with national security fears and economic anxieties to violate the human rights of non-citizens, indigenous peoples and minorities, said the UN ... More >>
Experts urge end to attacks on journalists
Thursday, 3 May 2018, 10:17 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (2 May 2018) – The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, David Kaye, and rights experts from around the world have joined forces to highlight growing threats to media independence and diversity worldwide, particularly those affecting ... More >>
Sweden role model for human rights-based aid and solidarity
Wednesday, 2 May 2018, 12:57 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
UN expert hails Sweden as role model for human rights-based international aid and solidarity More >>
Afghanistan: UN expert condemns attacks on journalists
Wednesday, 2 May 2018, 11:26 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (1 May 2018) - The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression condemned in the strongest possible terms the killing of nine journalists covering an attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, and called on the Government, with the assistance ... More >>
Myanmar: Civilians must be protected, Kachin violence mounts
Wednesday, 2 May 2018, 11:24 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (1 May 2018) – A UN human rights expert has expressed grave concerns over a sharp escalation in hostilities in Myanmar’s Kachin State, which has reportedly killed at least 10 civilians, left several wounded and forced thousands to flee their ... More >>
UN Experts Alarmed by Killing of Rio Human Rights Defender
Tuesday, 27 March 2018, 9:29 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
Brazil: UN Experts Alarmed by Killing of Rio Human Rights Defender Who Decried Military Intervention More >>
Guantanamo detention breaches human rights law
Thursday, 1 March 2018, 10:57 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
Guantanamo detention of Ammar al Baluchi breaches human rights law, UN experts say GENEVA (28 February 2018) – The US detention of a Pakistani man, Ammar al Baluchi, at Guantanamo Bay is arbitrary and breaches international human rights law, the UN ... More >>
Human rights principles to assess austerity are needed
Thursday, 1 March 2018, 10:55 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
Human rights principles to assess austerity are needed, says UN expert GENEVA (28 February 2018) - The negative impact of austerity measures on human rights should no longer be ignored, and effective action to avoid the impact is long overdue, the ... More >>
UN rights group: Migrant detention must be “last resort”
Tuesday, 27 February 2018, 11:53 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
Migrant detention must be “last resort”, UN rights group underlines in its Revised Deliberation on deprivation of liberty of migrants More >>
Report Highlights Reprisals Against Human Rights Defenders
Thursday, 21 September 2017, 8:52 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (20 September 2017) - A major new UN report warns that a growing number of human rights defenders around the world are facing reprisals for cooperating with the UN on human rights. More >>
UN Expert Urges Mauritania To Turn Pledges Into Deeds
Friday, 28 February 2014, 10:27 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on slavery, Gulnara Shahinian, today hailed Mauritania’s commitment and progress in the fight against slavery, but called on the authorities “to take more vigorous measures to eliminate slavery and to fully ... More >>
