San José, 25 de Noviembre del 2022.- Un experto de la ONU acogió hoy con satisfacción las medidas adoptadas por Costa Rica para eliminar las formas contemporáneas de la esclavitud, pero instó al gobierno y a las empresas a hacer más para garantizar que los grupos marginados no sean explotados.Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 25 November, 2022.- The UN Human Rights Committee expressed profound regret over the Republic of Belarus’ denunciation of the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, thirty years after its accession. The Committee said Minsk’s recent decision to withdraw from the Optional Protocol willContinuar Leyendo

Geneva,  25 November,  2022.- The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) on Friday issued its findings on Australia, Chad, El Salvador, Malawi, Somalia and Uganda after reviewing the States parties in the latest session, as well as the final version of the concluding observations on Nicaragua provisionally adopted during its previousContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 25 November, 2022.- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday expressed his shock at the unabated human suffering in Ukraine, as highlighted by continuing Russian missile and drone strikes against critical infrastructure on a broad scale, and recent allegations of summary executions of prisoners of warContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 24 November, 2022.- The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) called on Iraq to take urgent action to include enforced disappearance as an autonomous offence in national legislation, stressing that the process cannot be further postponed. “The absence of an explicit definition in the domestic legislation of enforced disappearanceContinuar Leyendo