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Mali: Ban slavery by law, say top rights experts
In a call to the Malian authorities to prevent people from being born into slavery, the experts said that the country is the only one in the Sahel region without...
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Afghanistan: Women tell UN rights experts ‘we’re alive, but not living’
“We are alarmed about widespread mental health issues and accounts of escalating suicides among women and girls,” they said in a joint statement. “This extreme situation of institutionalized gender-based discrimination...
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Keep Sudan borders open UNHCR urges, amid alarming rise in child deaths
Elizabeth Tan, UNHCR’s Director of International Protection said their first request was that countries allow civilians fleeing Sudan on “a non-discriminatory manner to access their territory”. She said this applied...
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USA: Slavery has left a deep and long-lasting legacy on the country, UN experts say
During the visit, the Mechanism visited Washington DC, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, and New York City saying in a press release, that it had been pleased to learn about...
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Human rights experts alarmed over ‘imminent executions’ in Saudi Arabia
“Despite being charged with terrorism, they were reportedly arrested for resisting forced evictions in the name of the NEOM project and the construction of a 170km linear city called The...
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Human rights ‘best antidote’ to advance peace, Security Council hears
Ambassadors met to examine the Council’s efforts towards building trust that leads to sustainable peace, in light of current and emerging threats. “Full compliance with human rights is the best...
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Israel: UN experts demand accountability over death of Palestinian hunger striker
The 45-year-old Palestinian died in his prison cell on Tuesday morning following a nearly three-month hunger strike. He had been protesting Israel’s widespread policy of arbitrarily detaining Palestinians in “abhorrent...
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Religious discrimination and police violence… France criticized at the UN
Several countries deplored on Monday religious discrimination and police violence during the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, May 1
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Psychiatrists discuss how to reduce the use of coercive measures
The need and feasibility of reducing coercion in mental health care is widely acknowledged. The discussion whether the goal is reducing or eliminating the use of coercive measures is a...
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Fragile gains on reducing child marriage, under threat from ‘polycrisis’: UNICEF
Currently, one in five young women aged 20 to 24, were married as children, versus nearly one in four a decade ago, according to the new analysis, entitled, Is an...