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Iran urged to end new rights clampdown following teenage girl’s death

·November 3, 2023·2 min read

They issued a statement expressing shock over the death of Armita Geravand, the teenager who collapsed in the subway in Iran’s capital, Tehran, earlier this month, allegedly following an altercation about failing to wear a headdress or hijab. Ms. Geravand died on Saturday, according to international reports which cited State...

World News in Brief: Russia likely attacked Ukraine cafe, disease alert for Sudan, Taliban must release rights defenders

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·November 1, 2023·2 min read

The report published on Tuesday and based on site inspections and witness interviews says that “there are reasonable grounds to believe that the missile was launched by Russian armed forces”. It details the devastating impact of what has been one of the deadliest single incidents for Ukrainian civilians since Russia’s...

Amazon, DoorDash, Walmart, trapping workers in poverty: UN rights expert

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·October 31, 2023·2 min read

In separate letters to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, the UN-appointed independent expert on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, requested a response to reports of inadequate pay, aggressive union-busting tactics, and the misclassification of workers as “independent contractors”, intentionally depriving them of...

Israel-Palestine crisis has ‘reached an unprecedented level of dehumanisation’: Independent rights expert

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·October 30, 2023·5 min read

In an interview with UN News, UN Human Rights Council-appointed expert Francesca Albanese, said it was “impossible to describe the pain and suffering that Israelis are going through because of what happened to them…because there are not only those who were killed, those who were taken hostage, but there is...

Pakistan urged to halt Afghan deportations to avoid ‘human rights catastrophe’

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·October 28, 2023·1 min read

OHCHR is urging the authorities to halt deportations, which are set to begin on 1 November, Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told journalists in Geneva. Currently, more than two million undocumented Afghans are living in Pakistan, at least 600,000 of whom arrived after the Taliban returned to power in August 2021. ‘Grave...

World News in Brief, Afghanistan rights abuses, Sudan crisis deepens, Australia votes no

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·October 25, 2023·2 min read

The series of deadly earthquakes and possibility of massive involuntary returns, all add up to the need for urgent action to avoid further suffering and potential instability, said Richard Bennett. “A grave picture has emerged, providing a glimpse of what may lie ahead for the human rights of many Afghans, particularly...

Israel-Gaza crisis dominates close of Human Rights Council session

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·October 14, 2023·3 min read

Some 22 countries and one non-governmental organization (NGO) took the floor, turning the meeting into a mini urgent debate on the crisis sparked by Hamas attacks against Israel and the capture of more than 100 Israelis who are being held hostage by militants inside the Gaza Strip. The surprise incursion...

Ethiopia: Victims ‘left in limbo’ as rights probe mandate ends

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·October 13, 2023·1 min read

The independent rights investigators’ final report comes as their mandate ended on Friday, coinciding with the end of the UN Human Rights Council’s 54th session, leaving victims in limbo. Established by the Council in December 2021, their brief from the Council was to conduct through and impartial investigations into alleged...

Iran: Rights experts ‘dismayed’ over continued imprisonment of Nobel Laureate Mohammadi

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·October 11, 2023·1 min read

Ms. Mohammadi has been arrested multiple times, the first arrest being in 2011 for her advocacy for incarcerated human rights activists and their families. In 2015, she was rearrested and sentenced to additional years. She is currently serving a lengthy jail sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison for “spreading anti-State propaganda”,...

UN rights office concerned over pre-election violence in Liberia

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·October 5, 2023·1 min read

“We are concerned by reported instances of election-related violence, use of language that could amount to hate speech, and attacks on journalists in Liberia ahead of the general election on 10 October,” said UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson in the country, Seif Magango. Violent clashes Violent clashes between supporters of...

Arbitrary detention still widespread in Mexico, rights expert warns

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·October 3, 2023·2 min read

In a statement concluding a 12-day visit there, the UN expert group said that reforms including the transition to an accusatory criminal procedure, adherence to international human rights laws and introduction of a National Registry of Detentions, and an increasingly human-rights centred legal system are significant achievements. ‘Catalyst for ill-treatment’...

Protecting older persons’ rights benefit everyone: UN chief

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·October 1, 2023·2 min read

In a message commemorating Sunday’s International Day of Older Persons, the UN chief underscored the pervasive issue of ageism in society and the vulnerability of older persons in the face of crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, poverty and climate emergencies. “Addressing these and other issues is a human rights...