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Experts of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Welcome Germany’s Increase in Social Benefits, Raise Questions on the Guardianship Law and Coercion in Psychiatric Facilities

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Experts of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Welcome Germany’s Increase in Social Benefits, Raise Questions on the Guardianship Law and Coercion in Psychiatric Facilities 30 August 2023 Meeting Summaries   The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its consideration of the combined second and third periodic report of Germany, on its implementation of the…

First Person: Caught in the crossfire in Ukraine

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home First Person: Caught in the crossfire in Ukraine 30 August 2023 © UNDP/Oleksandr Ratushniak The northern city of Chernihiv, Ukraine, has been the target of strikes since the first months of the war. Ugochi Daniels, Deputy Director General for Operations with the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM), vividly describes what it was like spending a week in Ukraine and Moldova,…

Mexico: Rights experts ‘outraged’ over attacks on women activists

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Mexico: Rights experts ‘outraged’ over attacks on women activists 30 August 2023 Centro de Estudios Ecunémicos Thousands of women in Mexico search for their missing children. A group of UN independent human rights experts on Wednesday urged the Government of Mexico to investigate and prosecute those who attack and kill women activists searching for their missing relatives…

UNICEF urges support for children, as wildfires rage across Greece

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home UNICEF urges support for children, as wildfires rage across Greece 30 August 2023 Unsplash/Анасмайстер Пожары в Афинах, Греция. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday called for urgent assistance for children caught up in wildfires in Greece, considered to be the worst Europe has seen since the turn of the century…

Guterres calls for end to ‘atrocious crime’ of enforced disappearances

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Guterres calls for end to ‘atrocious crime’ of enforced disappearances 30 August 2023 UNIC/Mexico A protest rally in Mexico City on the case of Ayoitzinapa rural school attended by the 43 disappeared students.. UN Secretary-General António Guterres marked Wednesday’s International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance by condemning the “atrocious crime” and urging all Member…

‘Not the time to forget’ Central African Republic

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home ‘Not the time to forget’ Central African Republic 30 August 2023 © UNOCHA/Enzo Senga Poor infrastructure and insecurity remain a major challenge for humanitarians in the Central African Republic. Pictured here is a UN convoy travelling through the Haute-Kotto Prefecture. Attacks by armed groups against security forces in the Central African Republic (CAR), combined with increased food and…

UN Women welcomes FIFA action against Spanish football federation chief

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN Women welcomes FIFA action against Spanish football federation chief 30 August 2023 © Wiki/Alejandro Reguero Spanish footballer Jennifer Hermoso (right) plays with Atlético Madrid in 2018. The UN agency championing gender equality has underlined its strong stance against abuse or harassment of women taking part in sport.…

UN expert urges immediate review of discredited UK sentencing scheme

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN expert urges immediate review of discredited UK sentencing scheme 30 August 2023 © Unsplash/John Cameron The rear wall of Wandsworth prison in London, UK. A UN expert on torture has called on the UK Government to conduct an urgent review of sentences imposed on prisoners who are being held indefinitely under the discredited Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) sentencing scheme…

Rights experts call for second UN Decade for People of African Descent

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home Rights experts call for second UN Decade for People of African Descent 30 August 2023 PAHO The International Day for People of African Descent is being celebrated for the first time on 31 August 2021. Human rights experts on Wednesday urged the UN General Assembly to declare a second International Decade for People of African Descent starting in 2025 as more action is needed to combat…

UN chief ‘firmly condemns’ Gabon coup, notes reports of election abuses

1 year 8 months ago Breadcrumb Home UN chief ‘firmly condemns’ Gabon coup, notes reports of election abuses 30 August 2023 UN Photo/Cia Pak Ali Bongo Ondimba, President of the Gabonese Republic, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 77th session. The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday firmly condemned the on-going coup attempt in Gabon, while acknowledging that “serious infringements of fundamental freedoms”…