Derechos Humanos

GENEVA (25 June 2014) – Three UN experts* on the human rights to water and sanitation, adequate housing, and extreme poverty and human rights...

NAIROBI, 20 June 2014 (IRIN) - As Kenya continues to round up and detain refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers in a controversial anti-terrorism operation, fears are...

SIRAHA, 20 June 2014 (IRIN) - The Nepal government’s commitment to treat uterine prolapse, a debilitating life-long gynaecological condition, sparked an uptick in hysterectomies,...

El pronóstico favorable para 2014 se ve amenazado al huir la población de sus casas y explotaciones agrícolas durante la principal cosecha 25 de...

PHNOM PENH/GENEVA (25 June 2014) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Professor Surya P. Subedi, on Tuesday...

GENEVA (25 June 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced Wednesday that three distinguished experts have agreed to advise and...

GENEVA (25 June 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteurs on torture and the right to health today urged the Parliament of Israel not to...

KHARTOUM/GENEVA (25 June 2014) – The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Mashood Adebayo Baderin, at the end...

- Más de un millón de sursudaneses han abandonado sus hogares en los últimos seis meses convirtiéndose en desplazados internos, según ACNUR  -...

Every day, in prisons, police stations and places of detention both official and secret, women, men and children are deliberately and atrociously tortured. They...

  Erbil, 24 de junio de 2014.- El agua limpia y la higiene están en el centro de la respuesta humanitaria de UNICEF para los...

(GENEVA 24 June 2014) – The United Nations Working Group* of Experts on People of African Descent will visit the Kingdom of the Netherlands...

GENEVA (24 June 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklós Haraszti, welcomed the release from...

24 June 2014   GENEVA – In a major initiative that fundamentally changes how anti-malaria drugs are procured, the Global Fund is entering into new...

Una situación alarmante que puede empeorar   La magnitud de la crisis de seguridad alimentaria originada por los conflictos en Sudán del Sur está...

Tortura, pena de muerte y libertad de expresión deben figurar en la agenda de Rajoy para Guinea EcuatorialAmnistía Internacional pide al presidente español que...

La organización presenta un informe en el que analiza la situación de la infancia, pone de relieve su valor social y propone medidas concretas...

The UNAMI* human rights team continues its efforts to verify the numerous alleged human rights violations that have been taking place in Iraq, since...

MBABANE, 17 June 2014 (IRIN) - The threat of Swaziland being suspended from a US preferential trade agreement for poor progress in meeting democratic...

MALAKAL, 16 June 2014 (IRIN) - Civilians displaced by brutal fighting in South Sudan are ignoring calls from government officials to return to their...

After a two-day public hearing, the jury of the People's Tribunal to assess human rights abuses faced by workers in the Indonesian garment industry,...

GENEVA (23 June 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said she was “shocked and alarmed” by the verdicts and heavy...

DHAKA, 19 June 2014 (IRIN) - Tensions are rising as the deteriorating humanitarian situation and limited access to livelihoods for Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar’s...

JUBA, 19 June 2014 (IRIN) - Across a swath of South Sudan, fields where green shoots should be poking through the wet soil lie...

BERTOUA, 19 June 2014 (IRIN) - Frustrated by their living conditions, refugees and other migrants are streaming into towns in eastern Cameroon in search...

· Las mujeres y su educación son las menos atendidas durante la guerra y las que más sufren • Con motivo del Día Mundial...

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation...

Bogotá, 20 de junio de 2014. Hoy, día mundial de la persona refugiada, la Campaña por la Hospitalidad señala que permanece en nuestro continente...

DHAKA, 19 June 2014 (IRIN) - Tensions are rising as the deteriorating humanitarian situation and limited access to livelihoods for Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar’s...

JUBA, 19 June 2014 (IRIN) - Across a swath of South Sudan, fields where green shoots should be poking through the wet soil lie...