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Geneva, Oct 09, 2024.- The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has renewed calls for Rwanda to reveal the fate and whereabouts of brothers Jean Nsengimana and Antoine Zihabamwe, who were taken off a bus by police in September 2019 and have not been seen or heard fromContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, October 01, 2024.- The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today published its findings on Albania, Cyprus, Honduras, Iceland, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi and Poland. The Committee examined the above seven countries during its latest session 9 to 27 September. The findings contain positive aspects of each country’s implementationContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 27 September, 2024.- Tackling insecurity in Haiti, where hundreds have been killed, injured, or displaced as a result of gang violence, must be the utmost priority, a UN report out today says, calling on the Haitian authorities and the international community to do more to protect people and preventContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 25 September, 2024.- A UN expert said today Kenyan and Pakistani authorities must step up efforts to fully investigate the killing of Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif in Kenya and prosecute those responsible, in line with a landmark ruling by a Kenyan court. “It is now almost two years sinceContinuar Leyendo

Geneva/Abuja, September 23, 2024.- The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) visited Nigeria for the second time from 8 to 19 September 2024 to assess the treatment of individuals in detention, and whether the country had strengthened its capacity to protect the human rights of people deprived of liberty,Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 17 September, 2024.- Enforced disappearances in an election context often serve as an exemplary punishment and create a climate of repression and a chilling effect on society, particularly on opponents, thus hindering participation in the electoral process, independent UN experts* said today. “The year 2024 is marked by anContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 17 September, 2024.- The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, today urged the release of all hostages in Gaza unconditionally and without delay. Edwards also deplored the recent killing of six Israeli hostages and called for an immediate end to hostilities on all fronts of this war.Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 16 September, 2024.- Aquatic ecosystems and the water we extract from them must be considered and managed in the public domain, as commons, accessible to all but not appropriable by anyone, an independent UN expert said today. In his report to the 57th UN Human Rights Council session, PedroContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 12 September, 2024.- Concerted efforts and urgent action by states is required to end the trafficking, proliferation and use of arms by mercenaries, mercenary-related, and private military and security actors, independent human rights experts said today. A report presented to the Human Rights Council by the Working Group onContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 10 September, 2024.- Observing an ever-increasing number of restrictions for women and girls, concerns around the situation of minorities and children, a shrinking civic space and a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, a UN independent expert said today that all tools should be used to stop the long and destructiveContinuar Leyendo