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New York, 17 October, 2025.- Environmental impact assessments are a vital tool to prevent environmental, social, and human rights impacts from projects or activities, but they are being ignored or weakened in many countries globally under the pretext of increasing investment, and causing the opposite effect, a UN expert warnedContinuar Leyendo

New York, 17 October, 2025.- Human rights are vital to ensuring that the energy transition benefits both people and the planet, the Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change, Elisa Morgera said in her latest report to the UN General Assembly, urging States to act to address inequities inContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 16 October, 2025.- A handful of powerful corporations now control vast portions of global agricultural production, input markets and food supply chains, a concentration of power that undermines the autonomy of small-scale farmers, exacerbates inequality and endangers the ecological foundations of our food systems, UN experts* warned today. InContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 15 October, 2025.- UN experts* today called on authorities of Azerbaijan to release two researchers, Igbal Abilov and Bahruz Samadov, who have been held in detention for over a year on charges related to their academic work, peaceful criticism of government policies, and advocacy for minority rights and peace.Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 13 October, 2025.- New restrictions on internet access and social media channels in Afghanistan are a violation of the rights of Afghans, UN experts warned* today, a week after the Taliban lifted a nationwide telecommunications shutdown they had imposed earlier. “These new restrictions, although more filtered than blanket atContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 11 October,  2025.- A UN expert today called for the recognition of surrogacy as a system of violence, exploitation and abuse against women, and called for the practice to be abolished globally. “Surrogacy reduces women and children including girls to mere commodities, stripping them of their equality and dignityContinuar Leyendo

Beirut, 10 October, 2025.- The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, today expressed his solidarity with survivors and the families of those killed in Lebanon, amid the widespread destruction, loss of life and civilian suffering resulting from hostilities by Israel. “Every potentially unlawful death mustContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 08 October, 2025.- Israel must guarantee the safety and human rights of all individuals aboard the Conscience and other vessels of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition intercepted this morning, a UN expert said today. “This attack against unarmed civilians on the high seas is yet another violation of international lawContinuar Leyendo

Ginebra, 06 de Octubre de 2025.- Expertas de la ONU* instaron hoy a las autoridades nicaragüenses a esclarecer la suerte y el paradero de más de 120 personas que han sido víctimas de desaparición forzada en el país, incluidas aquellas detenidas en relación con la crisis de derechos humanos deContinuar Leyendo