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Weather experts predict ‘near normal’ season, with 5 to 9 potential hurricanes

·May 27, 2023·3 min read

The US National Hurricane Center acts as WMO’s Regional Specialized Meteorological hub, based in Miami, Florida. There is a 40 per cent chance of a near-normal season, 30 per cent possibility of an “above-normal season”, and also 30 per cent of a below-normal season, according to forecasters with the Climate...

Russia must provide ‘urgent and comprehensive’ care to opposition leader Navalny: Rights experts

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·May 15, 2023·2 min read

Alice Edwards, who is officially known as the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, said she was “distressed by the deteriorating state of Mr. Navalny’s health and the apparent lack of satisfactory diagnosis and medical treatment”. ‘A form of torture’ In a statement also backed...

Afghanistan: Rights experts alarmed over Taliban use of ‘brutal’ punishments

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·May 11, 2023·1 min read

The urgent call from the ten Special Rapporteurs and members of the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls, came in response to an announcement by the Taliban-appointed Supreme Court in favour of punishments including stoning, flogging and burying people under a wall. Women most vulnerable The de facto...

Human rights experts alarmed over ‘imminent executions’ in Saudi Arabia

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·May 8, 2023·3 min read

“Despite being charged with terrorism, they were reportedly arrested for resisting forced evictions in the name of the NEOM project and the construction of a 170km linear city called The Line,” the UN experts said. ‘Smart city’ project NEOM is a futuristic urban development project backed by the Saudi Public...

USA: Slavery has left a deep and long-lasting legacy on the country, UN experts say

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·May 6, 2023·2 min read

During the visit, the Mechanism visited Washington DC, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, and New York City saying in a press release, that it had been pleased to learn about various promising initiatives that authorities have developed to combat racial discrimination affecting people of African descent. Urging accountability and support...

Afghanistan: Women tell UN rights experts ‘we’re alive, but not living’

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·May 5, 2023·3 min read

“We are alarmed about widespread mental health issues and accounts of escalating suicides among women and girls,” they said in a joint statement. “This extreme situation of institutionalized gender-based discrimination in Afghanistan is unparalleled anywhere in the world.” ‘Extreme’ discrimination Since the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in 2021, de...

Israel: UN experts demand accountability over death of Palestinian hunger striker

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·May 3, 2023·2 min read

The 45-year-old Palestinian died in his prison cell on Tuesday morning following a nearly three-month hunger strike. He had been protesting Israel’s widespread policy of arbitrarily detaining Palestinians in “abhorrent conditions” and in violation of fair trial guarantees. The call for greater accountability came from the independent expert, or Special...

Stop deporting Haitians: Rights experts’ appeal to countries in Americas

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·April 30, 2023·1 min read

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) sounded the alarm after 36,000 people of Haitian origin were deported during the first three months of the year, according to figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Some 90 per cent were deported from the Dominican Republic. Violations...

Singapore: Rights experts call for moratorium on the death penalty

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·April 29, 2023·1 min read

They strongly condemned the execution this week of Tangaraju s/o Suppiah, who was convicted of conspiring to traffic cannabis from Malaysia to the country in 2013. Fair trial concerns Mr. Suppiah, a 46-year-old Tamil from Singapore, was hanged on Tuesday despite claims that he had not been provided with adequate...

UN independent experts spotlight ‘prima facie war crime’ in East Jerusalem

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·April 14, 2023·2 min read

“There has been an ongoing and unchecked tragedy: the forced eviction of Palestinians from their homes,” they said in a joint statement. “Israel’s transfer of its own population into the occupied territory confirms a deliberate intention to colonize the territory it occupies, a practice strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law,”...

UK must protect unaccompanied children seeking asylum, urge UN experts

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·April 11, 2023·1 min read

“We are deeply concerned at reports that unaccompanied asylum-seeking children are going missing and are at high risk of being trafficked within the UK,” the three experts, or Special Rapporteurs, said in a statement. Local authority responsibility They said that instead of being housed in hotels, children should be...

Malawi: Rights experts offer ‘heartfelt support and solidarity’, in wake of Cyclone Freddy

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·April 10, 2023·2 min read

“We extend our heartfelt support and solidarity to the hundreds of thousands affected by Freddy, the longest-lasting tropical cyclone ever recorded in the southern hemisphere,” the UN-appointed human rights experts said in a statement. “The cyclone has had a devastating toll on people across 14 districts – nearly half the country...