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Geneva, 30 November, 2022.- UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor will assess the situation of human rights defenders in Tajikistan during an official visit to the country from today, 28 November to 9 December 2022. The visit will provide an opportunity to discuss the situation of human rights defenders and keyContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 29 November, 2022.- The UN Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights, Marcos Orellana, will visit Ghana from 30 November to 13 December 2022 to assess the country’s human rights situation in relation to toxics and hazardous substances. The Special Rapporteur will visit at the invitation of the Government.Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 29 November, 2022.- The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) and the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) have jointly decided to take action in response to Nicaragua’s refusal to cooperate with the two UN bodies in tackling and preventing torture in the country. «This is the first time theContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 29 November, 2022.- UN experts* today welcomed the adoption of a resolution presented by the African group, calling on Member states to lay the groundwork for a new UN convention on tax that would give low-and middle-income countries decision-making power over global tax affairs. The resolution adopted at theContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 28 November, 2022.- The UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, Alexandra Xanthaki, will make an official visit to Germany from today, 28 November, to 9 December. Xanthaki will examine the right of all to participate in the cultural life of their choice and to freely expressContinuar Leyendo

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