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Geneva/Santiago, 3 February, 2023.- The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances will hold its 129th session from 6 to 10 February 2023 in Santiago de Chile to examine 586 cases from 22 countries. The Working Group expresses gratitude to the Government of Chile for its willingness to hostContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 1 February, 2023.- The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, will undertake a technical visit to the United States commencing 6 February 2023. Between 6 and 14 February, the independent expert will visit Washington D.C.Continuar Leyendo

Geneva / New York, 31 January, 2023.- Myanmar’s junta—the State Administration Council (SAC)—is illegal and illegitimate, the UN human rights expert on Myanmar said today. He called for the international community to deny the SAC legitimacy, create a coalition of member states to enforce strong, coordinated sanctions against the SAC,Continuar Leyendo

Dhaka/Geneva, 31 January, 2023.- Bangladesh must step up efforts to strengthen regulation of the migrant recruitment system to protect migrant workers against exploitation and abuses, a UN expert* said today. “Recruitment currently imposes exorbitant high costs on many migrants, creating debt bondage, much of which are imposed by “middlemen” whoContinuar Leyendo

Khartoum, 29 January, 2023.- The new UN expert on human rights in Sudan, Radhouane Nouicer, will arrive in Khartoum on 28 January for his first official visit to the country his appointment in December. He will also travel to Al-Geneina in West Darfur. During this visit, which will end onContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 27 January, 2023.- Two years after the Myanmar military launched a coup against the democratically-elected government, the country has sunk deeper than ever into crisis and has undergone a wholesale regression in human rights, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said today. “By nearly every feasible measurement, and inContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 28 January,  2023.- UN experts* today condemned renewed Israeli attacks against the Jenin Refugee Camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that killed at least nine Palestinians, and urged the international community to react without delay to stop the violence and ensure accountability. “We deplore the Israeli army’sContinuar Leyendo

London/Geneva, 27 January, 2023.-Racism in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is structural, institutional and systemic, UN experts* said today, warning that people of African descent in the country continue to encounter racial discrimination and erosion of their fundamental rights. “We have serious concerns about impunity andContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 27 January, 2023.- UN experts* today expressed alarm over the escalating crackdown against civil society by Russian authorities after the decision by the Moscow city court this week to liquidate Moscow Helsinki Group, a prominent human rights organisation. “The authorities must immediately halt all acts of repression, judicial harassmentContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 27 January, 2023.- UN and African Union experts* today condemned the killing of human rights defender and lawyer Thulani Maseko in Eswatini as “abhorrent” and demanded an impartial investigation into his death. “This is a tragedy. Thulani was an advocate for justice and human rights. His killing is aContinuar Leyendo