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UN Human Rights Chief to visit Ukraine, 4-7 December
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GENEVA/KYIV (30 November 2022) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Sunday begins a four-day official visit to Ukraine, at the invitation of the Government. During his visit, the...
UN Fact-Finding Mission on Libya concludes fifth investigative mission
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GENEVA/TUNIS (30 November 2022) – The UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya has concluded its fifth investigative mission to the country, an extended field visit to Tripoli which took place...
UN Forum on Minority Issues session 1-2 December
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GENEVA (30 November 2022) – The UN Forum on Minority Issues convenes for two days from 1 December, with this year’s theme Review. Rethink. Reform. 30th anniversary of the UN Declaration on Minority...
The report of the UN Secretary-General on terrorist attacks on the basis of xenophobia, racism and other forms of intolerance, or in the name of religion and belief
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ASG keynote address Excellencies, Distinguished guests. I would like to thank the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism for the invitation to address this high level event. Our Office very much welcomes this...
Peru: UN expert’s visit to focus on safe drinking water and sanitation
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GENEVA (29 November 2022) -- The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, will visit the Republic of Peru from 1 to 15 December 2022. The...
Nicaragua: Two UN rights committees deplore refusal to cooperate and lack of information
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GENEVA (29 November 2022) – The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) and the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) have jointly decided to take action in response to Nicaragua’s refusal to...
UN expert to visit Morocco to assess the impact of poverty on human rights
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GENEVA (29 November 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, will visit Morocco from 6 to 19 December 2022 to examine the government’s efforts to...
“Woman, life, freedom!” an activist continues her fight for women’s rights
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Mahnaz Parakand is an Iranian human rights defender and lawyer. She has been arrested, imprisoned and sentenced to death and had to leave Iran, and yet she continues to fight for the rights of Iranian women. On the occasion of International Women Human Rights Defenders Day, she tells what keeps her standing up for human rights.