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
El Consejo se inclinó por el secretario ejecutivo de FASIC debido a su labor en defensa de la memoria, la búsqueda de verdad y justicia, la reparación y las medidas de no repetición para las víctimas de la dictadura. Enterado de la noticia, González señaló que “este es un reconocimientoContinuar Leyendo
Geneva, 8 July ,2024.- The sentencing of 10 environmental activists in Cambodia points to a sustained pattern of intolerance towards human rights defenders engaged in legitimate work to protect and promote human rights in the country, a group of independent experts* said today. “We are alarmed by these convictions, whichContinuar Leyendo
Geneva, 7 July 2024.- UN experts* said today they are alarmed by reports of widespread trafficking in persons, particularly for sexual slavery and exploitation, and rising child and forced marriages stemming from conflict and displacement in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. “We are appalled by the numbers reported, at leastContinuar Leyendo
