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Six years on, still no justice for Myanmar’s Rohingya

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Friday, 25 August, marks the sixth anniversary of the start of a massive offensive by Myanmar’s military against the mainly Muslim minority in Rakhine state.Some 10,000 Rohingya men, women, children and newborns were...
Human Rights

Russia hits ‘new low’ with ban against discrediting army: Rights experts

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The law was adopted shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Special Rapporteurs said they had already raised serious concerns over the law with the Russian Government and through public statements.“The decision to deny...
Human Rights

Repel intensifying attacks on schools, urges Guterres

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Marking the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said it was important to defend “havens of education”.“Education is not only a fundamental human right, but a pathway to a...
Human Rights

Hundreds of thousands trafficked into online criminality across SE Asia

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OHCHR said that at least 120,000 people across Myanmar and another 100,000 in Cambodia may be held in situations where they are forced to execute lucrative online scams - from illegal gambling to...
Human Rights

UN expert urges immediate review of discredited UK sentencing scheme

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As of the end of 2022, close to 2,900 people were still being held under the scheme.Unresolved legacyBetween 2005 and 2012, English and Welsh courts used the IPP legislation to issue indeterminate sentences...
Human Rights

DR Congo: Few worse places to be a child warns UNICEF as twins found boobytrapped

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DR Congo has the highest tally of UN-verified grave violations against children in places experiencing armed conflict
Human Rights

Rights experts call for second UN Decade for People of African Descent

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They stressed that more than ever, the world urgently needs humanity to unite and collaborate in a spirit of equality and non-discrimination. “This demands political will to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination, inequality and...
Human Rights

Guterres calls for end to ‘atrocious crime’ of enforced disappearances

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Enforced disappearance has regularly been used as a tool for instilling fear and exert control over a population. The feeling of insecurity it generates is not limited to close relatives of the disappeared,...
Human Rights

Mexico: Rights experts ‘outraged’ over attacks on women activists

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“We are outraged that those searching for forcibly disappeared family members and loved ones continue to be targeted and face violence in Mexico,” they said in a statement, issued in the wake of two recent incidents.Brutal killing Human...
Human Rights

Refusal to waive IP rights for COVID-19 vaccines violates human rights: Experts

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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) adopted a decision under its “early warning and urgent action” procedures, stating that developed countries’ “persistent refusal” to waive COVID-19 vaccine IP rights...
Human Rights

Haiti violence: ‘Carnage needs to stop’ says UN relief chief

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The desperate situation prompted a tweet on Friday from Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths calling for an immediate end to the fighting.  “This carnage needs to stop” said the UN relief chief.Major escalationIn...
Human Rights

Iran: Draft hijab law tantamount to ‘gender apartheid’ say rights experts

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“The draft law could be described as a form of gender apartheid, as authorities appear to be governing through systemic discrimination with the intention of suppressing women and girls into total submission,” the...
Human Rights

UN expert sounds alarm over ‘contemporary forms of slavery’ in Canada

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Tomoya Obokata, the Human Rights Council-appointed Special Rapporteur on the global scourge of modern slavery issued his statement at the end of a 14-day visit.He called on the Canadian Government to intensify its efforts to...
Human Rights

Accountability key to Sri Lanka’s future: UN rights chief

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, stressed the urgency of addressing these challenges if the country is to move forward, recalling the 2022 anti-Government protests demanding a fairer and more inclusive...
Human Rights

People of African descent facing ‘immense challenges’ in public square

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It details how systemic racism, marginalization and exclusion, rooted in the legacies of enslavement and colonialism, continue to have a negative effect on all aspects of life.UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker...
Human Rights

Record civilian cluster munitions victims as experts urge global ban

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There has been a dramatic increase in the number of civilians killed by cluster munitions, according to new data released
Human Rights

Record numbers risking lives to cross dangerous Darien Gap

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So far this year, more than 330,000 people have crossed the Darien Gap on their journey towards North America risking their lives and facing horrific human rights abuses
Europe

Odesa Transfiguration Cathedral, international uproar about Putin’s missile strike (II)

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Bitter Winter (09.01.2023) - 23 July 2023 was a Black Sunday for the city of Odesa and for Ukraine. When Ukrainians and the rest of the world woke up, they discovered with horror and anger...
Health

Psychiatry and Pharmacocraczy, How Mental Illness Diagnoses Are Inflated

Juan Sanchez Gil -
Psychiatry - A recent article entitled "The shady business of mental illness: how the consumption of psychotropic drugs in the US has skyrocketed (El turbio negocio de las enfermedades mentales: así se disparó el...
Human Rights

Mexico: Rights experts ‘outraged’ over attacks on women activists

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The Government of Mexico is called upon to investigate and prosecute those who attack and kill women activists searching for their missing relatives.
Europe

Moscow’s deportation of 20,000 Ukrainian children to Russia, says a report filed with the UN

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Learn about the deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia and the efforts to bring them home. Read the report by Human Rights Without Frontiers.
Human Rights

109-year-old Tulsa Massacre survivor reflects on legacy of slavery in UN visit

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Viola Fletcher was just seven years old when she was forcibly displaced from her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, by an armed mob which destroyed the predominantly Black enclave of Greenwood, killing hundreds of residents. Together...
Asia
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2 minutes for believers of all faiths in prison in Russia

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At the end of July, the Court of Cassation upheld the 2 years and 6 months in prison sentence against Aleksandr Nikolaev. The court had found him guilty of participating in the activities of an extremist organization,...
Human Rights

‘Increasing militarisation’ of DPR Korea fuelling rise in human rights violations

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Briefing the UN Security Council, Volker Türk ran through a long list of rights abuses, saying that many “stem directly from, or support, the increasing militarisation of the DPRK."His argument was reinforced by...
Human Rights

UN rights chief calls for immediate restoration of constitutional order in Niger

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The UN rights chief expressed grave concerns for the people of Niger. “The people have already been through so much hardship over the years. Now, the very people who they elected to build...
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