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Heatwave threat impacts half of all children in Europe and Central Asia

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This is expected to rise to all children in 2050, according to Regina De Dominicis, UNICEF Regional Director Europe and Central Asia. She said countries there are feeling the heat of the climate crisis, and...
Human Rights

Cambodia: UN rights chief regrets ‘severely restricted’ poll and opposition clampdown

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In a news release issued by his Office, Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, denounced “constant shrinkage” in Cambodia’s democratic space in recent years, which he said is undermining citizen’s fundamental freedoms...
Human Rights

Türk calls on Israeli Government to ‘heed the calls of the people’ over judicial reform

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Volker Türk said he had been “following developments closely” in Israel, where parliamentarians supporting the hard-line nationalist Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu passed a bill on Monday which in effect strips the Supreme...
Human Rights

During visit to Greece, UN official calls for enhanced refugee protection

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During the visit, Ms. Triggs mentioned that one of the worst shipwrecks in the Mediterranean happened just over a month ago.  Protecting refugee rights  “The Pylos tragedy and the other devastating tragedies in the Mediterranean underscore...
Human Rights

Russia urged to free opposition leader Kara-Murza amid failing health

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Mr. Kara-Murza, 41, an outspoken critic of the Kremlin and the war in Ukraine, was arbitrarily arrested in Moscow on 11 April 2022. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison a year later on...
ENTERTAINMENT

Sound of Freedom, Liberating Innocence: A Heroic Journey Against Sex Trafficking

Juan Sanchez Gil -
"Sound of Freedom" is a 2023 movie based on the true story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent who quits his job to rescue children from global sex traffickers . The film...
Human Rights

Children forcibly separated from mothers at Syria’s Al Hol, warns top rights expert

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Fionnuala Ni Aolain, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, is the first independent rights expert to gain access to the infamous facilities Al...
Human Rights

Libya: Rights experts denounce discriminatory travel policy

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Under the policy, all women and girls are mandated to fill out a detailed form providing personal information, reasons and previous history of traveling without a male guardian. Those who refuse to complete or...
Human Rights

Winners of 2023 UN Human Rights Prize Announced

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Established by the General Assembly in 1966, the Prize was awarded for the first time in 1968 on what is now Human Rights Day, 10 December, and it is awarded every five years for achievements in the...
FORB

Sanction Persecutors of Falun Gong

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About Falun Gong // July 20 marks the anniversary of one of the bloodiest, and yet widely unacknowledged assaults on religious freedom in the contemporary world, medieval in its violence.  The terror continues and...
Human Rights

Unitaid: Close to a million deaths by 2035 if TB prevention is not acted on

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The UN agency insisted that implementing a combined strategy of identifying household contacts and providing TB preventive treatment is cost-effective.Unitaid said it could cut deaths by 35 per cent among household contacts of patients...
Human Rights

Health risks on the rise as heatwave intensifies across Europe: WMO

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In an alert, the agency emphasized that heatwaves are amongst the deadliest natural hazards and WMO Senior Heat Advisor, John Nairn, told reporters that extreme temperatures are poised to grow in frequency, duration and...
Human Rights

UK Bill ‘significantly erodes’ human rights and refugee protections, UN agencies warn

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Concerns over legislationThe Illegal Immigration Bill eliminates access to asylum for anyone who arrives “irregularly” in the UK, meaning they passed through a country – however briefly – where they did not face persecution....
Human Rights

UN celebrates Nelson Mandela, ‘a colossus of courage and conviction’

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The annual celebration pays tribute to Mr. Mandela’s 67 years of service to humanity as a human rights lawyer, prisoner of conscience, international peacemaker and the first democratically elected President of post-apartheid South Africa.Honour...
Human Rights

Tunisia: UN experts urge swift action to uphold migrants’ rights

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“Collective expulsions are prohibited under international law,” the UN experts warned in a statement.They emphasized that it is prohibition under international human rights law to deport migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers without conducting an individual...
Human Rights

Russia: UN rights experts call for release of journalist Evan Gershkovich

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Mariana Katzarova, Special Rapporteur on human rights in Russia and Irene Khan, Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, were responding to the 31-year-old United States citizen’s arrest and detention while...
Human Rights

Devastating rights violations against Indigenous people must end

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He was speaking in Geneva at the annual meeting on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, referencing in-depth conversations he had had in recent months with Indigenous representatives during missions to Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela and...
Human Rights

Global immunisation rates show sign of post-pandemic rebound

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Global immunisation services reached four million more children in 2022, compared with the previous year as countries increase efforts meant to combat the historic backsliding in immunisation triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.Millions missing outData...
Human Rights

Kenya: OHCHR ‘very concerned’ over disproportionate use of force against protesters

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The demonstrations began over what many Kenyans view as unfair tax hikes and rising inflation in the country, according to news reports.OHCHR Spokesperson Jeremy Laurance issued a statement condemning the violence, expressing concern over “allegations...
Human Rights

Sudan: UN rights chief calls for probe after 87 bodies found in mass grave

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The victims, who included members of the Masalit ethnic community, were allegedly killed last month by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militia, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said, citing credible information. Local...
Human Rights

Ending AIDS by 2030 a ‘political and financial choice’

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That’s the message from UNAIDS, the UN agency dedicated to ending the epidemic, which said on Thursday that truly eradicating it boils down to a “political and financial choice”. The agency’s Executive Director, Winnie Byanyima,...
Human Rights

Ethiopia: Rights experts denounce mass deportation of Eritreans

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According to the experts, hundreds of Eritreans were also subjected to summary deportations at the end of June.“Collective expulsions are prohibited under international law,” the experts, including Mohamed Babiker, Special Rapporteur on the situation...
Human Rights

Rights experts urge Uruguay to prioritise water use for human consumption

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“The continuous decline in water quality due to increased salinity levels in its composition is alarming. This situation significantly impacts vulnerable groups, such as children and adolescents, pregnant women and people suffering from chronic...
Africa

Scientology & Human Rights, raising up the next generation at the UN

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Global youth activism for human rights receives recognition as Scientology's Human Rights Office commends Youth for Human Rights Summit. EINPresswire.com/ BRUSSELS-NEW YORK, BRUSSELS-NEW YORK, BELGIUM-USA, July 13, 2023. / The Human Rights Office of the Church of Scientology International...
Europe

Should taxpayers’ money in Belgium go to suspicious anti-cults outfits?

Willy Fautre -
HRWF (12.07.2023) – On June 26, the Federal Observatory on Cults (CIAOSN / IACSSO), officially known as the “Center for Information and Advice on Harmful Cultic Organizations” and created by the law of June 2,...
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