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Human Rights Council Hears Call to End Impunity and Achieve Accountability in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and that Many Violations in Ukraine Amount to War Crimes
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AFTERNOON 20 March 2023 Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue...
Human Rights Council Hears that the People of Myanmar Continue to Suffer Profound Human Rights Harms and that Serious and Systematic Human Rights Violations and Abuses in Nicaragua are Crimes against Humanity
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AFTERNOON 6 March 2023 Council Concludes its Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded an...
Kenya: Türk welcomes charges of ‘crimes against humanity’ for 2017 post-election violations
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GENEVA (28 October 2022) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday commended an important advance towards accountability for gross human rights violations in Kenya, following the...
Bachelet urges prompt investigation into killings in western Ethiopia
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GENEVA (23 June 2022) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Thursday urged Ethiopian authorities to hold prompt, impartial and thorough investigations into attacks that led to...
OHCHR Training Guide on Reporting under the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance
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The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance is the first universally legally binding human rights instrument concerning enforced disappearance. It...
Reporting under the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance: Training Guide (Part II – Training package)
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Summary This Training Package is the complement to the Reporting under the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance: Training Guide (Part I – Manual) . It...
High Commissioner Says Accountability Remains Crucial to Any Solution to the Crisis in Myanmar and Special Rapporteur Urges the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to Stop Crimes against Humanity like the Political Prison Camps
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MORNING The Human Rights Council this morning discussed the situation of human rights in Myanmar and in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. It heard the High Commissioner say that the human...
UN expert: Myanmar people betrayed with ‘vague declarations’ and ‘tedious, endless wait’ for action
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GENEVA (21 March 2022) – In the face of what he described as war crimes and crimes against humanity in Myanmar, a UN human rights expert today said the victims of these crimes see the international...
German court’s historic crimes against humanity finding in Syria case must spur momentum for international justice – Bachelet
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet hailed the “historic” conviction by a German court on Thursday of a senior Syrian intelligence official. Bachelet urged other States to take on...