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UK: Keep calm and respect diversity, says UN expert

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“I am deeply concerned about increased bias-motivated incidents of harassment, threats, and violence against LGBT people, including a rampant surge in hate crimes in the UK,” said Victor Madrigal-Borloz, the human rights expert on...
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Russia must provide ‘urgent and comprehensive’ care to opposition leader Navalny: Rights experts

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Alice Edwards, who is officially known as the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, said she was “distressed by the deteriorating state of Mr. Navalny’s health and the apparent...
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1 in 3 children overweight in the European region: WHO report

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The WHO European Regional Obesity Report 2022, was launched by the spouses of 16 European leaders and Heads of State, in the Croatian capital. Childhood obesity data for WHO’s European Region, paints an alarming picture. Challenging environment “Our children are increasingly growing up...
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Sudan displacement doubles in one week, says IOM

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Speaking at a press briefing at the United Nations in Geneva, IOM’s spokesperson Paul Dillon said that according to IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix, more than 700,000 people were now internally displaced by the fighting,...
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Iran: Over 200 executed since January; Türk calls for end to death penalty

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More than 10 people are put to death each week in Iran, High Commissioner Türk said, making the country “one of the world’s highest executors”, with at least 209 people executed since the beginning...
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Haiti: International support needed now to stop spiralling gang violence

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In the month of April alone, more than 600 people were killed in violence in the country’s capital, according to information gathered by the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH). This follows the killing...
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One pregnant woman or newborn dies every 7 seconds: new UN report

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The report, Improving maternal and newborn health and survival and reducing stillbirth, assesses the latest data, which have similar risk factors and causes, and tracks the provision of critical health services. Overall, the report shows that progress in improving...
Human Rights

UN calls on Taliban to end corporal punishment in Afghanistan

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“Corporal punishment is a violation of the Convention against Torture and must cease,” said UNAMA’s human rights chief Fiona Frazer, stressing that the UN is “strongly opposed” to the death penalty. She called on the...
Human Rights

Mali: Ban slavery by law, say top rights experts

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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 specific legislation criminalizing enslavement. “Nothing...
Human Rights

Afghanistan: Women tell UN rights experts ‘we’re alive, but not living’

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“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 in Afghanistan is unparalleled...
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Keep Sudan borders open UNHCR urges, amid alarming rise in child deaths

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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 to Sudanese nationals, foreign nationals,...
Human Rights

USA: Slavery has left a deep and long-lasting legacy on the country, UN experts say

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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 various promising initiatives that...
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Human rights experts alarmed over ‘imminent executions’ in Saudi Arabia

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“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 Line,” the UN experts...
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Human rights ‘best antidote’ to advance peace, Security Council hears

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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 antidote to the inequalities, unaddressed...
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Israel: UN experts demand accountability over death of Palestinian hunger striker

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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 conditions” and in violation...
Europe

Religious discrimination and police violence… France criticized at the UN

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Several countries deplored on Monday religious discrimination and police violence during the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, May 1
Europe

Psychiatrists discuss how to reduce the use of coercive measures

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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 hot topic in professional...
Human Rights

Fragile gains on reducing child marriage, under threat from ‘polycrisis’: UNICEF

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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 End to Child Marriage...
Asia

Human rights scholars concerned about unsolved Tai Ji Men case

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European and US human rights academics concerned about post-authoritarian persecution and the Tai Ji Men Case INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY: Chen Chu acknowledges the importance of the issue and discusses Tai Ji Men case In the middle of last...
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Guterres convenes meeting in Doha to discuss key issues in Afghanistan

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The aim is to reinvigorate international engagement around key issues, such as human rights, in particular women’s and girls’ rights, inclusive governance, countering terrorism and drug trafficking. “The meeting is intended to achieve a common...
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The oldest convicted Nazi has died

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Schütz's name and date of birth were found in SS documents Former Nazi concentration camp warden Josef Schütz, who was imprisoned at a record age of 102 and sentenced last year, has died in Germany....
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INTERVIEW – Seeking justice for sexual abuse victims

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Critics have said justice takes too long, and perpetrators are not always held accountable in cases of sexual abuse and exploitation committed by UN personnel.
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Stop deporting Haitians: Rights experts’ appeal to countries in Americas

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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) sounded the alarm after 36,000 people of Haitian origin were deported during the first three months of the year, according to figures from the...
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Russia, Moscow City Court orders oppressive liquidation of human Rights NGO SOVA Center

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As reported by SOVA Center, the remaining most active human rights NGO in Russia, the Russian oppressive fist is now falling on them. We reproduce here the statement of SOVA: On April 27, 2023 Judge Vyacheslav Polyga of the Moscow City Court considered the request filed by Russia’s Ministry of Justice to liquidate the...
Asia

Singapore, Rights experts call for moratorium on the death penalty

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Experts appointed called for Singapore to impose an immediate moratorium on capital punishment, the Government’s continued use of the death penalty for drug-related crimes.
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