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Torture as a weapon of war must cease, rights experts demand

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Today, more than 100 armed conflicts are raging worldwide, devastating communities, winding back development, and leading to grave violations of human rights. Ranging from severe beatings to sexual humiliation and rape, torture is widely used...
Human Rights

Security in eastern DR Congo continues to worsen, Security Council hears

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"So far, the ceasefire between the M23 and the FARDC has held up relatively well and has contributed to some security gains”, said UN Assistant Secretary-General for Africa Martha Pobee. “The relative calm in Rutshuru territory,...
Asia

To rebel against injustice… Harfouch receives great support from the French Foreign Affairs Committee member at the Senat

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In an extraordinary meeting organized by the “International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism” (LICRA), and a member of the French Senate Nathalie Goulet, a number of prominent personalities met with the Leader of the...
Human Rights

Sudan: OHCHR calls for ‘urgent action’ to end militia attacks on people fleeing El Geneina

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The explosion of ethnic violence in Darfur largely by nomadic “Arab” groups in alliance with the RSF who have been battling national army forces for control of the country since mid-April, has led tens...
Africa

AIDO network issues declaration of Mombasa on Human Rights

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PRESS RELEASE - Mombasa / AIDO Network International, with its head office in London and chapters in Europe, Africa, and the Americas held its 5th International Convention in Mombasa, Kenya. Human rights issues were...
Human Rights

Tunisia must ‘change course’ amid media crackdown: UN rights chief

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“It is troubling to see Tunisia, a country that once held so much hope, regressing and losing the human rights gains of the last decade,” Mr. Türk said, urging the country to “change course”.The...
Human Rights

Killings drive Israelis and Palestinians ‘deeper into an abyss’, warns Türk

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“These latest killings and the violence, along with the inflammatory rhetoric, serve only to drive Israelis and Palestinians deeper into an abyss,” said the High Commissioner for Human Rights, as his Office warned of the...
Human Rights

Urgent reform needed to shield women and children from violence during custody battles

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“The tendency of family courts to dismiss the history of domestic violence and abuse in custody cases, especially where mothers and/or children have brought forward credible allegations of domestic abuse, including coercive control, physical...
America

Argentina, 9 women sue a state institution abusively calling them ‘victims of sexual abuse’

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Five women older than 50, three in their forties and one in mid-thirties are suing on appeal two prosecutors of the state agency PROTEX on unfounded claims of their being victims of sexual abuse...
Europe

Giorgia Meloni, “Religious freedom is not a second-class right”

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Religious Freedom / Freedom of Religion or Belief / Good morning to all. I greet and thank "Aid to the Church in Need" for the extraordinary work it has carried out since 1947 and for...
Human Rights

Health data, women’s and LGBT rights in spotlight at Human Rights Council

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The Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, warned that technology enabled easy sharing of sensitive health data of adolescents, migrants and people whose sexual orientation or health status was subject to discrimination.“Accessibility...
Asia

Record executions, large-scale arrests and detentions: New Iran human rights report

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“The overall human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran has markedly deteriorated against the backdrop of continuously worsening socio-economic conditions, aggravated by sanctions and the lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Nada...
Human Rights

Afghanistan mission chief to Taliban: Bans on women and girls cost you legitimacy at home and abroad

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UN Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva was briefing the Security Council on the dire situation facing the country and the international aid effort, with UN women workers among those now prevented by Taliban edicts from working.“We...
Human Rights

Israel-Palestine: UN envoy ‘deeply alarmed by continuing cycle of violence’

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Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland was reacting on Twitter to the news of a shooting attack reportedly by two Palestinian gunmen, who opened fire at a petrol station on...
Human Rights

‘Vital’ human rights cooperation must be above fray of politics: Türk

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In his annual review presented to the Human Rights Council, which opened its 53rd regular session on Monday, Mr. Türk insisted that such cooperation was “vital” in a world plagued by conflict, climate disasters and...
Human Rights

Afghanistan: Taliban ‘may be responsible for gender apartheid’ says rights expert

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Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed similar concerns on the opening day of the Council’s summer session, adding that the de facto authorities had “dismantled the most fundamental principles of human...
Human Rights

Combatting hate speech is a shared responsibility: UN General Assembly President

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Mr. Kőrösi was speaking at an event to commemorate the 2nd International Day for Countering Hate Speech, which is officially observed on 18 June. “It would be my wish that we would not have to observe this day. It would...
Human Rights

End ‘digital divide’ to support victims of sexual violence: Guterres

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In his message marking the day, the Secretary-General condemned the use of sexual violence as a tactic of ‘war, torture, and repression’ in the conflicts that affect hundreds of millions of people around the...
Human Rights

We must work together to reign in ‘toxic and destructive’ hate speech

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Hate speech reinforces discrimination and stigma and is most often aimed at women, refugees and migrants, and minorities. If left unchecked, it can even harm peace and development, as it lays the ground for...
Ahmadiyya

UK Bar Council raises concern over treatment of Ahmadi Muslim lawyers in Pakistan

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The Bar Council is profoundly concerned by recent announcements in parts of Pakistan that Ahmadi Muslims lawyers must renounce their religion in order to practise at the Bar. Both the District Bar Association of...
Health

The electric chair, psychiatric electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and the death penalty

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On 6 August 1890, a form of execution called the electric chair was used for the first time in the United States. The first person executed was William Kemmler. Nine years later, in 1899,...
Human Rights

Mediterranean migrant shipwreck: Swift action needed to prevent new tragedy

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Duty to rescue people in distressIn a joint statement, refugee agency UNHCR and migration agency IOM, said that the duty to rescue people in distress at sea without delay was a “fundamental” rule of...
Human Rights

Türk calls for action to enable ‘equal and meaningful’ participation of women in public life

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“Patriarchy must be a thing of the past. Our future depends on women and girls being at the table everywhere when decisions are made,” said Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.Only...
Human Rights

First Person: ‘We want to be included’

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Nicholas Herd is a campaigner for L’Arche Canada, part of international non-profit organization working towards the inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities.He is participating in the UN Conference of States Parties to the Convention on...
Human Rights

‘Inclusion is strength’ stresses UN, marking Albinism Awareness Day

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Persons with the condition – which is caused by a lack of melanin pigmentation, affecting skin, hair and eye colour - continue to face an uphill battle to attain a life with dignity and...
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