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Geneva, 2 March, 2022.- UN human rights experts* have called for an immediate moratorium on the use of Sri Lanka’s Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), and urged the Government to substantively review and revise the legislation to comply with international human rights law. “There is a grave risk to theContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 1 March, 2022.- UN human rights experts* today expressed serious concerns about the deteriorating human rights situation in the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua, citing shocking abuses against indigenous Papuans, including child killings, disappearances, torture and mass displacement of people. The experts called for urgent humanitarian accessContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 28, 2022.- UN human rights experts* today urged Madagascar to take immediate action to protect people with albinism amid reports of ongoing attacks and killings in the country. “People with albinism are living in fear and will continue to be at risk of being attacked if urgent actionsContinuar Leyendo

Ginebra, 28 de Febrero de 2022.- La reciente decisión de un tribunal español de conceder la custodia de una niña de siete años a su padre, a pesar de las acusaciones de abusos sexuales que pesan sobre él, pone a la niña en grave peligro y parece ser un errorContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 24, 2022.- France’s failure to repatriate French children who have been held in Syrian camps in life-threatening conditions for years violates their right to life, as well as their right to be free from inhuman and degrading treatment, the UN Child Rights Committee has found. The Child RightsContinuar Leyendo

Geneva/ New York, February 23, 2022.- Bilateral and multilateral development finance institutions (DFIs) should routinely plan to ensure the projects they finance do not harm people, and they and their clients should ensure effective remedy is readily available for any victims, the UN Human Rights Office said in a reportContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 23, 2022.-UN experts* today welcomed the cultural heritage status bestowed on Lima’s «El Ojo que Llora» (The Eye That Cries) monument, built in memory of the thousands of victims from Peru’s decades-long period of violence, and called on authorities to redouble efforts to protect the site along withContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 21, 2022.- Relentless misogynistic and sectarian attacks online against journalist Rana Ayyub must be promptly and thoroughly investigated by the Indian authorities and the judicial harassment against her brought to an end at once, UN human rights experts* said today. Independent investigative journalist and woman human rights defenderContinuar Leyendo

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