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Hundreds of thousands trafficked to work as online scammers in SE Asia, says UN report
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GENEVA (29 August 2023) – Hundreds of thousands of people are being forcibly engaged by organised criminal gangs into online criminality in Southeast Asia - from romance-investment scams and crypto...
China: “Vocational training” programmes threaten Tibetan identity, carry risk of forced labour, say UN experts
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GENEVA (27 April 2023) – UN experts* today expressed concern over allegations that so-called “labour transfer” and “vocational training” programmes in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China are being...
Experts of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Commend Serbia on its Health Care System, Ask about Progress in Preventing Forced Labour and Protecting Human Rights Defenders
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The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Serbia, commending the State on its almost universal health care system and...
DPRK: Pursue accountability for human rights violations, UN report urges international community
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中文 Korean 한국어 (Word) GENEVA (2 February 2021) – Seven years on from a landmark UN investigation into human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), there are reasonable grounds to...
Exploitation of desperate workers should never be the ‘new normal’, says UN expert
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World Day against Trafficking in Persons, 30 July 2020 GENEVA (30 July 2020) – The rampant exploitation of vulnerable workers, including many women and children, has increased alarmingly during the...
UN Human Rights North Korea Report, Michelle Bachelet comments
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Comments by the UN High Commissioner for Human rights on the latest report on DPRK: "The price is rights: The violation of the right to an adequate standard of living in the Democratic People’s...
SECRETARY-GENERAL’S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT TO ADDRESS WEST AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE SUMMIT
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27 January 2003 Under-Secretary-General Olara A. Otunnu, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, has been invited to address the twenty-sixth ordinary...
FIGHT AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING GAINS AWARENESS-RAISING TOOL IN GLOBAL TELEVISION CAMPAIGN
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19 February 2002 VIENNA, 19 February (UN Information Service) -- A new video spot is being released today as a part of a global television campaign by the United Nations Office for Drug Control and...
Abolishing Slavery and its Contemporary Forms
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This publication provides a comprehensive summary of the core international law against slavery, its origins, and progress made via the international campaign to abolish slave trade and slavery...