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Geneva, 24 June, 2025.- There is an urgency to facilitate the participation of Indigenous Peoples in the articulation of peaceful dispute resolution instead of excluding them from negotiations, a UN expert said today. “With increased polarisation, fragmentation, and violence threatening global democracy the inclusion of Indigenous Peoples as important internationalContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 23 June, 2025.- A UN expert said today that a lack of political will to take effective action against trafficking in persons, to ensure efficient application and enforcement of labour laws, and create safe, regular migration pathways, contributes to impunity, resulting in a protection gap within which rights violationsContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 22 June, 2025.- States must urgently step up efforts to prevent the disappearance including enforced disappearance of migrants, a UN expert told the Human Rights Council today. “The disappearance of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers is a largely neglected human rights challenge,” said Gehad Madi, the Special Rapporteur onContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 20 June, 2025.- UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned today of the disastrous consequences stemming from ongoing and escalating hostilities across the North Darfur and Kordofan regions in Sudan, where civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting have been reported in multiple areas. “The recent fighting and graveContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 19 June, 2025.- States must stop targeting and killing health and care workers, and immediately release all healthworkers being detained, harassed and tortured, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Tlaleng Mofokeng said today. In her fifth report to the Human Rights Council, Mofokeng focused on healthContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 18 June, 2025.- The global decline in freedom of expression is endangering free and fair elections and must be reversed for the sake of democracy as well as human rights, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, Irene Khan, said today, presenting her latest report toContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 18 June, 2025.- The rights of families of victims of unlawful killings globally are frequently overlooked and often continue to face insurmountable challenges, a UN expert warned today. “There are abundant provisions in international and regional human rights instruments which provide for robust protection for the families of personsContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 17 June,  2025.- UN experts* today welcomed a decision by the United Kingdom to repeal the Vagrancy Act, a law that has long criminalised homelessness and rough sleeping in England and Wales, by Spring 2026. “This is a long overdue, highly commendable step,” the experts said. “The decision toContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 13 June, 2025.- UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said today that the human rights crisis in Haiti has plummeted to a new low, with gangs extending their reach beyond Port-au-Prince and into the central regions of the country, carrying out killings, rapes and kidnappings. A record 1.3 millionContinuar Leyendo

Palikir, 13 June, 2025.- The UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Alexandra Xanthaki said today that the traditions and cultural practices of the Federated States of Micronesia are the heart of its social fabric, and encouraged the National Government to use human rights, including cultural rights, toContinuar Leyendo