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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

January 11, 2021

UN concern at violations of civil and political rights in Viet Nam

An increasing number of independent journalists, bloggers, online commentators and human rights defenders are being arbitrarily detained.
January 10, 2021

Call for 'clear, unambiguous standards' to protect aircraft over conflict zones

The call from a UN expert came on the first-year anniversary of the strike against Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752, which killed all 176 people on board.
January 8, 2021

UN calls for release of 53 arrested under Hong Kong's National Security Law

The arrests indicate that the offence of subversion under the National Security Law is being used to detain individuals for exercising legitimate rights to participate in political and public life, says a spokeswoman for the OHCHR.
January 4, 2021

UN experts gravely concerned by Ugandan election clampdown

UN experts call for an immediate end to judicial intimidation of human rights defenders, journalists, civil society leaders, peaceful protesters, political parties and those who express dissent.
January 2, 2021

Netherlands violated child’s right to acquire a nationality, UN Committee finds

The decision relates to Denny, whose mother was trafficked to the Netherlands when she was 15 and forced into prostitution.
December 19, 2020

UN experts alarmed at sixth Palestinian child killing by Israeli forces in 2020

Civil society organisations have documented the deaths of 155 Palestinian children by Israeli Security Forces using live ammunition or crowd-control weapons since 2013.
December 17, 2020

Continued crackdown on human rights defenders and lawyers in China

Families of human rights lawyers are routinely threatened, summoned for questioning, and subjected to surveillance by the authorities.
December 13, 2020

Water futures market 'invites speculators and challenges basic human rights'

A new water futures contract allows buyers and sellers to barter a fixed price for the delivery of fixed quantity of water at a future date.
December 10, 2020

UN expert calls for immediate release of Assange after 10 years of arbitrary detention

Mr Assange's prolonged solitary confinement is neither necessary nor proportionate and clearly lacks any legal basis, said Nils Melzer.
December 7, 2020

France must revise bill on global security, say UN experts

France’s controversial bill on global security would be incompatible with international human rights law, and should be comprehensively revised, human rights experts have said.