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The United Nations #HumanRights office is led by High Commissioner @volker_turk. Follow us on FB, IG & Tiktok at unitednationshumanrights.

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As the world continues to face accumulating challenges, I urge everyone to remember:

Transcending them requires solidarity & compassion, focusing on our shared values: equality, justice & dignity. Values that span every generation, culture & continent.

Charles University

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: We deplore the 21 November attack on Bamenyam market in western Cameroon in which 9 civilians were killed & at least 10 were abducted.

Impartial & independent investigations must be carried out into all attacks; those abducted should be promptly freed.

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Your voice matters!
Personalize your photo with the human rights statement that resonates with you. Share it on your social media using and to amplify the call for human rights and make your priorities heard.

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.COP28 UAE is a matter of life & death.

Leaders must deliver an ambitious course correct: hold polluting nations accountable & ensure all Governments strengthen their emission targets to do their

It's the only way out. The only way to protect our rights & future.

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The ‘war on drugs’ approach has failed. Treating people who use drugs as criminals isn't the solution.

Drug use has taken too many lives. But so have poorly constructed drug policies.

Govts must ensure drug policies focus on support, not coercion & fear👉ow.ly/Xcbp50QavHJ

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🇺🇳 Human Rights Chief Volker Türk will visit from 23-24 November to discuss challenges w/ Govt officials, lawmakers, civil society, academia & students

He will also join a United Nations Human Rights Council retreat to strengthen human rights protection in the 🌏

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Mark your calendar! 📢Join us at the Regional meeting for Asia Pacific on the International Decade for People of , focused on recognition, justice and development.

📅15-16 January 2024.

Register: ow.ly/SHHf50QaouW

Mark your calendar! 📢Join us at the Regional meeting for Asia Pacific on the International Decade for People of #AfricanDescent, focused on recognition, justice and development. 📅15-16 January 2024. Register: ow.ly/SHHf50QaouW
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In the new OHCHR-UNEP Environmental Rights Bulletin the High Commissioner calls for a economy to address climate change, biodiversity loss & pollution through transparent, accountable financing that prioritizes rights
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In the new OHCHR-UNEP Environmental Rights Bulletin the High Commissioner calls for a #HumanRights economy to address climate change, biodiversity loss & pollution through transparent, accountable financing that prioritizes rights #HealthyEnvironmentForAll ow.ly/CI2a50Qagxa
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War. Discrimination. Poverty. Shrinking civic space. . 5 immense challenges threatening our world, fueling each other.

The solution does not rest on one person, company or Gov't, it lies in working together.

We need empathy & action. We need human rights.

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📢 Join us for Human Rights 75 on December 11-12! 🤝 Whether in person or virtually, be part of the global dialogue & spread the word. 🌍

The Virtual Human Rights Centre is now open for registration! 🖥️👇 Click below to register & access livestreams & debates.

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“Without a free press, there is no democracy.”
Mexican journalist Ricardo Hernández, 2023 Breach/Valdez Award winner, sheds light on the challenges journalists face in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for the press.
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“Without a free press, there is no democracy.” Mexican journalist Ricardo Hernández, 2023 Breach/Valdez Award winner, sheds light on the challenges journalists face in Mexico, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for the press. 👉 ow.ly/JG9K50Q9QHx
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We all desire safety, dignity & freedom.

Yet racism, xenophobia & discrimination are thriving — causing untold suffering & denying humans these basic needs.

We need empathy & unity. Respect for fundamental human rights should not be up for debate.

We all desire safety, dignity & freedom. Yet racism, xenophobia & discrimination are thriving — causing untold suffering & denying humans these basic needs. We need empathy & unity. Respect for fundamental human rights should not be up for debate. #Act4RightsNow #HumanRights75
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At least 10,000 civilians, incl over 560 children, have been killed since the start of Russia's full-scale armed attack on Ukraine in February last year. Read the latest 👇

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Peace must be our primary goal. And human rights offer the steps to achieve it — by addressing grievances, inequalities & exclusion.
 
Rights are our tools for peace.

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On 20-28 November UN international human rights expert Antonia Urrejola, appointed to review the implementation of the 2016 Peace Agreement, will visit to meet officials, former combatants, representatives of civil society, academia & diplomatic community…

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Children cannot keep paying the unbearable price of war.

There is no room for confusion in international law. All leaders are required to protect children.

Prioritising their wellbeing, ensuring their rights & safeguarding their future is not an option — it is an obligation.

Children cannot keep paying the unbearable price of war. There is no room for confusion in international law. All leaders are required to protect children. Prioritising their wellbeing, ensuring their rights & safeguarding their future is not an option — it is an obligation.
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Appalled by horrendous events of past 48hrs in .

Killings of so many in schools-turned-shelters, amid fleeing of hundreds from Al-Shifa Hospital & ongoing displacement in southern Gaza, wholly inconsistent with protection of civilians required under international law.

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