Human Rigths (Page 55)

Geneva, 18 February, 2024.- UN experts* today urged the Ansar Allah or Houthi movement – de facto authorities in Sana’a and much of northern Yemen – to halt the imminent execution of human rights defender Fatima Saleh Al-Arwali, saying it would constitute an arbitrary execution and a flagrant violation ofContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 13 February, 2024.-Many Syrians who had fled the war face gross human rights violations and abuses upon their return to Syria, according to a report by the UN Human Rights Office released today. The documented violations and abuses have been perpetrated by the Government, de facto authorities and otherContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 9 February, 2024.- Israel’s apparent extrajudicial killings of three Palestinian men at the Ibn Sina hospital in the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank may amount to grave violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, UN experts* warned today. On 29 January, around 10Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 8 February, 2024.- The UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) today issued its findings on Bulgaria, Congo, Lithuania, the Russian Federation, Senegal and South Africa, after reviewing the six States parties during its latest session. The findings contain the Committee’s main concerns and recommendations on implementing the Child Rights ConventionContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 5 February, 2024.- The United States must protect judges’ free speech, particularly their commentary on important issues threatening judicial independence or affecting the administration of justice, a UN expert said today. The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, expressed serious concerns that JusticeContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 2 February, 2024.- UN experts* today expressed deep concern at numerous reports that scores of women and girls in Afghanistan have been arbitrarily detained and subjected to ill-treatment since early January for allegedly violating the Taliban’s dress code for women. “We urge the Taliban to cease all arbitrary deprivationContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 1 February, 2024.- Israel’s military operation in Gaza, in the aftermath of the heinous 7 October attack by Hamas, has become the deadliest, most dangerous conflict for journalists in recent history, UN experts said today. “We are alarmed at the extraordinarily high numbers of journalists and media workers whoContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 31 January, 2024.- The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Alice Jill Edwards, has written to authorities in China, to address claims that the evidence of a listed key prosecution witness in the trial of newspaper owner and editor Jimmy Lai had been obtained through torture. “I am deeply concernedContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 30 January 2024.- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today appealed for a significant increase in annual funding for his Office this year, warning it was still drastically short of funds needed to more effectively advance human rights globally. “We are living in profoundly divided times. ConflictContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 24 January,  2024.- UN experts* today hailed the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment that Greece had violated a Syrian refugee’s right to life when its coastguards shot at a vessel carrying migrants and asylum seekers in 2014. The shooting injured the Syrian refugee, who later died afterContinuar Leyendo