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Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, wants your input.
Send your contribution for his upcoming report on unlawful killings of #LGBTIQ + persons.
Deadline: 7 June
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Repression of peaceful #InternationalSolidarity demonstrations is against #HumanRights : UN experts commend youth for coming together peacefully to call for change and demand peace. #CeasefireNOW

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UN experts express concern over reports of ongoing retaliations against #HumanRights defenders because of their opposition to the development of the Chhaya Center retail & entertainment complex in #Nepal 🇳🇵.

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UN experts call for meaningful consultations on #Ecuador ’s mining projects, aligned with #HumanRights standards & including all communities potentially affected, while respecting their right to freedoms of expression & assembly.

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#Iran 🇮🇷: UN experts alarmed by death sentence imposed on peaceful activist Mahmoud Mehrabi, demand moratorium on death penalty: 'These punishments are completely inconsistent with international law and #HumanRights standards'.

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UN expert Reem Alsalem UNSR Violence Against Women and Girls welcomes the new European Directive European Parliament on combating violence against women & domestic violence, & urges action on some critical shortcomings for the Directive to reach its full potential.

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Looking for information on how #HumanRights experts work?

Discover three new leaflets illustrating the role & activities of Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council, including country visits & thematic activities.

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The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will conduct an official visit to Canada 🇨🇦, from 13 to 24 May 2024, to assess the situation regarding deprivation of liberty in the country.

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🇺🇸: UNSR_Education deeply troubled by violent crackdown on peaceful student protests across US campuses. Arrests, police violence & various sanctions particularly target pro-Palestinian demonstrators exercising their rights to assembly & expression.

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#Israel ’s operation in eastern #Rafah is a culmination of 7-month campaign to forcibly transfer & destroy #Gaza ’s population - say UN experts, urging States with influence stop the assault and end flow of arms to Israel:

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UN experts decry threats against Int'l Criminal Court by US/Israeli officials: 'Distressing to see threats against ICC for pursuing justice when the world should be uniting to end bloodshed in Gaza & seek justice for the killed, injured or taken hostage'.

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UN experts on people of African descent will visit Colombia from 15 to 24 May 2024 to assess the overall #HumanRights situation of Africans and people of African descent in 🇨🇴.

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'The time to reinvigorate the multilateral system to advance #minorityrights is now' - in his Position Paper, UN Special Rapporteur Nicolas Levrat calls for the integration of minority issues in the #PactfortheFuture .

#2024UNCSC #SummitOfTheFuture
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Somalia: UN Independent Expert on 🇸🇴 Isha Dyfan urges more steps to promote inclusive governance, #HumanRights and accountability, particularly for cases of sexual and gender-based violence.

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UN experts warn that former Guantánamo Bay detainee Saeed Bakhouche faces re-victimisation in #Algeria . Risks include unfair trial & renewed arbitrary detention, violating his rights to humane treatment & physical/mental rehabilitation as a torture victim.
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UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women & children Siobhán Mullally (UN SR Trafficking in Persons) wants your input.
Send your contribution for her upcoming report on gender, peace and security.

🗓️Deadline: 20 June
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Overturning Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction sends disturbing message to women survivors of sexual violence:
UN experts dismayed at how women survivors have been failed after risking everything to come forward & share their ordeal. #MeToo

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UN Independent Expert on #Somalia Isha Dyfan returns to 🇸🇴 on official visit until 10 May to take stock of the #HumanRights situation in the country.

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I am co-organising with OHCHR two side events in Geneva:
1) Right to development and ESCRs (13 May): indico.un.org/event/1011558/
2) Role of business in realising the right to development (14 May): indico.un.org/event/1011559/

Pl join us in Room XXIV if in Geneva next week Pradeep Wagle

UN expert Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng demands end to impunity for attacks on medical facilities & workers in conflict zones: Urgent action needed to protect health & aid workers, provide access to healthcare & ensure justice & reparation for victims.

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