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Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review - Sweden
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review - Lesotho
“Housing, the front line defence against the COVID-19 outbreak,” says UN expert
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Arabic | Chinese | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (18 March 2020) – As Governments worldwide are relying on people to stay home to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, they must take urgent measures...
Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review - Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Tanzania: Opposition sentences highlight continued stifling of freedoms
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GENEVA /ADDIS ABABA (17 March 2020) – The recent sentencing of eight senior members and one former senior leader of Tanzania's main opposition party, CHADEMA, on charges including sedition and...
COVID-19: Who is protecting the people with disabilities? – UN rights expert
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Spanish GENEVA (17 March 2020) – Little has been done to provide people with disabilities with the guidance and support needed to protect them during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, even though many of...
United Arab Emirates: UN human rights experts call for urgent reforms of degrading conditions of detention
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GENEVA (17 March 2020) – UN human rights experts* have urged the Emirati authorities to investigate and reform detention conditions that amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or...
COVID-19: States should not abuse emergency measures to suppress human rights – UN experts
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Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (16 March 2020) – UN human rights experts* today urged States to avoid overreach of security measures in their response to the coronavirus outbreak...
COVID-19: UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies postpone meetings until June
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GENEVA (16 March 2020) - The United Nations Human Rights Treaties Branch has postponed all upcoming treaty body committee sessions until the end of May in light of the coronavirus outbreak. “The...