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COVID, State surveillance, smartphones, mega tech-corporations and artificial intelligence are only a few of the themes which will remain recurrent throughout the life of the mandate on privacy

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02 Jul 2021

AFTERNOON 2 July 2021 Council Starts Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy and Concludes Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention The...

Human rights council holds separate interactive dialogues with working group on arbitrary detention and independent expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons

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21 Sep 2020

21 September 2020 The Human Rights Council this morning held separate interactive dialogues with theWorking Group on arbitrary detention and the Independent Expert on theenjoyment of all human rights...

Imprisoned human rights defenders in Egypt at grave risk of COVID-19, say UN human rights experts

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24 Aug 2020

GENEVA (24 August 2020) – Lengthy and unnecessary pre-trial detention of scores of Egyptian human rights defenders is putting them at grave and unnecessary risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, UN human...

Iran: UN experts call for the urgent release from prison of human rights defender with COVID-19 symptoms

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22 Jul 2020

Farsi Version (PDF) GENEVA (22 July 2020) – Iran must release human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, reportedly ill with coronavirus symptoms, and other arbitrarily detained individuals before it is...

Malaysia / COVID-19: “Stop crackdown on migrants, journalists and civil society” – UN rights experts

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21 May 2020

Spanish GENEVA (21 May 2020) – The government of Malaysia must halt an ongoing crackdown on migrants, journalists and civil society in the context of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and...

COVID-19: The suffering and resilience of LGBT persons must be visible and inform the actions of States

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14 May 2020

French | Spanish Statement by human rights experts on the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 17 May 2020 Geneva/Washington D.C./Strasbourg, 14 May 2020 On the eve of the...

UN experts urge Belarus to release children and young people jailed for drug offences amid COVID-19 crisis

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07 May 2020

Chinese | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (7 May 2020) – The soaring number of COVID-19 cases in Belarus should compel the Government to immediately release children and young people imprisoned for drug...

UN rights experts fear Uganda is using COVID-19 emergency powers to target LGBT people

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27 Apr 2020

Chinese | Inglés GENEVA (27 April 2020) – UN experts are alarmed that Uganda could be using COVID-19 emergency laws to target gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and urged the government to...

COVID-19: Israel must release Palestinian prisoners in vulnerable situation, say UN experts

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24 Apr 2020

Chinese | Spanish GENEVA (24 April 2020) – A group of UN human rights experts* urged Israel not to discriminate against thousands of Palestinian prisoners facing high-risk exposure to COVID-19 and to...

Cambodia’s state of emergency law endangers human rights, warns UN expert

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17 Apr 2020

Arabic | Chinese version | Khmer version | Spanish GENEVA (17 April 2020) – The Cambodian Government's new state of emergency law in response to the COVID-19 pandemic risks violating the right to...