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To avoid next round violence, root causes must be addressed – Bachelet on escalation in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territory
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العربية | 中文 | Français | Русский Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the deteriorating human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, Statement by...
Human Rights Council Opens Special Session on “the Grave Human Rights Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem”, Speakers Urge it to Establish an International Commission of Inquiry
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27 May 2021 The Human Right Council this morning opened its special session on “the grave human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem”. It heard calls from...
Egypt: UN experts condemn execution of Coptic Christian
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GENEVA (27 May 2021) – UN human rights experts* condemned the execution this month of Wael Saad Tawdros Mikhil, a member of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, after he was convicted of murder based on...
Human Rights Council Establishes International Commission of Inquiry to Investigate Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel
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27 May 2021 The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution on ensuring respect for international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory...
Act to protect migrants in central Mediterranean Sea, Bachelet urges Libya and EU
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العربية GENEVA (26 May 2021) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on the Libyan Government of National Unity and the European Union and its Member States to urgently...
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances concludes its 124th session
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The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) concluded its 124th session, which took place remotely between 17 and 21 May 2021. During the session, the Working...
UN Child Rights Committee urges Israel and Palestine and the entire international Community to bring immediate support to the children and start building peace
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Geneva (26 May 2021) – The Committee on the Rights of the Child joins the declaration of the Secretary General of the United Nations that “ Israeli & Palestinian leaders have a responsibility beyond...
12th World Conference of the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI)
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Opening statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 26 May 2021 I'd like to thank the IOI's President, Peter Tyndall, and Secretary-General, Werner Amon, for their invitation...
Report: A call to safeguard migrants in central Mediterranean Sea
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“I feel as if I have gone from hell to uncertainty. I thought my journey would come to an end and I would find a safe place in Europe,” said Daraja, a Nigerian migrant. A new report by UN Human Rights delivers first-hand accounts of migrants facing the perilous journey through Libya to Europe. It also calls for an urgent reform of search and rescue policies and practices and more robust protection of migrants at sea.