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United States: Authorities manipulating COVID-19 crisis to restrict access to abortion, say UN experts
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5/27/2020
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- Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
- Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls
- Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
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- Coronavirus disease 2019
- Health
- Women
- Violence against women
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A
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Bangladesh must end persecution of journalist, say UN experts
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5/26/2020
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- Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
- Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Independent expert to examine the existing international criminal and human rights framework for the protection of persons from enforced or involuntary disappearance
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- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Enforced or involuntary disappearances
- Health
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C
A
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COVID-19: Governments must protect the rights of migrants during the pandemic and beyond, UN experts urge
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5/26/2020
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- Committee on Migrant Workers
- Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
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- Migration and Human Rights
- Migrant workers
- Coronavirus disease 2019
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C
A
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Iraq: UN details ordeal of abducted protesters, welcomes Government’s promise to investigate and compensate
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5/26/2020
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- High Commissioner for Human Rights
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C
A
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South Sudan: Bachelet calls for accountability as hundreds reported killed in intercommunal violence
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5/22/2020
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- High Commissioner for Human Rights
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A
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COVID-19 crisis: Kenya urged to stop all evictions and protect housing rights defenders
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5/22/2020
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- Sp. Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
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- Adequate housing
- Human rights defenders
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C
A
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Malaysia / COVID-19: “Stop crackdown on migrants, journalists and civil society” – UN rights experts
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5/21/2020
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- Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
- Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination
- Sp. Rapporteur on torture
- WG on Arbitrary Detention
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- Migrant workers
- Health
- Human rights defenders
- Racism and racial discrimination
- Torture and inhuman treatment
- Arbitrary detention
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A
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Canada urged to repatriate orphaned five-year-old girl held in Syrian camp
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5/20/2020
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- Canada
- Syrian Arab Republic
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- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
- Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls
- WG on Arbitrary Detention
- Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
- Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
- Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
- Sp. Rapporteur on torture
- Sp. Rapporteur on the sale of children
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- Terrorism
- Women
- Arbitrary detention
- Summary or arbitrary executions
- Health
- Migrant workers
- Torture and inhuman treatment
- Sale of children
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C
A
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Africa: We must act now to avoid a catastrophe, say rights chiefs
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5/20/2020
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- High Commissioner for Human Rights
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C
A
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Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances concludes review of 532 cases from 25 countries
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5/19/2020
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- Enforced or involuntary disappearances
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