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MORNING - Human Rights Council Hears that the Special Procedures Have Achieved Gender Parity for the First Time, and that the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine Has Found Continuing Evidence of War Crimes Committed by Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home MORNING - Human Rights Council Hears that the Special Procedures Have Achieved Gender Parity for the First Time, and that the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine Has Found Continuing Evidence of War Crimes Committed by Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine 25 September 2023 Meeting Summaries Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue on the Situation of Human Rights in Belarus…

Ukraine: Rape and torture by Russian forces continuing, rights experts report

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Ukraine: Rape and torture by Russian forces continuing, rights experts report 25 September 2023 © WFP/Anastasiia Honcharuk The UN says there is evidence that civilians in Ukraine are being targeted by Russia. Russian forces in Ukraine faced new allegations of war crimes on Monday as UN-appointed independent rights experts published the findings of their latest report into Russia’s full…

Palestine: Rights experts call for stronger torture prevention measures

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Palestine: Rights experts call for stronger torture prevention measures 25 September 2023 UN News The Palestinian Flag in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian authorities must strengthen fundamental legal safeguards against torture and ill-treatment, especially from the first moments of detention, a group of UN human rights experts said on Monday.…

World News in Brief: Ukraine nuclear plant update, Sudan health crisis, reproductive rights

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Ukraine nuclear plant update, Sudan health crisis, reproductive rights 25 September 2023 © IAEA/Fredrik Dahl IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi visits the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant and its surrounding area with his team during an official visit to Ukraine. “We are not going anywhere” is the message coming from UN nuclear safety watchdog IAEA chief Rafael…

Venezuela continues crackdown on dissenters, UN rights experts warn

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Venezuela continues crackdown on dissenters, UN rights experts warn 25 September 2023 © UNICEF/Velasquez Children walk past street graffiti in Caracas, Venezuela. (file) Attacks on civic and democratic space in Venezuela are increasing through policies aimed at silencing opposition and criticism of the Government, the head of a UN-appointed human rights body said on Monday.…

Only way to end nuclear risk ‘is to eliminate nuclear weapons’: Guterres

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Only way to end nuclear risk ‘is to eliminate nuclear weapons’: Guterres 25 September 2023 © ICAN/Marlena Koenig The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons is marked annually on 26 September. When “geopolitical mistrust and competition” has pushed the nuclear risk to Cold War levels, total elimination of such weapons is the only route to a peaceful future, the UN…

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Opens Seventy-Fourth Session

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Opens Seventy-Fourth Session 25 September 2023 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today opened its seventy-fourth session, hearing opening remarks from Wan-Hea Lee, Chief, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Representative of the…

HRC - Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home HRC - Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine 25 September 2023 Press Conference Announcement The Commissioners oral update to HRC 25 September 2023 Erik Møse, Chair of the Commission Pablo de Greiff, Commissioner Vrinda Grover, Commissioner

‘It’s crunch time’ to reach the SDGs, Mohammed tells Global Citizen Festival

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home ‘It’s crunch time’ to reach the SDGs, Mohammed tells Global Citizen Festival 24 September 2023 UN News/Nathan Beriro The Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed addresses the audience at the Global Citizen Festival in New York's Central Park. Despite pouring rain, around 60,000 advocates, artists, influencers and concerned citizens were in New York’s iconic Central Park on Saturday…

Russian Foreign Minister hits out at West’s ‘empire of lies’

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Russian Foreign Minister hits out at West’s ‘empire of lies’ 23 September 2023 UN Photo/Cia Pak Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of the Russian Federation addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 78th session. Russia’s Foreign Minister told the UN General Assembly on Saturday that a new world order is being born through a struggle between a neocolonial minority and a “global…