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World News in Brief: Crisis deepens for Mali’s children, human rights updates from Brazil, Montenegro

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Crisis deepens for Mali’s children, human rights updates from Brazil, Montenegro 26 September 2023 © UNICEF/Tiécoura N’Daou Almost a quarter of Mali's population suffers from moderate or acute food insecurity. In Mali, one million children under five are at risk of malnutrition amid polio and measles outbreaks, increased armed violence and displacement, the UN…

Ban smoking and vaping in schools worldwide urges WHO

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Ban smoking and vaping in schools worldwide urges WHO 26 September 2023 © WHO WHO says that roughly half of all children globally are reported to breathe in air polluted by tobacco smoke. Young people continue to be “relentlessly” targeted with tobacco and nicotine products, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday, in a call to ban smoking and vaping “whether sitting in class,…

AFTERNOON - Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela Tells the Human Rights Council that Human Rights Violations Are Continuing in Venezuela, Reflecting a Policy of Repressing Dissent

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home AFTERNOON - Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela Tells the Human Rights Council that Human Rights Violations Are Continuing in Venezuela, Reflecting a Policy of Repressing Dissent 25 September 2023 Meeting Summaries Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue with the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine The Human…

MORNING - Human Rights Council Hears that the Special Procedures Have Achieved Gender Parity for the First Time, and that the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine Has Found Continuing Evidence of War Crimes Committed by Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home MORNING - Human Rights Council Hears that the Special Procedures Have Achieved Gender Parity for the First Time, and that the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine Has Found Continuing Evidence of War Crimes Committed by Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine 25 September 2023 Meeting Summaries Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue on the Situation of Human Rights in Belarus…

Ukraine: Rape and torture by Russian forces continuing, rights experts report

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Ukraine: Rape and torture by Russian forces continuing, rights experts report 25 September 2023 © WFP/Anastasiia Honcharuk The UN says there is evidence that civilians in Ukraine are being targeted by Russia. Russian forces in Ukraine faced new allegations of war crimes on Monday as UN-appointed independent rights experts published the findings of their latest report into Russia’s full…

Palestine: Rights experts call for stronger torture prevention measures

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Palestine: Rights experts call for stronger torture prevention measures 25 September 2023 UN News The Palestinian Flag in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Palestinian authorities must strengthen fundamental legal safeguards against torture and ill-treatment, especially from the first moments of detention, a group of UN human rights experts said on Monday.…

World News in Brief: Ukraine nuclear plant update, Sudan health crisis, reproductive rights

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: Ukraine nuclear plant update, Sudan health crisis, reproductive rights 25 September 2023 © IAEA/Fredrik Dahl IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi visits the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant and its surrounding area with his team during an official visit to Ukraine. “We are not going anywhere” is the message coming from UN nuclear safety watchdog IAEA chief Rafael…

Venezuela continues crackdown on dissenters, UN rights experts warn

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Venezuela continues crackdown on dissenters, UN rights experts warn 25 September 2023 © UNICEF/Velasquez Children walk past street graffiti in Caracas, Venezuela. (file) Attacks on civic and democratic space in Venezuela are increasing through policies aimed at silencing opposition and criticism of the Government, the head of a UN-appointed human rights body said on Monday.…

Only way to end nuclear risk ‘is to eliminate nuclear weapons’: Guterres

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Only way to end nuclear risk ‘is to eliminate nuclear weapons’: Guterres 25 September 2023 © ICAN/Marlena Koenig The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons is marked annually on 26 September. When “geopolitical mistrust and competition” has pushed the nuclear risk to Cold War levels, total elimination of such weapons is the only route to a peaceful future, the UN…

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Opens Seventy-Fourth Session

1 year 7 months ago Breadcrumb Home Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Opens Seventy-Fourth Session 25 September 2023 Meeting Summaries The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today opened its seventy-fourth session, hearing opening remarks from Wan-Hea Lee, Chief, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Section, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Representative of the…