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Press briefing note on Bahrain
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Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Liz Throssell Location: Geneva Date : 30 December 2014 Subject: 1) Bahrain We are seriously concerned at the arrest of Sheikh Ali Salman...
Domestic servitude: Jonalyn’s story
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The UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery supports organisations that seek out and assist people in domestic servitude including medical care, basic needs assistance, trauma counselling and legal aid to rebuild their lives.
UN experts urge Bahrain to drop charges against women activists for government criticism
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GENEVA (29 December 2014) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts* has urged the government of Bahrain to drop charges against three women human rights activists exercising their...
Child domestic servitude: This is Johanne’s story
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When she was nine years old Johanne became a child domestic slave. Forbidden to go to school, instead she was abused and spent her days cooking, cleaning and carrying water in 20 litre buckets, from the communal well, up the hill to her house.
A/HRC/28/57: Report on copyright policy and the right to science and culture
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For her 2015 reports to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur focused on the impact of intellectual property regimes on the enjoyment of right to science and culture.
“Systemic assault on dissent and the media, executions of death sentences continue in Belarus” – UN rights expert
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GENEVA (24 December 2014) – As the year draws to an end, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklós Haraszti , deplores that there is no sign of...
Persistent fighting kills hundreds, causes mass displacement across Libya – UN report
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(revised version incorporating clarification issued on 26 December 2014) GENEVA / TRIPOLI (23 December 2014) – Fighting in recent months between armed groups in western and eastern Libya, as well as...
Press briefing notes on Libya human rights report and Cambodia / Montagnards
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Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date : 23 December 2014 Subjects : (1) Libya human rights report, (2) Cambodia / Montagnards ____________...
Pakistan: UN human rights experts warn against the resumption of death penalty for terrorism acts
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GENEVA (23 December 2014) – A group of United Nations human rights experts* have warned today against a growing trend towards lifting of moratorium on death penalty and the risks of overusing capital...