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UN Human Rights Chief Türk issues open letter to Twitter’s Elon Musk

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05 Nov 2022

GENEVA (5 November 2022) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Saturday issued an open letter to Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer at Twitter, urging him to “ensure human rights are...

Human Rights Committee Concludes One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Session after Adopting Concluding Observations on Reports of Ethiopia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Philippines and the Russian Federation

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04 Nov 2022

The Human Rights Committee today concluded its one hundred and thirty-sixth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Ethiopia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Philippines and the...

Vienna Conference on the Safety of Journalists, Statement by Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

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04 Nov 2022

My warm thanks to the Government of Austria for bringing us together for this high-level conference. Since the Plan of Action was adopted 10 years ago, we have faced a series of changes and challenges...

Afghanistan: NGO arrests

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04 Nov 2022

We have received deeply worrying reports that yesterday (Thursday) afternoon in Kabul, a number of de facto security officials disrupted a press conference by a women’s civil society organisation...

UN Human Rights Committee issues findings on Ethiopia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Philippines and Russia

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03 Nov 2022

GENEVA (3 November 2022) – The UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) has issued its findings onEthiopia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, the Philippines, and Russia, after examining the implementation of...

Freedom of expression is key to countering disinformation

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03 Nov 2022

Hand holding a phone with overlay text related to disinformation.© Gettyimages

A report of the Secretary-General on countering disinformation for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms highlights the challenges posed by disinformation and the responses to it, while laying out best-practices to be adopted when countering disinformation.

Governments must embrace and enable social movements as key partners in “Building Back Better”: UN expert

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28 Oct 2022

NEW YORK (28 October 2022) – Faced with multiple and compounding crises, governments must embrace and enable social movements as essential partners as they ‘build back better’, a UN expert said today...

Human Rights Committee Adopts Reports on Follow-up to Concluding Observations Concerning Algeria, Angola, Bulgaria and Viet Nam

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27 Oct 2022

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted reports by the Special Rapporteur on follow-up to concluding observations concerning Algeria, Angola, Bulgaria and Viet Nam. According to the...

Iran: Crackdown on peaceful protests since death of Jina Mahsa Amini needs independent international investigation, say UN experts

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26 Oct 2022

GENEVA (26 October 2022) -- UN human rights experts* condemned the killings and the crackdown by security forces in Iran on protesters following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, including alleged...

Chad: Experts alarmed by lethal use of force against protesters and call for de-escalation

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26 Oct 2022

GENEVA (26 October 2022) - UN and African Union independent experts* today condemned the lethal repression of peaceful protests over Chad’s extended political transition period and called for de...