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Human Rights Council: Russia responsible for ‘widespread death and destruction’ in Ukraine

·February 28, 2023·4 min read

Speaking only days since a large majority of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, the UN chief stressed that Russia’s decision to go to war against its neighbour on 24 February 2022 had unleashed “widespread death, destruction and displacement”....

UN rights chief deplores Ukraine death toll one year after Russian invasion

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·February 22, 2023·5 min read

Matilda Bogner, Head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU), told journalists in Geneva that the civilian death toll in the southern city of Mariupol – besieged and bombarded by Russian missiles – had been particularly high. “My colleagues interviewed a former prisoner of war, and he...

Climate crisis and migration: Greta Thunberg supports IOM over ‘life and death’ issue

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·January 28, 2023·2 min read

António Vitorino, and Ms. Thunberg said they had “found much common ground” during a recent discussion about the impact of global climate change on human mobility. The Greta Thunberg Foundation has donated 275,000 Euros (around $269,000) to support IOM’s emergency response to the historic floods in Pakistan and the crippling...

Zambia: Abolition of the death penalty ‘a historic milestone’

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·January 7, 2023·1 min read

President Hakainde Hichilema announced the move on 23 December, which “followed years of advocacy efforts by concerned stakeholders, such as the National Human Rights Commission, civil society groups, development partners, the UN team and other partners,” it said. The UN team in Zambia is led by Resident Coordinator Beatrice Mutali. Several UN...

UNESCO ‘deeply saddened’ over death of football legend, Pelé

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·December 30, 2022·2 min read

The UN education and culture organisation which champions the power of sport across the world, UNESCO, tweeted that it was “deeply saddened” at his passing, and extended condolences to the Brazilian people, and the wider “football family”. As a 17-year-old, Pelé won his first football or soccer World Cup, in 1958,...

Myanmar: Secretive military courts sentence scores of people to death

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·December 3, 2022·3 min read

“The military continues to hold proceedings in secretive courts in violation of basic principles of fair trial and contrary to core judicial guarantees of independence and impartiality”, Volker Türk added, calling for the suspension of all executions and a return to a moratorium on death penalty. Dealing out death On...

Many persons with disabilities face premature death due to health inequities

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·December 2, 2022·2 min read

“Many persons with disabilities die earlier, some up to 20 years earlier, and more are at risk – double the risk – of developing a range of health conditions compared to the general population,” said Darryl Barrett, WHO’s Technical Lead for Sensory Functions, Disability and Rehabilitation, briefing reporters in Geneva. The Global...

Saudi Arabia: Quash death sentence for Jordanian convicted of drug offences, urge UN experts

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·December 2, 2022·2 min read

“Under international law, States that have not yet abolished the death penalty may only impose it for the ‘most serious crimes’, involving intentional killing”, the UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts said in a statement, continuing to urge the Saudi Government to “abolish the death penalty for drug convictions”. Hussein Abo...

Iran: Stop sentencing peaceful protesters to death, UN experts urge |

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·November 12, 2022·3 min read

“We urge Iranian authorities to stop using the death penalty as a tool to squash protests and reiterate our call to immediately release all protesters who have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty for the sole reason of exercising their legitimate rights to freedom of opinion and expression, association and peaceful assembly...

Resurgence of ethnic clashes in Sudan’s Blue Nile region triggers death and destruction |

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·November 7, 2022·1 min read

According to the UN, inter-communal clashes that have flared up several times since July have caused at least 359 fatalities, injured 469 people, displaced more than 97,000, and triggered extensive property damage. “The clashes between the ethnic communities are rooted in long standing issues over land ownership and ethnic...

Reliable information ‘a matter of life and death’ UN chief tells Security Council |

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·July 13, 2022·4 min read

“Communications is not a side issue or an afterthought,” he said during the first-ever High-Level Debate dedicated to the importance of strategic communications, calling it “central to the success of all our work”. He recalled his 2016 pledge when sworn in as Secretary-General, to “communicate better about what we do,...

Myanmar: Death sentences ‘vile attempt at instilling fear’, rights experts charge |

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·June 11, 2022·5 min read

Special Rapporteurs Thomas Andrews and Morris Tidball-Binz, fear the development could signal the start of a spate of executions in a country which has not carried out capital punishment in more than 30 years. Disregard for human rights “The illegitimate military junta is providing the international community with further evidence...