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UN experts demand truth and accountability after Indigenous leader Brooklyn Rivera dies in custody: Nicaragua
New Questions and Answers paper sets out path towards torture-free trade
Indigenous Peoples gravely vulnerable to Ebola epidemic, warn UN independent experts
UN experts condemn military trial in acid attack case targeting human rights defender Andrie Yunus: Indonesia
UN albinism expert to visit Pakistan
UN experts raise alarm over treatment of political prisoners, urge medical intervention: Belarus
Nicaragua Death In Custody
Specialised judicial units in Haiti
UN expert gravely concerned by persistent violence in several regions of Central African Republic
Experta de la ONU sobre la lepra realizará visita oficial: Colombia
UN experts alarmed by escalating settler terror and displacement: Occupied Palestinian Territory
Silence is not consent to child marriage, UN committee condemns: Afghanistan
UN Group of Experts appalled by Brooklyn Rivera’s death, demands accountability: Nicaragua
Australian Court allows first-ever UN expert intervention in landmark environmental case
UN experts call for full justice and accountability twenty years after the Crimes of May: Brazil
UN experts welcome UN General Assembly resolution supporting world court’s climate change ruling
Obstruction must give way to efficient and independent justice for all says UN expert: Poland
Government should close the gap between policy and practice to ensure full equality for LGBT people, says expert: Mongolia
Protection of children online needs to be done right – UN Human Rights Office issues guidelines for child safety online
On Brazil visit, UN Experts to provide guidance on protecting Indigenous Peoples in voluntary isolation
Türk warns against dangerous escalation and urges return to negotiations: Ukraine
Prison overcrowding may amount to inhuman or degrading treatment, UN torture prevention body warns: France
UN Committee on Migrant Workers to review Ecuador, Ghana and Gambia
UN expert welcomes Colombian Supreme Court ruling recognising commercial sexual exploitation as part of system of violence
States must halt involuntary returns to Afghanistan: Türk
Urgent structural reforms needed to settle historical debt to Afro-Mexican peoples, UN experts say: Mexico
Experts: Chile must maintain and improve public policies relating to the National Plan for the Search for Victims of Enforced Disappearance during dictatorship
Gdeim Izik cases reveal torture, coerced confessions, and failure to investigate, UN committee finds: Morocco
Special Rapporteur on torture warns of persistent risks for Palestinian detainees, implores Israel to change course
Netherlands violated child’s right to privacy by storing his DNA profile, UN committee finds
UN experts alarmed by yearlong detention of woman human rights defender Ruth López: El Salvador
UN experts alarmed by complicity of online pornographic platforms and other intermediaries in sexual exploitation of women and girls
UN expert commends economic development and digitalisation, urges decisive action for sustainable participatory economy: Kazakhstan
UN expert to assess human rights of LGBT persons: Mongolia
UN expert on independence of judges and lawyers to visit Poland
Independent UN body finds systemic racism against people of African descent: Colombia
Rural transformation risks leaving peasants behind, political will needed to move forward, say UN experts: Ghana
UN experts alarmed by crackdown on families of disappeared persons and civil society: Algeria
UN expert alarmed by systemic erosion of the right to protest: United Kingdom
Türk urges repeal of special military tribunal law passed by Israeli Knesset
Experts urge Equatorial Guinea to uphold international obligations and halt returns of those at risk
Joint Declaration on Sudan – Adopted by the Joint Fact-Finding Mission of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the…
UN torture prevention body to make first visit to places of detention: France
UN Working Group gravely concerned by enforced disappearance and subsequent death in custody of Víctor Hugo Quero Navas: Venezuela
UN experts urge Nepal to halt mass forced evictions in Kathmandu
UN experts on people of African descent to visit Mexico
Israel must immediately release Gaza-bound Flotilla activists, say UN experts
UN expert calls for long-term vision to realise the right to health: Maldives

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