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Geneva, December 09, 2021.- Recent crises underline the urgent need to focus on the principles of non-discrimination, participation, empowerment and accountability, and particular attention should be paid to people in vulnerable situations, UN experts said in a statement marking Human Rights Day. The independent experts appointed by the Human RightsContinuar Leyendo

Ulaanbaatar, 8 December, 2021.- A UN human rights expert today commended Mongolia’s significant progress in passing legislation to combat gender-based violence against women, saying the challenge now was to ensure effective implementation of the laws throughout the country. In the past 10 years, key pieces of legislation on domestic violence,Continuar Leyendo

Tashkent, December 07, 2021.- A UN human rights expert today commended the Uzbekistan Government for the repatriation and reintegration of women and children from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, but recommended authorities substantially reform the country’s extremism and counter-terrorism laws. At the end of 10-day visit to the country addressing aContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, December 06, 2021.- UN human rights experts* hailed a landmark ruling in favour of a Salvadoran woman who died in custody after she was jailed following an obstetric emergency, saying the decision now consecrates standards to protect women seeking reproductive health care in Latin America. The Inter-American Court ofContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, December 6,  2021.- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday deplored the conviction and sentencing of Myanmar’s State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi to four years of imprisonment by a military-controlled court, and called for her release. In staging the coup on 1 February 2021, theContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, December 3, 2021.-  UN human rights experts* today expressed grave concern about the widespread sexual and gender-based violence committed against women and girls in the Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia by parties to the conflict. They reiterated the recommendations by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission-Office of theContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, December 2, 2021.- UN human rights experts* today called on Myanmar’s military chief to immediately halt ongoing forced evictions and home demolitions of informal settlements in Hlaing Thar Yar Township in the Yangon region, saying the army’s actions were illegal under international law. The experts said those already evictedContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, December  1,  2021.- UN human rights experts* today called on Egypt to halt the misuse of counter-terrorism measures against civil society activists, lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders, and to immediately release three of those arbitrarily detained, including Alaa Abdel-Fattah, Mohamed El-Baqer and Mohamed Ibrahim Radwan. “The systemic justificationContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, November 30, 2021.- The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will visit Argentina, Ecuador, Lebanon, Tukey and Tunisia in 2022. It will also hold high-level talks with the Brazilian authorities on the country’s torture preventive mechanism. “We are very pleased to be able to recommence our visits inContinuar Leyendo

Omicron and other new variants underline urgency to act. Geneva, November 29, 2021.-  UN human rights experts* today urged States to act decisively to ensure that all people have equal and universal access to COVID-19 vaccines, particularly those in low-income countries who have largely been left out of the globalContinuar Leyendo