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“Our utmost priority is solutions,” Türk tells students
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Dear colleagues, friends, students, It is a pleasure to be with you, and I look forward to your thoughts about how we can forge solutions to the many challenges we are seeing to human rights across...
“Without a free press there is no democracy”
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Ricardo Hernández, winner of the 2023 Breach/Valdez Award for Journalism and Human Rights, believes the right to a free press is essential for the protection and promotion of other fundamental human rights. In Mexico, the price for that right can be death.
Colombia - UN human rights expert Antonia Urrejola to conduct second official visit
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GENEVA/BOGOTA (20 November 2023) – Antonia Urrejola, the international human rights expert appointed to identify and verify the obstacles to the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement, will visit...
Committee against Torture Considers Reports on Follow-Up to Concluding Observations, Individual Communications and Reprisals
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The Committee against Torture today discussed reports on follow-up to concluding observations, individual communications and reprisals under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or...
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Opens One Hundred and Eleventh Session in Geneva, Committee Experts Address the Conflict in the Gaza Strip
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The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its one hundred and eleventh session in Geneva, during which it will review anti-discrimination efforts by Bolivia...
Gaza: UN expert demands unconditional humanitarian access and relief for people with disabilities
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GENEVA (20 November 2023) – A UN expert today reiterated growing calls for unconditional and unrestricted humanitarian aid access to the people with disabilities in the Gaza Strip. The expert...
End the killing of children in armed conflict, UN committee urges
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GENEVA (20 November 2023) – With one out of every five children worldwide living within armed conflict zones, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child marks World Children’s Day in a sombre mood...
Women bearing the brunt of Israel-Gaza conflict: UN expert
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GENEVA (20 November 2023) – Women and children have disproportionately borne the brunt of the conflict in Israel and Gaza, a UN expert said today. “While these atrocities affect both women and men...
Human rights are powerful tools that address the root causes of conflict, Türk points out
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This discussion comes at a very difficult moment. On the one hand, we want to commemorate the achievement of 75 years of the UN human rights system – and there are many achievements. On the other, we...