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Geneva, 3 November, 2022.- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today warned that unremitting armed violence has precipitated Haiti’s descent into the worst human rights and humanitarian situation in decades. Urgent solutions to this “protracted, multifaceted crisis» must be found, he stressed. “People are being killed by firearms,Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 2 November, 2022.- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Wednesday welcomed the conviction and sentencing of three members of the Retour, Réclamation et Réhabilitation (3R) armed group for crimes against humanity and war crimes for their roles in a massacre of 46 civilians in 2019 andContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 2 November, 2022.- It is no exaggeration to say that our right to life is being threatened by insufficient action in the face of the climate emergency, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Wednesday, as he issued an open letter calling for human rights toContinuar Leyendo

New York, 30 October, 2022.- A UN expert said today that despite the international consensus that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated existing fragilities within food systems, there remains no multilateral response to the crisis. “The problem is not lack of solutions,” said Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur onContinuar Leyendo

New York, 29 October, 2022.- Faced with multiple and compounding crises, governments must embrace and enable social movements as essential partners as they ‘build back better’, a UN expert said today. “In a time of unprecedented global crisis, the world needs new approaches and more inclusive governance,” said Clément Voule,Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, 28 October, 2022.- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday commended an important advance towards accountability for gross human rights violations in Kenya, following the decision to charge senior police officers with murder, rape and torture as crimes against humanity in the context of the 2017Continuar Leyendo

New York, 27 October, 2022.- Israel’s occupation is illegal and indistinguishable from settler-colonialism, which must end as a pre-condition for the Palestinians to exercise their right to self-determination, the UN’s independent expert on the occupied Palestinian territory said today. “For over 55 years, the Israeli military occupation has prevented theContinuar Leyendo

New York, 26 October, 2022.- A UN expert today called for the prompt establishment of an independent investigative mechanism into all human rights violations leading up to and since the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, who died in hospital after being arrested by the morality police. The UN Special RapporteurContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 26 October, 2022.- UN human rights experts* condemned the killings and the crackdown by security forces in Iran on protesters following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, including alleged arbitrary arrests and detentions, gender-based and sexual violence, excessive use of force, torture, and enforced disappearances. They urged that theContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 25 October, 2022.- UN human rights experts* today demanded effective accountability for the year-long brutal crackdown on peaceful protests against the October 2021 military coup in Sudan. To break the country’s cycle of turmoil, they also called for an independent accountability and transitional justice mechanism with a mandate toContinuar Leyendo