Iran: UN rights experts appeal for urgent medical care for detained...
GENEVA (10 April 2014) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today expressed alarm at the denial of medical care to two...
DPRK: UN expert embarks on a new stage of human rights...
Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Marzuki Darusman, at the end...
Ayuntamientos de la Comunitat Valenciana piden que la MINURSO vigile los...
Hasta el momento, diez Ayuntamientos han firmado la moción para que la MINURSO tenga competencia para vigilar los Derechos Humanos en el Sahara Occidental...
Filling Myanmar’s Rakhine aid gap
YANGON, 9 April 2014 (IRIN) - Aid agencies are trying to find practical ways of getting humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of people...
Myanmar peace and development scorecard
HLA LAUNG PAN, 8 April 2014 (IRIN) - Three years after Myanmar’s first nominally civilian government in decades came to power, many of the...
Lack of funding threatens aid response in Iraq’s Anbar Province
DUBAI, 9 April 2014 (IRIN) - Funding shortages are threatening relief operations in Iraq's troubled Anbar Province, where violent clashes have led to the...
Access to education an added challenge for refugees in Egypt
CAIRO, 8 April 2014 (IRIN) - As the number of Syrians in Egypt rises, refugees say it has become increasingly difficult to find places...
UN strengthens key human rights reporting system
GENEVA (10 April 2014) – International human rights reporting received a significant boost after the UN General Assembly on Wednesday approved steps to strengthen...
DRC: Some progress in the fight against impunity but rape still...
NEW YORK / KINSHASA (9 April 2014) – Rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remain very serious concerns,...
Clothing brands fail Rana Plaza survivors
Two weeks before the first anniversary of the devastating building collapse, clothing brands contributions to Donor Trust Fund remain shockingly low.
As the first anniversary of...
El padre Angel pide a los diputados que quiten las cuchillas...
El presidente de Mensajeros de la Paz visita el Centro de Estancia Temporal donde afirma haber visto muchas caras de felicidad.
Madrid, 9 de...
Lithuanian ex-president’s lifelong politics ban ‘not objective’ – UN body
GENEVA (9 April 2014) - Lithuania violated the political rights of ex-president Rolandas Paksas when it introduced a rule to ban anyone who had...
International Roma Day: UN expert urges full inclusion of Roma in...
GENEVA (8 April 2014) – On International Roma Day, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák, calls on all European States and...
New Zealand: UN expert group raises concern despite legal safeguards against...
AUCKLAND (7 April 2014) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention today expressed concern at specific areas of deprivation of liberty in...
Ratify treaty on migrant workers’ rights, UN experts urge States
GENEVA (7 April 2014) –UN experts have issued a renewed appeal to all countries to sign up to a landmark treaty on the rights...
Yemen aid work ever more risky
SANA'A, 2 April 2014 (IRIN) - The 25 March kidnapping and release of two UN workers has underlined the risks aid workers in Yemen face.Humanitarians can...
Myanmar: UN expert raises alarm on Rakhine State
GENEVA (7 April 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, today pressed the alarm...
Typhoon Haiyan: UN human rights expert calls for urgent debt relief...
GENEVA (8 April 2014) – United Nations human rights expert Cephas Lumina today urged international creditors to cancel Philippines’ debt and to provide unconditional...
“Participation, transparency and accountability are key in law-making” – UN Special...
GENEVA (7 April 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi, expresses concern that the...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on the International...
7 April 2014Twenty years after the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda, the horror has not diminished. As a former judge for over eight...
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville,...
1) Central African Republic
We have received more detailed information on the incident involving Chadian soldiers in Bangui on March 29, following an initial...
UN rights expert urges Kazakhstan to end mandatory registration of religious...
ASTANA (5 April 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Heiner Bielefeldt today called on the Government of Kazakhstan to end the mandatory registration of...
Concern over polling in Afghan schools and clinics
KABUL, 2 April 2014 (IRIN) - The recent spate of Taliban-led attacks against electoral targets in Afghanistan, with the presidential vote just days away,...
Human rights: UN expert on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea...
GENEVA / TOKYO (3 April 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of...
Impunidad, fuerza excesiva y vínculos con el extremista Amanecer Dorado lacran...
La investigación de Amnistía Internacional sobre la actuación policial en Grecia ha puesto de manifiesto una larga tradición de impunidad, racismo arraigado y violencia...
Temor de que el gobierno reanude la represión durante el Gran...
Mientras todas las miradas del mundo deportivo están puestas en el Gran Premio de Fórmula 1 de Bahréin de este fin de semana, Amnistía Internacional...
No respetar las promesas del Tratado sobre el Comercio de Armas...
Millones de personas en todo el mundo seguirán sufriendo las letales consecuencias de un comercio global de armas mal regulado hasta que muchos más gobiernos...
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Growing up in war – the DRC’s child soldiers
KIWANJA (NORTH KIVU PROVINCE), 31 March 2014 (IRIN) - When he was seven Dikembe Muamba* became a soldier on the orders of his uncle,...
Venezuela: La espiral de violencia amenaza el estado de derecho
Venezuela se arriesga a afrontar una de las peores amenazas al estado de derecho de las últimas décadas, si las diversas fuerzas políticas no...
