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Luanda, 17 July, 2024.- Angola has achieved relative political stability following a 27-year civil war that ended in 2002, but the country continues to grapple with socio-economic fragility exacerbated by issues including illicit financial flows and corruption, significantly impacting national revenue, an independent expert said today. “Angola’s dependency on itsContinuar Leyendo

Washington, July 17, 2024.- Today, the Department of Defense has moved to rectify an old injustice—and face up to a painful episode in our own history. I applaud the Secretary of the Navy’s decision to exonerate 258 Black Sailors who were unjustly court-martialed in the wake of the devastating explosionContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 17 July, 2024.- Independent human rights experts* and international and regional expert mechanisms on ending discrimination and gender-based violence against women and girls said the National Assembly of The Gambia’s rejection of a bill seeking to lift the ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) has avoided a dangerous precedentContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 16 July, 2024.- The use of forced labour by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) against its citizens has become deeply institutionalised and raises a broad range of serious human rights concerns, according to a report by the UN Human Rights Office released today. The report is basedContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 15 July, 2024.- The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) on Monday called on all States parties to the Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) to respect its comprehensive definition of places of deprivation of liberty, thus ensuring that the SPT and related national bodies canContinuar Leyendo

Tirana, 13 July, 2024.- The Government of Albania has established a solid infrastructure to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity but needs to do more to ensure that laws and policies are implemented and aligned with the lived realities of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people,Continuar Leyendo

Geneva/Nairobi, July 12, 2024.- Radhouane Nouicer, the Designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has sounded the alarm about the dire human rights situation in the country as the fighting spreads to new areas. “Since the start of this senseless conflict last year, the civilianContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 11 July, 2024.- A human rights expert today called on the Brazilian Supreme Court and Senate to secure the rights of Indigenous Peoples to lands, territories and natural resources and suspend applicability of a constitutionally challenged law that risks depriving or evicting them from traditional lands. The UN SpecialContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 10 July, 2024.-– Independent human rights experts* today welcomed the decision by the newly elected UK Government to scrap the policy to transfer asylum seekers who meet certain conditions to Rwanda for asylum processing. “We are encouraged to learn that the UK plans to reassume State responsibility for receivingContinuar Leyendo