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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 >>
Draft report of UN Periodic Human Rights Review - NZ
Thursday, 30 January 2014, 12:20 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
Human Rights Council Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review Eighteenth session Geneva, 27 January – 7 February 2014 More >>
Call For Calm Amid Daily Growing Demonstrations in Cambodia
Saturday, 28 December 2013, 8:49 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (27 December 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi, today reiterated his call for calm and restraint as demonstrations are now taking place daily in Phnom Penh. More >>
India must tackle root causes of violence against women
Saturday, 4 May 2013, 1:11 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
NEW DELHI / GENEVA (3 May 2013) – New laws against rape passed in India in the wake of the fatal gang rape of a female student in Delhi last December do not go far enough, the United Nations expert on violence against women has said. More >>
“Not ghosts, but human beings… persons with albinism”
Saturday, 4 May 2013, 11:33 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (4 May 2013) – “They are regarded as ghosts and not human beings who can be wiped off the global map. They are people living with albinism*, the target of many false and harmful myths in several countries, especially in the African region,” ... More >>
Vulnerable children still at risk of exploitation
Saturday, 27 April 2013, 1:22 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
“The full extent of the sale and sexual exploitation of children in the Kyrgyz Republic remains unknown, due to the clandestine and underground nature of the phenomena, the lack of early detection of children victims, and insufficient awareness of child ... More >>
UN urges Indonesian authorities to stop executions
Friday, 29 March 2013, 2:05 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (28 March 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Christof Heyns, today urged the Indonesian Government to restrict the use of the death penalty in compliance with its international obligations, after ... More >>
UN group concerned about excessive use of imprisonment
Friday, 29 March 2013, 2:01 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
Brazil: UN expert group concerned about excessive use of deprivation of liberty and lack of legal assistance More >>
Better protection for internally displaced people camps
Friday, 29 March 2013, 1:58 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA / ISLAMABAD (28 March 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDP), Chaloka Beyani, today condemned the vicious attack on Pakistan’s largest IDP camp, and called for better protection ... More >>
Religious violence in Myanmar
Friday, 29 March 2013, 1:56 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (28 March 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, today expressed serious concerns over the spread of violence between Muslim and Buddhist communities in Myanmar and urged ... More >>
UN group launches information-gathering visit to Brazil
Saturday, 16 March 2013, 1:56 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will undertake its first official visit to Brazil to assess the situation of deprivation of liberty in the country from 18 to 28 March 2013. More >>
Key UN expert group looks beyond the Millennium Development
Saturday, 2 March 2013, 2:43 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
Inequality, not in the name of progress – key UN expert group looks beyond the Millennium Development Goals More >>
UN expert calls for further efforts to protect human rights
Saturday, 16 February 2013, 1:18 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
UN expert calls for further efforts to protect human rights after visit to Khartoum and Darfur More >>
Duma urged to scrap bill on ‘homosexuality propaganda’
Saturday, 2 February 2013, 3:45 pm | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (1 February 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today called on the lower house of the Russian parliament to discard a draft bill to establish administrative penalties for “propaganda of homosexuality among minors,” ... More >>
Human Rights Council debates situation in Palestine
Thursday, 5 July 2012, 9:23 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council this afternoon held general debates under its agenda items on the human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories. More >>
Pillay urges ASEAN to set the bar high
Saturday, 12 May 2012, 11:40 am | United Nations Human Rights Council
GENEVA (11 May 2012) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday offered her encouragement to ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) in drafting a regional human rights declaration, but called for a meaningful consultation ... More >>
