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COVID-19 exacerba el riesgo de malos tratos y tortura en todo el mundo - Expertos de la ONU

Detenido tras las rejas durante COVID-19

Los mecanismos antitortura de las Naciones Unidas advirtieron unánimemente que la pandemia del COVID-19 está provocando una escalada de la tortura y los malos tratos en todo el mundo, y que los supervivientes de la tortura corren un riesgo especial de infectarse por el virus letal.
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Trabajando juntos para proteger mejor a los vulnerables en Sudán del Sur durante la COVID-19

Anthony Nwapa, Jefe de Equipo de Derechos Humanos de la UNMISS, Estado de Ecuatoria Oriental en el Complejo de la Estación de Policía Municipal de Torit. Nwapa/ACNUDH

“Nuestros recursos y capacidades individuales son limitados, pero, cuando se combinan, nuestras ventajas comparativas proporcionarán mejores resultados para los grupos vulnerables a los que apoyamos,” afirma Anthony Nwapa, jefe de equipo en la Misión de las Naciones Unidas en la División de Derechos Humanos en Sudán del Sur en el Estado de Ecuatoria Oriental, Sudán del Sur, acerca del trabajo con socios en Sudán del Sur para promover los derechos humanos durante la COVID-19.
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Voces desde el terreno: Belarús, defender los derechos de las personas vulnerables frente a la pandemia

Omer Fisher, Oficial superior de derechos humanos de la ONU en Bielorrusia.

“No se puede aspirar a limitar eficazmente la propagación de la pandemia si sectores completos de población quedan al margen de las iniciativas”, declaró Omer Fisher, Asesor Principal sobre derechos humanos en Belarús.
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La Alta Comisionada dice a los líderes empresariales: reconstruid mejor centrándoos en los vulnerables

(La Jefa de Derechos Humanos de la ONU, Michelle Bachelet, hablando en un evento en vivo el año pasado. Bachelet participó en la Cumbre virtual de Líderes del Pacto Mundial. © JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO/EPA)

“Las empresas deberían mirar más allá de las categorías genéricas de las 'partes interesadas' —empleados, proveedores, clientes, comunidades— a fin de tener muy en cuenta a los que son más vulnerables”, aseguró la Alta Comisionada de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Michelle Bachelet. Realizó su declaración durante un encuentro virtual de más de 20.000 empresas y líderes en materia de sostenibilidad de todo el mundo.
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Únase a nosotros en la promoción y defensa de los derechos humanos para todos, en todas partes. Defender los derechos humanos y actuar por un respeto más fuerte, una mayor libertad y más compasión.
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NOTICIAS

Lebanon crisis Bachelet urges the Government, political parties and financial sector to work together to ensure the poorest and most vulnerable are protected amid Lebanon’s economic crisis.
Srebrenica genocide As we mark the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, accountability and reconciliation need to be addressed with concrete action and renewed urgency, UN Human Rights Chief urges.
Iraq killings Shocking murder in Iraq of security analyst Hisham Al-Hushami highlights the risks faced by people who dare to challenge powerful militias in Iraq and are vocal about pervasive impunity and corruption.
Black women's lives also matter The UN women’s rights committee has called for a new era of human rights and gender justice, stressing that the lives of black women and girls also matter.
COVID-19: ‘Freedom of expression essential’ People have died as many governments have used the COVID-pandemic to repress expression in violation of their human rights obligations, a UN expert tells the Human Rights Council.
DRC: ADF attacks Attacks by the ADF armed group that have left nearly 800 dead over the past 18 months in the DRC may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
China/ Hong Kong security law We are alarmed that arrests are already being made under the law. Definition of the offences are vague and overly broad, which may lead to discriminatry or arbitrary interpretation and enforcement of the law.
Ethiopia protests Killing of singer and activist Hachalu Hundessa sparks protests which worryingly have increasingly taken on an ethnic undertone. The authorities shut down the Internet, making it extremely difficult to verify the number of casualties.
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Lebanon crisis Bachelet urges the Government, political parties and financial sector to work together to ensure the poorest and most vulnerable are protected amid Lebanon’s economic crisis.
Srebrenica genocide As we mark the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, accountability and reconciliation need to be addressed with concrete action and renewed urgency, UN Human Rights Chief urges.
Iraq killings Shocking murder in Iraq of security analyst Hisham Al-Hushami highlights the risks faced by people who dare to challenge powerful militias in Iraq and are vocal about pervasive impunity and corruption.
DRC: ADF attacks Attacks by the ADF armed group that have left nearly 800 dead over the past 18 months in the DRC may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Ethiopia protests Killing of singer and activist Hachalu Hundessa sparks protests which worryingly have increasingly taken on an ethnic undertone. The authorities shut down the Internet, making it extremely difficult to verify the number of casualties.
China/ Hong Kong security law We are alarmed that arrests are already being made under the law. Definition of the offences are vague and overly broad, which may lead to discriminatry or arbitrary interpretation and enforcement of the law.
Israel: Annexation plans Bachelet calls on Israel not to proceed with its plans to illegally annex a swathe of occupied Palestinian territory, and warns it would have a disastrous impact on human rights of Palestinians and across the region.
Global Pride 2020 In a video message commemorating Global Pride 2020, the High Commissioner recalled the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on LGBTI people. She stated we at a "hinge moment", with an opportunity "for collective reflection and potentially transformative change."
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COVID-19: ‘Freedom of expression essential’ People have died as many governments have used the COVID-pandemic to repress expression in violation of their human rights obligations, a UN expert tells the Human Rights Council.
Freedom of assembly A UN expert tells the Human Rights Council that assembly and association rights empower communities to respond and adapt to changes in a crisis such as COVID-19 and to be better prepared for future emergencies.
Belarus: Protest crackdowns The UN’s human rights expert on Belarus calls for international support for human rights defenders in the country ahead of the 9 August presidential election.
COVID-19: Corruption UN experts say governments must guard against human rights abuses linked to corruption in procurement of goods to fight COVID-19.
Toxic chemical exports Wealthy countries must stop exporting their banned toxic chemicals to poorer nations, says a UN expert, backed by 35 fellow experts of the Human Rights Council.
Remembering Srebrenica Governments must act to prevent the unchallenged and unchecked intolerance, discrimination and violence that can lead to genocide, UN experts say ahead of the Srebrenica 25th anniversary Memorial Day on 11 July.
COVID-19: Brazil A UN housing expert tells the Human Rights Council Brazil must end all evictions during the health crisis, after more than 2,000 families were thrown out of their homes.
Iraq: Internal displacement The Government must redouble efforts to help the 1.4 million people still displaced within the country, a UN rights expert tells the Human Rights Council.
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Panel on accountability for women in humanitarian settings The Council held first panel of its annual full-day discussion on women’s rights, focussing on accountability for women and girls in humanitarian settings
Council holds dialogue on freedom of opinion and expression The Human Rights Council also concludes its discussion on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
Council holds dialogue on human rights in Belarus The Council also concludes its dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Council holds dialogue on international solidarity The Council also began its dialogue on transnational corporations, and concluded its debate on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Council holds dialogue on extrajudicial and summary executions It also discussed peaceful assembly and association, and concluded its dialogue internally displaced persons
Council holds panel on emerging digital technologies The Council also began its dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on human rights of internally displaced persons
Council holds dialogue on extreme poverty The Human Rights Council also concluded its dialogue with the Working Group on Discrimination against women and girls
War-torn Idlib region faces global pandemic UN Syria Commission of Inquiry reports on rampant human rights violations and war crimes as Idlib faces the pandemic
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Black women's lives also matter The UN women’s rights committee has called for a new era of human rights and gender justice, stressing that the lives of black women and girls also matter.
SPT: Strengthening national preventive mechanisms UN torture prevention body has called for the role of domestic monitoring bodies, officially known as National Preventive Mechanisms (NPMs), to be strengthened in critical situations.
Mali: Female genital mutilation Mali’s failure to criminalise female genital mutilation (FGM), allowing the inhuman practice to continue with impunity, resulted in the violation of women’s fundamental rights, the UN women’s rights committee has found.
US obligations to end racial discrimination The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has called on the United States to uphold its international obligations under the Convention.
La COVID-19 y los tratados La Alta Comisionada alabó en su discurso la labor esencial y esclarecedora que realizan los presidentes de los órganos creados en virtud de tratados, antes de que se iniciara la revisión de los órganos de tratados de la Asamblea General.
Revisión de los órganos creados en virtud de tratados La Alta Comisionada alabó, durante su intervención en el lanzamiento de la revisión de los órganos de tratados de la Asamblea General, la valiosa labor de los comités, al facilitar a las víctimas un espacio esencial de justicia y reparación y al ofrecer a los Estados miembro recomendaciones y orientaciones exhaustivas.
Derecho a la educación en España El Comité de los Derechos del Niño de las Naciones Unidas ha saludado la rápida decisión de España de permitir que una niña marroquí de 12 años asista a un colegio en la ciudad autónoma de Melilla, sentando así un precedente positivo para más de 80 casos en similares circunstancias sin resolver.
Italy discriminates against female firefighters Italy violated the right of a woman to become a permanent firefighter by imposing an unnecessary and unreasonable height requirement, Human Rights Committee has found.
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Accountability for women and girls in humanitarian settings The Deputy High Commissioner spoke to the Human Rights Council about women’s and girls’ rights in the context of humanitarian settings. "Let us use the opportunity of today’s discussion to reaffirm our commitment to their rights, to our common future based on those rights and to the sustainable development outcomes that we have together pledged to achieve," she said.
Srebrenica genocide As we mark the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, accountability and reconciliation need to be addressed with concrete action and renewed urgency, UN Human Rights Chief urges.
Human rights to water and sanitation The Deputy High Comissioner spoke at the launch by UN Water of the Sustainable Development Goal 6 Global Acceleration Framework (SDG 6 focuses on clean water and sanitation). She noted the event took place in the tenth anniversary of the General Assembly's formal recognition of the human rights to water and sanitation.
Digital technologies and human rights The Deputy High-Commissioner spoke to the Human Rights Council about both the opportunities and challenges that new and emerging digital technologies present to human rights.
Climate change and the rights of people with disabilities At the Human Rights Council, the Deputy High Commissioner spoke at a panel discussion on the impact of climate change in the human rights of people with disabilities.
Human Rights and Peace Operations “Human rights are central to the Council’s mandate to maintain international peace and security”, the High Commissioner told the Security Council during an open debate on peace operation and human rights.
Los derechos humanos en Crimea, Nicaragua y Venezuela La Alta Comisionada presentó al Consejo de Derechos Humanos la introducción a los informes sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en la República Autónoma de Crimea y la ciudad de Sebastopol (Ucrania) y en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. También presentó una actualización oral sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en Nicaragua.
Children and the environment At the Human Rights Council, the High Commissioner emphasised that the Office "will continue to work for a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment – one in which all children everywhere, both now and in the future, will be able to thrive and grow"
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Comité de Derechos Humanos / 129° período de sesiones de: 29-06-2020
a: 24-07-2020
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Consejo de Derechos Humanos / 44° período de sesiones de: 30-06-2020
a: 17-07-2020
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Comité contra la Tortura / 69° período de sesiones de: 13-07-2020
a: 24-07-2020
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Informe de Derechos Humanos 2019 en inglés
Annual appeal 2020*
Celebración del 30º aniversario de la Convención sobre los derechos del niño
Defiende hoy los derechos de alguien
Personas con albinismo: seres humanos y no fantasmas
Free & Equal: campaña en pro de la igualdad de las personas lesbianas, gay, bisexuales y transgénero
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