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UN Free & Equal: Everyone deserves a safe and loving home

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14 Dec 2020

Youth should be a time for discoveries, growth and dreams of future adventures. But it’s hard to dream about and strive for a bright future without the safety of a place to call home. Not having a...

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Human Rights Day event 2020

Published Date

14 Dec 2020

Watch our Human Rights Day event. Theme: How to Recover Better from the COVID19 pandemic, but putting human rights at the heart of our efforts. Discover inspirational stories of people & organizations...

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Peaceful (and not so peaceful) assemblies: Global webinar on 16 December to discuss latest international standards

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Statements

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Published Date

14 Dec 2020

GENEVA (14 December 2020) – The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights) and the University of Pretoria in South Africa will jointly hold a global webinar on 16 December to...

Comment by UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on the execution in Iran of Ruhollah Zam

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Statements

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14 Dec 2020

Geneva, 14 December 2020 I am appalled at the execution in Iran on 12 December of Ruhollah Zam, activist and founder of the AmadNews Telegram channel. His death sentence and execution by hanging are...

Iran: UN experts condemn execution of Ruhollah Zam

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Press releases

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14 Dec 2020

Persian version GENEVA (14 December 2020) - UN human rights experts* condemned the execution of Ruhollah Zam, an Iranian dissident and founder of AmadNews ,calling his conviction and execution...

Standing up for migrant rights, standing up for everyone’s rights

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Stories

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Published Date

14 Dec 2020

A boy sits in a hammock. Tents are in the background.

While migrants living in the Mexican city of Tijuana face an uncertain future, civil society organisations are providing legal and community support, and trying to shift the way we tell stories about migration.

Comments by the Special Rapporteur to the draft General Comment on children's rights in relation to the digital environment

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General comments and recommendations

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Published Date

11 Dec 2020

Water: Futures market invites speculators, challenges basic human rights - UN expert

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Press releases

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Published Date

11 Dec 2020

GENEVA (11 December 2020) – A UN expert on water and human rights today expressed concerns about the creation of the world’s first futures market in water, saying it could invite speculation from...

150th Anniversary of the Central Tracing Agency

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Statements

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Published Date

11 Dec 2020

International Committee of the Red Cross Video Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 11 December 2020 Greetings to all of you. Over the past 150 years, the ICRC's...

Cambodia: UN experts alarmed by 'naming and shaming' of COVID victims

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Press releases

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Published Date

11 Dec 2020

Khmer GENEVA (11 December 2020) – UN human rights experts* expressed alarm at the decision by Cambodian authorities to allow the publication of personal information about individuals who have tested...