Human Rigths (Page 100)

Bern, 26 January, 2022.- People of African descent in Switzerland experience racial discrimination in various aspects of their lives, UN human rights experts found after visiting the country. “Racial profiling and police controls of Black people humiliate, criminalize and stigmatize,” Dominique Day, head of the UN Working Group of ExpertsContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, JAN 27, 2022.- Today we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, a crime of shocking inhumanity that brutally murdered six million Jews, as well as Roma and Sinti people, Slavs, people with disabilities, LGBT people, prisoners of war and members of anti-Nazi networks from all over Europe. The UNContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, January 25, 2022.-  A UN human rights expert today expressed serious concerns for the welfare of close to 700 children held at Al-Sina’a/Ghuwayran prison in Al-Hasakeh in northeast Syria, the scene of a deadly ISIL jailbreak, and called on States to urgently repatriate all their children detained in theContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, January 21, 2022.- UN human rights experts* today raised serious concerns about the alleged forced labour of a group of approximately 400 Vietnamese migrant workers, who are reported to be victims of trafficking in Serbia. According to information received, eight companies, including Vietnamese labour recruitment agencies and Chinese constructionContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, January 21, 2022.- I warmly welcome the vote by Parliament in Papua New Guinea on 20 January to repeal the death penalty. There have been no executions in Papua New Guinea since 1954 and the death penalty was abolished in 1970. However, it was reinstated in 1991 and peopleContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, January 17, 2022.- Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human rights experts* said today. The experts reiterated their alarm expressed since August 2021 at a series of restrictive measures that have been introducedContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, January 14, 2022.- The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, today postponed his detention visit to Brian K. following the announcement by the Swiss authorities that he would be transferred “in the coming days” from Pöschwies high security prison to a different facility with a view to improvingContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, January 13, 2022.- UN human rights experts* expressed dismay at the decision by Iranian authorities to proceed with the execution of juvenile offender Hossein Shahbazi despite repeated calls to halt it. The execution of Mr. Shahbazi was scheduled to take place on 5 January 2022 but was temporarily halted.Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, January 11, 2022.- UN human rights experts* today called on the Kazakhstan authorities and security forces to halt their unrestrained use of force, including lethal force, against protesters and ensure that an independent and human-rights based investigations of State use of force against protesters is undertaken. The experts saidContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, January 05, 2022.- The arrest and detention of at least 29 casino union leaders and activists during a strike that began on New Year’s Eve in Cambodia may amount to a breach of human rights law, UN experts said today. “Many of the arrests of the mostly women strikersContinuar Leyendo