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UN experts urge India to release protest leaders

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26 Jun 2020

GENEVA (26 June 2020) – UN experts* today called on India to immediately release human rights defenders who have been arrested for protesting against changes to the nation’s citizenship laws. “These...

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June

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26 Jun 2020

Today, on 26 June 2020, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Sir Malcolm Evans, Chair of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT), and Mr Mykola Gnatovskyy...

Israel/OPT: EU must weigh in to ensure accountability as annexation looms, says UN expert

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26 Jun 2020

GENEVA (26 June 2020) – A UN human rights expert has urged the European Union to use its “economic weight, diplomatic expertise and aid, trade and investment leverage” to forestall looming Israeli...

589 killed in central Mali so far in 2020 as security worsens – Bachelet

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26 Jun 2020

Français | Español GENEVA (26 June 2020) – 589 civilians have been killed so far this year in central Mali, as a deteriorating security situation and widespread impunity undermine efforts to protect...

UN experts call for decisive measures to protect fundamental freedoms in China

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26 Jun 2020

中文 GENEVA (26 June 2020) – UN independent experts have repeatedly communicated with the Government of the People’s Republic of China their alarm regarding the repression of fundamental freedoms in...

Spain: Passing the buck on exploited migrant workers must end, says UN expert

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26 Jun 2020

Español GENEVA (26 June 2020) – The Government and Spanish companies must immediately improve abysmal conditions for neglected migrant labourers deployed as “essential workers” to pick strawberries...

COVID-19 exacerbates the risk of ill-treatment and torture worldwide – UN experts

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26 Jun 2020

The UN Anti-Torture mechanisms unanimously warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is leading to an escalation of torture and ill-treatment worldwide, and torture survivors are especially in danger of getting infected by the lethal virus.

A/HRC/44/24: Impact of new technologies on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of assemblies, including peaceful protests

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25 Jun 2020

In the present report, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights focuses on new technologies, including information and communications technology, and their impact on the promotion and...

UN experts urge DPRK to repatriate abductees on 70th anniversary of the Korean War

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25 Jun 2020

GENEVA (25 June 2020) – UN human rights experts* today urged the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to repatriate hundreds of people abducted during and after the Korean War and end decades...

UN experts* call for further and swifter measures to combat the spread of COVID-19, particularly in detention facilities in Yemen

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25 Jun 2020

العربية BEIRUT/GENEVA, 25 June 2020 – The Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen, today urged all parties to the conflict in Yemen to take further measures to fight the spread of...