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The Netherlands should urgently assert the right to adequate housing for all: UN expert

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21 Dec 2023

THE HAGUE (21 December 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, called urgent attention to the need to assert and protect the right to adequate...

Growing up with the UDHR

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21 Dec 2023

The UDHR: An Enduring Blueprint for Human Rights Activists

Human rights activists worldwide have been influenced by the UDHR, some directly – as in the families of those who drafted it – and others indirectly, by using it as a human rights road map for their work.

Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on attacks on civilians in Wad Madani, Sudan

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20 Dec 2023

I am very alarmed by recurring reports of widespread abuses and violations of human rights in recent days amid fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Wad...

Support civil society’s international solidarity efforts for peace: UN experts

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19 Dec 2023

GENEVA (19 December 2023 ) UN experts today emphasised the need for the international community to support civil society groups expressing international solidarity in pursuit of peace and social...

Respect cultural rights of migrants and members of their families

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19 Dec 2023

GENEVA (19 December 2023) – On International Migrants Day, which this year coincides with the 75 th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Committee on the Protection of the...

Gaza: Türk urges ceasefire as civilians pushed to frontier amid escalation

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19 Dec 2023

GENEVA (19 December 2023) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said today he feared for the rapidly increasing number of civilians in Gaza increasingly corralled towards the border with Egypt, as...

Russia “should immediately cease its use of force against Ukraine,” Türk declares

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19 Dec 2023

Mr President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Peace is not a word that I hear very often these days. The situation in Ukraine has been added to a litany of continuous suffering, and the world’s...

Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Jarai

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Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Jarai

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19 Dec 2023

In Nicaragua, report points to continuing violations

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18 Dec 2023

Mr. President, Excellencies, I welcome the opportunity to address the Council and provide an oral update on the human rights situation in Nicaragua pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 52/2...

States must protect migrant workers displaced across international borders by climate change, UN Committee says

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18 Dec 2023

GENEVA (18 December 2023) - Building on the Dubai COP 28 Agreement, the UN Committee on Migrant Workers called on all States parties to address the effects of climate change and environmental...