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EU Intensifies Pressure: Six-Month Extension of Russia Sanctions

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Brussels, – The European Council has chosen to extend its ranging sanctions, against Russia, for an additional six months due to the ongoing aggression and destabilizing actions by Russia in Ukraine. These measures,...
Human Rights

Victory in the Supreme Court: CCHR’s criticism of psychiatric abuse not without factual basis

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SALUDMENTAL ( Original in Spanish ) The Plenary Session of the Civil Division of the Supreme Court, in its ruling STS 960/2024 of July 9th and published on the 12th in response to the appeal after its defeat...
Events

Empower. Unite. Transform 2024: Youth Ambassadors Unite for Human Rights, Justice and Peace at UN in New York

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KingNewsWire. 52 young representatives from 35 nations joined by over 400 government officials, educators, and human rights advocates from around the world convened at the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the 18th...
Health

Unsilenced: Psychiatric-abuses Watchdog Wins Supreme Court Battle in Spain

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The Supreme Court of Spain asserts in its ruling 960/2024 pf the Plenary of the Civil Chamber, that the public debate in which CCHR International and CCHR Spain are participating are of "undoubted general...
Human Rights

UN rights chief calls for end to Ukraine war following latest airstrikes

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Mr. Türk said these “relentless” attacks were deepening the humanitarian crisis in the country, tearing apart infrastructure, and creating a host of socioeconomic challenges.  Between March and May, 436 civilians were killed and...
America

Argentina – BAYS Yoga School, Nullity of elevation to trial confirmed by the Cassation Court

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Controversial accusations of criminal activities and prosecutions rejected for the second time. A setback for the prosecutors On 5 June last, the National Chamber of Cassation for Criminal and Correctional Matters confirmed the nullity of...
Human Rights

World News in Brief: UN responds to Bangladesh floods, sports and human rights, polio vaccination in Angola

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About 1.4 million people are estimated to have been left in dire straits, as heavy rains lashed Sylhet and Sunamganj districts, as well as areas upstream, in India.“Our priority is to ensure that...
Human Rights

World News in Brief: Doha talks on Afghanistan, human rights in Belarus, Rohingya refugees in India, global trade rises

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“This morning, we heard views from members of Afghan civil society, women and men, who provided us – the special envoys and the UN – with valuable insights on the rights of women...
Human Rights

UN rights chief urges free and open space for debate in Venezuela

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk reported increasing restrictions on civic spaces, urging stakeholders to reverse course.“My Office (OHCHR) continues to receive reports of detentions as election day approaches, including of...
Human Rights

Ukraine: UN report reveals ‘horrific toll’ of Russian attacks

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Released on Wednesday by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), the report explained the hardships civilians faced, including physical and long-term socioeconomic harm.It also emphasised the human rights impact of...
FORB

Russia – Three Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to 78, 74 and 27 months in prison

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Gevorg Yeritsyan, a Jehovah’s Witness sentenced to 6 years and 2 months in prison at the end of June, declared in court  at the end of his trial: “Jehovah's Witnesses have faced persecution at different...
Human Rights

Hungary: EU’s Most Corrupt Nation Faces Scrutiny as it Takes the Presidency of the Council

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Budapest - Hungary remains the European Union’s most corrupt country, according to the 2023 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released last January by Transparency International. Despite some judicial reforms aimed at securing EU funds, systemic...
Human Rights

Belarus is not safe for anyone critical of authorities, warns rights expert

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In her final, annual report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Special Rapporteur on the rights situation in Belarus, Anaïs Marin, echoed wider, longstanding concerns from the UN and the international community about a...
FORB

FRANCE – I was a victim of a police raid and was abusively detained for two days and two nights

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Inappropriate and disproportionate use of massive police raids on several yoga centers and abusive detention of dozens of yoga practitioners. Still no progress in the judicial proceedings. “In the last ten years, I have been...
Europe

RUSSIA: Shootings in several cities of Dagestan, a synagogue and churches attacked

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At least 19 people were victims of an attack on police officers, Orthodox churches and synagogues in Dagestan Derbent and Makhachkala on Sunday evening. Five attackers were killed, the authorities said: two in Derbent...
Africa

Albino Children: Superstitions in Africa

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Being an albino child in Africa is like carrying a permanent tombstone on your shoulders. When they are born, they are usually, in many cases repudiated, in others sold to those who kill them...
Bahai

Ten women Iranian prisoners issue statement as #OurStoryIsOne marks one year

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GENEVA—18 June 2024— In a moving statement, 10 Iranian women imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison have honored 10 Iranian Baha’i women imprisoned four decades earlier, in Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz. The statement echoes the #OurStoryIsOne campaign,...
Human Rights

Global efforts to end female genital mutilation undermined by ‘vacation cutting’

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Although many States have intensified their efforts towards eradication, the practice continues across the world in part due to “the clandestine nature of cross-border and transnational FGM,” it said.“Female genital mutilation is part...
Editor's choice

Beware of the infiltration of pro-Putin journalists in the Brussels-EU Bubble 

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Researchers of the Brussels-based NGO Human Rights Without Frontiers (HRWF) have just discovered an infiltration attempt by a pro-Putin Ukrainian media activist in the Brussels-EU Bubble where he plans to spread false information about Russia’s war on Ukraine...
Human Rights

Stories from the UN Archive: Nigerian Nobel Laureate condemns online hate

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Human Rights

Gaza: Hamas, Israel committed war crimes, claims independent rights probe

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This was among the conclusions listed in the report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, released on Wednesday.“Amid months of losses and...
Human Rights

From AI to war zones, UN hosts largest global meeting on disability issues

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Welcome to this first ever guest-edited UN News live page. We’re reporting from the opening day of the 17th session of the Conference of States Parties (COSP17) to the game-changing Convention on the...
Human Rights

What’s going on at COSP17?

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They are gathering at the largest global disability rights-focused meeting, known as the 17th Conference of State Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, or COSP17, which runs from...
Human Rights

First Person: Guest editing UN News’s first live blog takeover

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That’s happening on the opening day of the 17th session of the Conference of States Parties (COSP17) to the game-changing Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, taking place from 11 to...
Human Rights

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: 5 fast facts

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The landmark legally binding treaty entered into force on 3 May 2008, marking a major milestone in the effort to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights for...
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