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Geneva, 30 April, 2024.- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday said he was troubled by a series of heavy-handed steps taken to disperse and dismantle protests across university campuses in the United States of America. “Freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly are fundamentalContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 27 April, 2024.- The vote by Kiribati’s Parliament to remove High Court judge David Lambourne is a major setback for justice and rule of law, said Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers Margaret Satterthwaite today. “Judge Lambourne was removed after proceedings that violated international standards”, sheContinuar Leyendo

Male, 25 April, 2024.- Maldives faces a potentially dystopian future because of a climate change emergency caused by wealthy nations and wealthy individuals, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment, David R. Boyd said today. “Scattered like sparkling jewels across a vast swath of the Indian Ocean,Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 24 April. 2024.- Albania must make additional efforts to combat overcrowding by reducing pre-trial detention, UN torture prevention experts said after their first visit to the country. They also stressed the need to ensure access to quality healthcare in detention. “The high number of pre-trial detainees is concerning. StepsContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 24 April, 2024.- Tanzania’s failure to condemn and investigate attacks against people with albinism may constitute serious violations of its obligation to protect people with disabilities, UN experts said. The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) expressed deep regret today for Tanzania’s unwillingness to followContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 22 April, 2024.- Afghan human rights defender Ahmad Fahim Azimi must be immediately released from prison, where he has been detained for more than six months by Afghanistan’s de facto authorities, UN experts* said today. A human rights and girls’ education advocate, Azimi is the head of the BetterContinuar Leyendo

Sarajevo, 22 April, 2024.- The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, today called for immediate action to reverse the deterioration of civic space and social cohesion, and the weakening of democratic institutions. “Since the end of the 1992-1995 conflictContinuar Leyendo

Maseru, 19 April, 2024.- A UN expert today urged the Lesotho authorities to prioritise removing barriers to the enjoyment of rights by persons with albinism, saying it would vastly improve their lives. “Concrete measures focused on the specific needs of persons with albinism can have far-reaching impacts including on qualityContinuar Leyendo

Brasilia, 19 April, 2024.- Brazil needs to prioritise the demarcation and titling of land – the root cause of most attacks against human rights defenders in the country, a UN expert said today. “Human rights defenders are under extreme threat in Brazil. The Federal Government knows this but has soContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 17 April 2024.- UN experts* today called for the protection of justice operators in Israel and condemned the destruction of judicial infrastructure in Gaza. The experts deplored reports that on 9 October 2023 the Israeli army bombed the building which housed the local headquarters of the Palestine Bar Association,Continuar Leyendo