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Russia: Pattern of enforced disappearances of imprisoned dissident voices must end, says UN expert
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GENEVA (21 December 2023) – A UN expert has raised concerns about the enforced disappearance of Alexey Gorinov, after receiving information that his whereabouts and health condition have been unknown...
Russia “should immediately cease its use of force against Ukraine,” Türk declares
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Mr President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Peace is not a word that I hear very often these days. The situation in Ukraine has been added to a litany of continuous suffering, and the world’s...
Russia: Navalny's enforced disappearance raises grave concerns - UN expert
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GENEVA (18 December 2023) – A UN expert raised her concerns with the Russian authorities on Friday about the enforced disappearance of prominent Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, whose...
UN experts condemn Russian Supreme Court decision banning “LGBT movement” as “extremist”
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GENEVA (7 December 2023) – UN experts* today raised concerns about the dangerous precedent and far-reaching negative consequences of the Russian Supreme Court decision declaring the “international...
Russia: UN Human Rights Chief deplores Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw “LGBT movement”
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GENEVA (30 November 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday deplored the decision by Russia’s Supreme Court to label what it termed “the international LGBT movement” as...
ASG Brands Kehris briefs the Security Council on Ukraine
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Mr. President, Distinguished members of the Council, Precisely ten months ago, on 17 January, I briefed this Council as a representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on...
Russian Federation’s human rights record to be examined by Universal Periodic Review
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GENEVA (8 November 2023) – The human rights record of the Russian Federation will be examined by the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth...
Statement by Erik Møse, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, to the General Assembly Third Committee, New York
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Mr. Chair, Excellencies, This is the first time the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine makes an oral statement before the Third Committee. Last October, our first report to the...
Arrest warrants against ICC officials
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We are deeply concerned by recent arrest warrants against senior judges of the International Criminal Court by the Russian Federation, following earlier warrants against the Court’s Prosecutor and Pre...