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A/HRC/44/48/ADD.1 - Visit to Ecuador - Report of the Special Rapporteur on physical and mental health
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Summary The Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health visited Ecuador from 17 to 26 September 2019. Ecuador has made...
World Press Freedom Day 2020“Drawing lessons from COVID19: Towards a consistent framework topromote free and reliable information”
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Spanish Online event organized by UN Group of Friends for the Protection of Journalists and RSF Keynote speech by Ilze Brands Kehris, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights 6 May 2020, 10.30 –...
COVID-19: Urgent need for child protection services to mitigate the risk of child sexual abuse and exploitation worldwide
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Russian | Spanish GENEVA (6 May 2020) – A UN human rights expert today warned that a reported surge in violence against children and new forms of sexual exploitation and abuse of them during COVID-19...
UN expert urges adoption of draft declaration on international solidarity
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Russian | Spanish GENEVA (6 May 2020) – States and non-state actors must cooperate much more closely in the struggle to fully respect human rights after the world emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, the...
Venezuela must offer concrete steps to end humanitarian crisis, say UN experts
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Spanish GENEVA (6 May 2020) – A group of UN experts today demanded that Venezuela detail plans to tackle the devastating impact of the country’s economic crisis on human rights and also urged the...
UN virtual meeting gives victims chance to be heard
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The testimony from a woman whose son has been missing more than five years featured at the opening of 18th session of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances. In the first of its kind, the Committee hosted a virtual meeting, which was broadcast online.
Voices from the Field: Protecting human rights in Moldova amidst COVID-19
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“Our country was already suffering, and the pandemic is just worsening the situation,” says Cristina Mardari, a UN Human Rights staffer from Moldova. She shares her experience from lockdown, and how...
Marlene Urscheler, doing human rights work during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Marlene Urscheler heads the Emergency Response Team at UN Human Rights’ Regional Office for West Africa based in Dakar, Senegal. She was recently designated as the Office’s focal point for COVID-19...