La iniciativa mundial emprendida hace 26 años para erradicar la polio...
En el Día Mundial de la Poliomelitis, UNICEF Comité Español recuerda en el marco de su campaña ‘Ahora no podemos parar’ que con el...
“Development needs access to justice” – UN Rapporteur on the independence...
NEW YORK (23 October 2014) – People’s demands for development are not limited to purely economic claims, but include claims of justice, non-discrimination and...
Online mass-surveillance: “Protect right to privacy even when countering terrorism” –...
NEW YORK (23 October 2014) – United Nations human rights expert Ben Emmerson today urged Governments currently engaged on mass surveillance of the internet...
La FELGTB felicita a los colectivos LGTB canarios por conseguir la...
El PP debería escuchar a sus corporaciones en Canarias y Andalucía, donde apoyan los derechos trans, e impulsar medidas desde el Gobierno central
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Miles de dominicanos en inminente riesgo de apatridia
- El gobierno de República Dominicana reconoce la necesidad de ampliar el plazo concedido para que los ciudadanos, fundamentalmente descendientes de haitianos, no inscritos...
Enforced disappearances: High time to act at a global level, two...
NEW YORK / GENEVA (23 October 2014) – “Time for promises has passed. Now it is the time to act,” said the Chairs of...
Statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad...
New York, 22 October 2014I am honoured to present this report on the work accomplished by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human...
Primera condena a un pedófilo gracias a la niña virtual Sweetie
La Fundación Tierra de hombres celebra la condena del primer pedófilo relacionado con Sweetie, la niña virtual con la que se localizó a más...
A drone is not a cop – UN rights expert concerned...
NEW YORK / GENEVA (23 October 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, raised concern about...
Migrant detention «abuse» can scar children for life
BANGKOK, 21 October 2014 (IRIN) - An increasing number of migrant children are being detained in countries where they are seeking asylum despite a growing body...
Iran: Police disperses sit-in staged by Nasrin Sotoudeh to protest persecution...
Paris, 21 October 2014 – Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh, renowned human rights lawyer and 2012 Sakharov Prize laureate, staged a sit-in in front of the...
Tras la última agresión en Murcia, No Te Prives y FELGTB...
Una ley educativa como la que propone el Ministerio de Educación que obvia la diversidad sexual y de género es connivente con la LGTBfobia
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Forensic services must be independent from law enforcement agencies – UN...
NEW YORK (21 October 2014) – To be ‘effective’, an investigation into torture must be prompt, impartial, independent and thorough, but that seems to...
UN Committee against Torture: Time for States to make 30-year-old treaty...
NEW YORK / GENEVA (21 October 2014) – The adoption of the Convention against Torture 30 years ago was a major advance in human...
Tackling corruption a priority in fight against torture – UN rights...
NEW YORK/GENEVA (21 October 2014) - States must do more to tackle corruption as part of efforts to prevent and eliminate torture and ill-treatment,...
Niños desplazados por los enfrentamientos en Ain Al Arab/Kobane reciben suministros...
Alepo, Siria, 20 de octubre 2014 – UNICEF ha entregado suministros en la zona norte de Alepo para salvar la vida de miles de...
Stop tortura en Uzbequistán: Amnistía Internacional sale a la calle en...
Activistas de Amnistía Internacional en diferentes partes del mundo se dirigen hoy, 21 de octubre, a las embajadas de Uzbequistán para entregar casi 200.000...
Iran: Human Rights Lawyer Sotoudeh to stage sit-in outside Bar Association
Dear Compatriots and human rights activists,
The 2nd Branch of the Disciplinary Investigation Panel of the Bar has sentenced me, Nasrin Sotoudeh, lawyer, to...
Ebola hits West Africa food security
KENEMA/FREETOWN/DAKAR, 20 October 2014 (IRIN) - West Africa's Ebola outbreak, which has been disrupting agricultural and market activities, threatens to erode food security and...
Ebola – Can you quarantine West Africa?
NEW YORK, 20 October 2014 (IRIN) - Since the death of Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan in Texas on 8 October and the Ebola...
Asia’s first IDP policy – from theory to practice
JALALABAD, 20 October 2014 (IRIN) - "Why does it allow them to stay?" the man asked incredulously. "They should be going back to their...
Iran: Judicial harassment against human rights lawyer Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh
New information
IRN 006 / 0910 / OBS 108.5
Disciplinary harassment / Suspension from the bar
Iran
October 20, 2014
The Observatory...
Detroit’s water shut-offs target the poor, vulnerable and African Americans
DETROIT / NEW YORK (20 October 2014) – The unprecedented scale of water shut-offs taking place in Detroit is disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable...
Tragedy of even greater proportions in Iraq should be urgently prevented
NEW YORK/GENEVA (20 October 2014) - On Sunday 19 October, the UN Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) for Human Rights, Mr. Ivan Šimonović, concluded his week-long...
Venezuela / DD HH: Alto Comisionado de la ONU pide liberar...
GINEBRA (20 de octubre de 2014) – El Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, expresó este...
Ghana’s record on women’s rights to face scrutiny by UN committee
GENEVA (20 October 2014) – Ghana’s record on women’s rights will be examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of...
En una carta al Comité de Derechos Humanos de la ONU,...
La legislación española contiene elementos capaces de erosionar la libertad de expresión y opinión. Varias organizaciones defensoras de la libertad de expresión, prensa e...
Zeid condemns expulsion of top UN human rights official in DRC
GENEVA/NEW YORK (19 October 2014) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Sunday said he regretted and condemned...
Iraq: Alarming rise in use of death penalty – UN report
GENEVA/BAGHDAD (19 October 2014) - – A report published Sunday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human...
Liberians in US face worsening Ebola stigma
NEW YORK, 17 October 2014 (IRIN) - Africans living in the US from the three Ebola-affected countries of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, are...
