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UN Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen presents their third report to the Human Rights Council:A Pandemic of Impunity in a Tortured Landurging an end to impunity, in a conflict with no clean hands, and the referral by the UN Security Council of the situation in Yemen to the International Criminal Court.

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29 Sep 2020

العربية GENEVA / BEIRUT (29 September 2020) – In its third report , officially presented to the Human Rights Council today, the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen detailed...

UN human rights experts: Belarus must release opposition leader Maria Kalesnikava

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25 Sep 2020

GENEVA (25 September 2020) – UN human rights experts* today called on Belarus to release prominent opposition leader Maria Kalesnikava, and to bring to justice those responsible for her enforced...

Iran: Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh must be freed for treatment, say UN experts

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25 Sep 2020

Farsi (PDF) GENEVA (25 September 2020) – UN independent experts expressed alarm at human rights lawyer and woman human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh’s return to Evin Prison in Iran this week despite...

Mali coup leaders must immediately release detained former officials, says UN expert

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23 Sep 2020

GENEVA (23 September 2020) – A UN human rights expert today called on Mali’s coup leaders to release former government officials detained for more than a month. “There is no legal basis for detention...

No human rights progress despite new presidency, Burundi inquiry finds

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23 Sep 2020

2020年5月20日，总统选举与大选期间，布隆迪人民在位于中部吉赫塔的布布小学的投票站排队等候。法新社

The Commission of Inquiry on Burundi outlines the serious human rights violations occurring in the context of the 2020 elections, including summary executions, arbitrary detentions and arrests, torture and sexual violence.

Enforced disappearances: UN experts rue “multiplying effect” of impunity

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21 Sep 2020

GENEVA (21 September 2020) – A group of UN human rights experts today called on the international community to strengthen cooperation to enable timely and effective investigations and prosecutions of...

Human Rights Council holds interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence

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17 Sep 2020

17 September 2020 Concludes Interactive Dialogue with the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur...

UN experts condemn jail sentence against Algerian journalistand call for his release

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16 Sep 2020

العربية | Français GENEVA (16 September 2020) – UN human rights experts* today condemned the prison sentence handed down on appeal to an Algerian journalist and human rights defender, Khaled Drareni...

UN experts urge Iran to release human rights defenders from prison during COVID-19

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16 Sep 2020

GENEVA (16 September 2020) – UN experts* today called on Iran to temporarily release human rights defenders from prison to protect them from the spread of COVID-19 in prisons. “Iranian human rights...

Press briefing notes on Cambodia

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11 Sep 2020

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 11 September 2020 Since 31 July, when prominent trade unionist Rong Chhun was arrested at his home...