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Racist rhetoric in Tunisia must stop, independent UN experts warn

·April 5, 2023·2 min read

“Tunisia must immediately stop hate speech and violence against migrants from south of the Sahara,” the independent UN-appointed experts said in a statement issued under the Committee’s early warning and urgent action procedure. The mechanism aims at considering situations that may escalate into conflicts with a view to taking preventive...

Counter-terrorism ‘rhetoric’ used to justify rise of surveillance technology: human rights expert

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·March 15, 2023·2 min read

In a report to the latest session of the Human Rights Council, the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, warned of an alarming increase in the use of “intrusive and high-risk technologies”, according to a press release issued by the UN...

Bosnia and Herzegovina: UN rights chief urges leaders to ‘turn the page on rhetoric’ |

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·June 25, 2022·3 min read

The four-day mission marked the first visit by a UN human rights High Commissioner in more than two decades, and she noted that some of the same rights challenges from that era persist today. Ms. Bachelet hailed an “unprecedented ruling” handed down this week, sentencing three people for incitement to hatred...

Violence, rhetoric, hate speech, drive atrocity crimes in Ukraine and beyond, Security Council hears |

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·June 22, 2022·4 min read

Beginning her briefing with a wider perspective, Wairimu Nderitu said that hateful and contentious narratives that form in the wake of growing hostility, violence and discrimination, could have a “devastating impact” on societies at large. “We saw it in the lead up to the Holocaust, in Rwanda in 1994” and...