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Committee on Enforced Disappearances Closes Twenty-Fourth Session After Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Argentina, Costa Rica, Germany and Zambia
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The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon closed its twenty-fourth session after adopting its concluding observations on the report of Costa Rica, Zambia in absence of a report, and...
Human Rights Council Discusses the Situation of Children in the Central African Republic and Strengthening Institutional Capacities in South Sudan
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AFTERNOON 31 March 2023 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a high-level interactive dialogue to assess developments in the situation of human rights on the ground in the Central African...
Fact Sheet No. 6 (Rev. 4): Enforced Disappearances
In Dialogue with the Philippines, Experts of the Committee on Migrant Workers Commend Ratification of Key Labour Conventions, Raise Issues Concerning Exploitation by Recruitment Agencies and the Alleged Murder of a Filipina Domestic Worker Abroad
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The Committee on Migrant Workers this afternoon concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of the Philippines on how it implements the provisions of the International Convention on the...
Human Rights Council Hears that the Security Situation in Mali is Very Concerning, and that Severe Violations of Human Rights Have Become Shockingly Routine in Ukraine
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MORNING 31 March 2023 The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali, followed by an interactive dialogue with...
Central African Republic: Atrocities must end, says Volker Türk
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Mr. President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Rarely has a country with such a dangerously poor human rights record been so forgotten by the rest of the world. The people of Central African...
Children in Northeast Syria must be urgently repatriated: UN experts
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GENEVA (31 March 2023) – UN experts* today called for the urgent repatriation of children from Northeast Syria as they enter their fifth year of detention, saying children in conflict zones must be...
Bangladesh: Türk urges immediate suspension of Digital Security Act as media crackdown continues
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GENEVA (31 March 2023) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today called on Bangladesh to suspend immediately its application of the Digital Security Act. “I am concerned that the Digital Security Act...
Disappearance is “a wound that never heals”
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Izabel Lopez Raymundo was reported disappeared 40 years ago in Guatemala, in the context of an internal armed conflict. Adopted in Belgium, she was later found thanks to the search efforts of her biological sister, and an association called La Liga Guatemalteca de Higine Mental.