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Ghana: Anti-LGBTI draft bill a “recipe for violence” – UN experts

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12 Aug 2021

GENEVA (12 August 2021) – UN human rights experts* urged Ghana’s Government to reject a proposed ‘family values’ bill, saying it seeks to establish a system of State-sponsored discrimination and...

Spyware scandal: UN experts call for moratorium on sale of ‘life threatening’ surveillance tech

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12 Aug 2021

GENEVA (12 August 2021) – UN human rights experts* today called on all States to impose a global moratorium on the sale and transfer of surveillance technology until they have put in place robust...

World Youth Rights Conference on Involving Youth in Global Action
Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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12 Aug 2021

Video message by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 12 August 2021 I'm delighted to be a virtual part of this World Youth Rights Conference on empowering young people to become...

Igniting change in the lives of young people

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12 Aug 2021

Nafesha Richardson, a youth rights defender from St Vincent and the Grenadines, aims to inspire young people to create change in their communities. 12 August marks International Youth Day.

Unilateral sanctions impinge on right to development - UN experts

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11 Aug 2021

Español GENEVA (11 August 2021) – Many people around the world are being denied the right to development – both their countries’ economic improvement and their own personal development – because of...

Twenty-sixth session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee taking place from 16 to 20 August 2021

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11 Aug 2021

GENEVA (11 August 2021) - The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will hold its twenty-sixth session from 16 to 20 August 2021. The session will take place at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in...

Israel must safeguard human rights defenders in Occupied Palestinian Territory and within its borders – UN expert

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11 Aug 2021

GENEVA (11 August 2021) – A UN expert today expressed concern over arrests, harassment, criminalisation and threats against human rights defenders in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, and...

UN experts call for an end to police brutality worldwide

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11 Aug 2021

GENEVA (11 August 2021) – Independent United Nations human rights experts* issued the following joint statement, to express their alarm at what they describe as a “rampant police brutality against...

Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Ask Lebanon about the Kafala System for Migrant Domestic Workers, the Absence of a Definition of Racial Discrimination, and the Treatment of Refugees

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11 Aug 2021

11 August 2021 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-third to twenty-fourth periodic report of Lebanon after its Experts...

Student study shows human rights education helps conflict prevention

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11 Aug 2021

“It is important for the UN to work with students in the field of human rights education and training, because young generations have the ability to shape the future and will contribute extensively to creating a world without conflict,” said Irina Preotescu, a Columbia University student who conducted a research project on the role of human rights education in preventing conflict.