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Human Rights Council adopts President’s statement on Human Rights implications of COVID-19 5/29/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Human Rights Council
  • Human Rights Council
  • Coronavirus disease 2019
E F S R C A
Nepal: Bachelet condemns Dalit killings, calls for independent investigation 5/29/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Nepal
E F S R C A
US Government urged to do more to prevent major outbreaks of COVID-19 in detention centres – UN experts 5/29/2020
  • Press Releases
  • United States of America
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
  • Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination
  • Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Independent expert older persons
  • Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
  • African Descent
  • Health
  • Racism and racial discrimination
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Older persons
  • Independence of judiciary
  • Migration and Human Rights
  • Disability
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Minorities
E F S R C A
UN Human Rights Chief urges “serious action” to halt US police killings of unarmed African Americans 5/28/2020
  • Press Releases
  • United States of America
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
E F S R C A
UN Committee welcomes Spain’s decision to allow Moroccan child to attend public school 5/28/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Children rights
  • Children
E F S R C A
United States: Authorities manipulating COVID-19 crisis to restrict access to abortion, say UN experts 5/27/2020
  • Press Releases
  • United States of America
  • 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
  • Coronavirus disease 2019
  • Health
  • Women
  • Violence against women
E F S R C A
Bangladesh must end persecution of journalist, say UN experts 5/26/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Bangladesh
  • 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
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Enforced or involuntary disappearances
  • Health
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COVID-19: Governments must protect the rights of migrants during the pandemic and beyond, UN experts urge 5/26/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Committee on Migrant Workers
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  • Migration and Human Rights
  • Migrant workers
  • Coronavirus disease 2019
E F S R C A
Iraq: UN details ordeal of abducted protesters, welcomes Government’s promise to investigate and compensate 5/26/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Iraq
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
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South Sudan: Bachelet calls for accountability as hundreds reported killed in intercommunal violence 5/22/2020
  • Press Releases
  • South Sudan
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
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