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Geneva, March 18, 2022.- The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Pedro Arrojo Agudo, has called for an end to the appropriation, pollution and overexploitation of groundwater to safeguard human rights to water and sanitation and mitigate social risks arising from climate change.Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, March 17, 2021.- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on the Government and legislators in the United Kingdom to ensure that the proposed Nationality and Borders Bill avoids undermining protection of human rights for refugees and other migrants. Among other provisions, the Bill asContinuar Leyendo

Geneva/New York, March 16, 2022.- The UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, and the UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten,Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, March 15, 2022.- The international community must take concerted, immediate measures to stem the spiral of violence in Myanmar, where the military has engaged in systematic and widespread human rights violations and abuses – some of which may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN High CommissionerContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, March 15, 2022.- A UN human rights expert today called on States to ensure that the post 9/11 legacy of secret detention, rendition and torture is not forgotten and its ongoing consequences are tackled head on. In a report to the Human Rights Council, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the SpecialContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, March 14, 2022.-UN human rights experts* today called on Bangladesh to immediately cease reprisals against human rights defenders and relatives of forcibly disappeared persons for their activism and co-operation with international human rights bodies and UN mechanisms. Following the announcement of sanctions imposed by the United States of AmericaContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, March 13, 2022.- The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, today urged States to find the political will to protect human rights defenders exposing corruption. “Corruption is fundamentally a human rights issue, and human rights defenders working to prevent it are targeted, evenContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 12 March 2022.- Russia’s recent adoption of a punitive “fake war news” law is an alarming move by the government to gag and blindfold an entire population, UN human rights experts* said today. On 4 March, the Russian Parliament adopted amendments to the criminal code introducing prison terms ofContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, March 11, 2022.- A UN expert today warned the Human Rights Council that governments in all regions of the world still routinely fail to implement the prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment. Taking stock during his sixth and final year as the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel,Continuar Leyendo

Geneva, March 10, 2022.- A UN human rights expert has expressed grave concern at the scale, severity and systematic nature of human rights violations perpetrated against religious and belief minorities in situations of conflict, in a report presented to the Human Rights Council today. “The most politically marginalized are particularlyContinuar Leyendo