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Geneva, 20 May, 2025.- The Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, Astrid Puentes Riaño, today urged world leaders to anchor ocean policy in human rights. “Human rights cannot be an afterthought,” said Puentes Riaño, ahead of the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3)Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 19 May, 2025.- Two independent human rights experts on torture and indigenous peoples respectively* today sharply criticised state and territory youth justice systems in Australia, where disproportionately large numbers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children continue to be jailed. “The various criminal legal systems operating in Australia appearContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 18 May, 2025.- Laws curbing political participation recently adopted in Mali risk silencing dissenting voices in the country and could further deepen wider human rights concerns, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said today. The Transitional President on 13 May issued a decree dissolving all political parties and “organisationsContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 17 May, 2025.- The sharp escalation of attacks and killings this week in Gaza, including Israeli strikes on hospitals, are compounding the already desperate humanitarian situation amid signs of even worse to come, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said today. “This latest barrage of bombs, forcing people toContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 16 May, 2025.- Those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which killed 283 passengers and 15 crew members in July 2014 over eastern Ukraine must be brought to justice, UN experts said today, after a landmark decision by the council of the International Civil Aviation OrganizationContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 14 May, 2025.- A UN expert* today expressed serious concern over the conviction of 31-year-old journalist and woman human rights defender Rukhshona Khakimova, calling on the Government of Tajikistan to release her immediately and grant her a fair retrial in line with international standards. On 5 February 2025, theContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 13 May, 2025.- The deportation over recent months of large numbers of non-nationals from the United States of America, especially to countries other than those of their origin, raises a number of human rights concerns, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said on Tuesday. According to official US data,Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 11 May, 2025.- With food aid supplies now completely exhausted in Gaza and border crossings still sealed, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) today issued an urgent call for immediate humanitarian access and a lasting ceasefire, warning of catastrophic consequences for the civilian population. TheContinuar Leyendo

Amman, 11 May, 2025.- “Israel continues to inflict unimaginable suffering on the people living under its occupation, whilst rapidly expanding confiscation of land as part of its wider colonial aspirations. What we are witnessing could very well be another Nakba”, warned a UN Special Committee* as it concluded its annualContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 8 May, 2025.- A group of independent human rights experts* today strongly condemned the targeted attacks perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Zamzam and Abu Shuk camps in North Darfur. “We are gravely concerned by the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan, where relentless violence and targetedContinuar Leyendo