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Geneva, February 24, 2022.- France’s failure to repatriate French children who have been held in Syrian camps in life-threatening conditions for years violates their right to life, as well as their right to be free from inhuman and degrading treatment, the UN Child Rights Committee has found. The Child RightsContinuar Leyendo

Geneva/ New York, February 23, 2022.- Bilateral and multilateral development finance institutions (DFIs) should routinely plan to ensure the projects they finance do not harm people, and they and their clients should ensure effective remedy is readily available for any victims, the UN Human Rights Office said in a reportContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 23, 2022.-UN experts* today welcomed the cultural heritage status bestowed on Lima’s «El Ojo que Llora» (The Eye That Cries) monument, built in memory of the thousands of victims from Peru’s decades-long period of violence, and called on authorities to redouble efforts to protect the site along withContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 21, 2022.- Relentless misogynistic and sectarian attacks online against journalist Rana Ayyub must be promptly and thoroughly investigated by the Indian authorities and the judicial harassment against her brought to an end at once, UN human rights experts* said today. Independent investigative journalist and woman human rights defenderContinuar Leyendo

Bangui, February 20, 2022.-A UN human rights expert today urged all necessary steps be taken to end impunity in the Central African Republic to ensure lasting peace in the country, and expressed the need to strengthen efforts to provide more holistic responses to victims. Following a seven-day official visit toContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 17,  2022.- The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has set up an ad hoc Conciliation Commission which will offer its good offices to both the State of Palestine and Israel with a view to resolving the dispute over allegations of racial discrimination amicably. Both IsraelContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 16, 2022.- UN human rights experts* today criticised an ongoing COVID-19 quarantine imposed on striking casino workers in Cambodia, saying authorities must not disguise a crackdown on peaceful and lawful labour action as a public health response. “There is a general inconsistency and lack of transparency in Cambodia’sContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 15, 2022.- Poland must investigate all allegations of harassment of human rights defenders, including media workers and interpreters, at the border with Belarus, and grant access to journalists and humanitarian workers to the border area ensuring that they can work freely and safely, UN human rights experts* saidContinuar Leyendo

Ginebra,  14 de Febrero de 2022.- El Relator Especial de las Naciones Unidas sobre Independencia de Magistrados y Abogados, Diego García-Sayán, a invitación del gobierno, realizará una visita oficial al Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia del 15 al 22 de febrero. El experto independiente abordará cuestiones relacionadas con la estructura, organizaciónContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, February 11, 2022.- On the 10th anniversary of the murder of prominent journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, UN human rights experts* have expressed their deep concern at the failure of the Bangladeshi authorities to complete an investigation and bring the perpetrators to justice. “A decade after the killingContinuar Leyendo