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Geneva, August 17, 2021.- A UN human rights expert today warned of a “cultural disaster” in Afghanistan after Kabul fell to Taliban forces, and urged States to provide urgent assistance to human rights defenders, including those working on women’s and cultural rights, as well as artists, trying to flee theContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, August 13, 2021.- UN human rights experts* have called on the Government of Israel to immediately return confidential documents and office equipment that its military seized from the offices of Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCIP) in Al-Bireh, in the occupied West Bank. “We are deeply concerned by the IsraeliContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, August 12, 2021.- UN human rights experts* urged Ghana’s Government to reject a proposed ‘family values’ bill, saying it seeks to establish a system of State-sponsored discrimination and violence against the LGBTI community. The first reading of the bill took place on 2 August 2021, and its consideration isContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, August 12, 2021.- UN human rights experts* today called on all States to impose a global moratorium on the sale and transfer of surveillance technology until they have put in place robust regulations that guarantee its use in compliance with international human rights standards. “It is highly dangerous andContinuar Leyendo

Ministro en visita sometió a proceso al empresario Patricio Altamirano Ortúzar, por su responsabilidad en el delito de secuestro calificado de los dirigentes sindicales Augusto Andino Alcayaga Aldunate, José Rosa Devia Devia, José Maldonado Fuentes, Miguel Alberto Fernández Cuevas, Juan Dagoberto Fernández y Francisco Flores Flores. Ilícitos perpetrados en septiembreContinuar Leyendo

Geneva,  August 11, 2021.- Many people around the world are being denied the right to development – both their countries’ economic improvement and their own personal development – because of unilateral coercive measures, independent experts appointed by the Human Rights Council said today. The experts called on countries that imposeContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 11 August, 2021.- A UN expert today expressed concern over arrests, harassment, criminalisation and threats against human rights defenders in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, and called on Israel to make sure all Palestinian human rights defenders are protected. “Arrests and raids on the homes of Palestinian humanContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, August 11,  2021.- Armenia must stop intimidating human rights defender Sashik Sultanyan, founder of the Yezidi Center for Human Rights, who faces criminal charges for speaking out in support of minority rights, UN human rights experts* said today. The experts called on Armenia to drop charges against Mr. Sultanyan,Continuar Leyendo

Bamako, August 06,  2021.- Violence is spreading so rapidly across Mali that it threatens the very survival of the state, the United Nations expert on human rights in the country said at the end of an 11-day official visit where he heard about an increase in extrajudicial executions, other killings,Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, August 06, 2021.- Eritrean refugees trapped in the midst of the armed conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are being targeted by both sides to the conflict, a UN expert warned today, calling on all parties to take measures to protect refugees in accordance with international human rights and humanitarianContinuar Leyendo