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Bangui, February 20, 2022.-A UN human rights expert today urged all necessary steps be taken to end impunity in the Central African Republic to ensure lasting peace in the country, and expressed the need to strengthen efforts to provide more holistic responses to victims. Following a seven-day official visit toContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 17,  2022.- The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has set up an ad hoc Conciliation Commission which will offer its good offices to both the State of Palestine and Israel with a view to resolving the dispute over allegations of racial discrimination amicably. Both IsraelContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 16, 2022.- UN human rights experts* today criticised an ongoing COVID-19 quarantine imposed on striking casino workers in Cambodia, saying authorities must not disguise a crackdown on peaceful and lawful labour action as a public health response. “There is a general inconsistency and lack of transparency in Cambodia’sContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 15, 2022.- Poland must investigate all allegations of harassment of human rights defenders, including media workers and interpreters, at the border with Belarus, and grant access to journalists and humanitarian workers to the border area ensuring that they can work freely and safely, UN human rights experts* saidContinuar Leyendo

Ginebra,  14 de Febrero de 2022.- El Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre Independencia de Magistrados y Abogados, Diego García-Sayán, a invitación del gobierno, realizará una visita oficial al Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia del 15 al 22 de febrero. El experto independiente abordará cuestiones relacionadas con la estructura, organizaciónContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 11, 2022.- On the 10th anniversary of the murder of prominent journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, UN human rights experts* have expressed their deep concern at the failure of the Bangladeshi authorities to complete an investigation and bring the perpetrators to justice. “A decade after the killingContinuar Leyendo

 The UN Child Rights Committee and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, today jointly call on Member States to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict (OPAC), to commit to endingContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 11, 2022.- Brazil must comply with its international obligations and reinforce its national prevention mechanisms against torture, experts from the UN torture prevention body said on conclusion to their visit to the country with the third largest prison population in the world. “We urge Brazil to drop itsContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 10, 2022.-  UN human rights experts* today urged Sweden not to issue a licence for an iron-ore mine in the Gaìllok region, home of the indigenous Saìmi people, saying the open-pit mine will generate vast amounts of pollution and toxic waste, and endanger the protected ecosystem including reindeerContinuar Leyendo

Geneva,  February 08,  2022.-  UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday urged the President of Tunisia to restore the High Judicial Council, warning that its dissolution would seriously undermine the rule of law, the separation of powers and independence of the judiciary in the country. The PresidentContinuar Leyendo