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The Algerian Government must pay urgent attention to the pattern of legal restrictions and prosecutions of individuals and associations in the North African country, a UN-appointed independent expert said on Tuesday. more
Protect the defenders of the planet, UN rights chief urges

New York: The world must be made a safer place for people working to protect the planet, who sometimes pay with their own lives for their activism, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Miche ...

Protect human rights defenders in Afghanistan, says UN rights expert

New Delhi: Afghanistan faces a “cultural disaster”, following the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, a UN Special Rapporteur said on Tuesday, in a statement urging countries to ...

Connecticut prison warning: Prolonged solitary confinement may ‘amount to torture’, UN expert warns

New York : The “excessive use” of solitary confinement by the prison service in the US state of Connecticut, prompted an independent UN human rights expert to voice alarm on F ...

Situation in central Mali ‘deteriorating’ as violence, impunity rise, UN rights expert warns

New York : The growing violence has contributed to a deteriorating security situation in central Mali, with impunity being one of the aggravating factors, an independent UN human rights e ...

New UN rights chief pledges to push back on ‘centuries of prejudice and discrimination’

New York,  The UN’s newly appointed High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, intends to push back “centuries of prejudice and discrimination” against ...

US migrant children policy reversal, still ‘fails’ thousands of detained youngsters: UN rights experts

New York: The United States government decision to end its border policy of forcibly separating migrant children from their parents, does not help thousands of youngsters already in deten ...

Children ‘as young as one’ involved in US separation of migrant families – UN rights office

New York: The current policy in the United States of separating “extremely young children” from their asylum-seeker or migrant parents along the country’s southern borde ...