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UN Human Rights Chief to visit Ukraine, 4-7 December

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30 Nov 2022

GENEVA/KYIV (30 November 2022) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Sunday begins a four-day official visit to Ukraine, at the invitation of the Government. During his visit, the...

UN Fact-Finding Mission on Libya concludes fifth investigative mission

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30 Nov 2022

GENEVA/TUNIS (30 November 2022) – The UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya has concluded its fifth investigative mission to the country, an extended field visit to Tripoli which took place...

UN Forum on Minority Issues session 1-2 December

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30 Nov 2022

GENEVA (30 November 2022) – The UN Forum on Minority Issues convenes for two days from 1 December, with this year’s theme Review. Rethink. Reform. 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Minority...

The report of the UN Secretary-General on terrorist attacks on the basis of xenophobia, racism and other forms of intolerance, or in the name of religion and belief

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30 Nov 2022

ASG keynote address Excellencies, Distinguished guests. I would like to thank the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism for the invitation to address this high level event. Our Office very much welcomes this...

Peru: UN expert’s visit to focus on safe drinking water and sanitation

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29 Nov 2022

GENEVA (29 November 2022) -- The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, will visit the Republic of Peru from 1 to 15 December 2022. The...

Nicaragua: Two UN rights committees deplore refusal to cooperate and lack of information

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29 Nov 2022

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...

UN expert to visit Morocco to assess the impact of poverty on human rights

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29 Nov 2022

GENEVA (29 November 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, will visit Morocco from 6 to 19 December 2022 to examine the government’s efforts to...

“Woman, life, freedom!” an activist continues her fight for women’s rights

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29 Nov 2022

Portrait photo of Mahnaz Parakand © Mahnaz Parakand

Mahnaz Parakand is an Iranian human rights defender and lawyer. She has been arrested, imprisoned and sentenced to death and had to leave Iran, and yet she continues to fight for the rights of Iranian women. On the occasion of International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, she tells what keeps her standing up for human rights.

Human rights experts support call for UN tax treaty

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29 Nov 2022

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...

International Day for Women Human Rights Defenders - Statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk

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29 Nov 2022

Geneva, 29 November 2022. Courageous women human rights defenders have helped shape a freer and more equal world. They have challenged the centuries-old patriarchy, discrimination and inequality that...