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As spiking uranium prices drive a surge of proposals for new mines, the Navajo Nation joined the Ute Mountain Ute, Havasupai, Northern Arapaho and Oglala Sioux tribes in a commission hearing with federal officials to push back against mining on and near their lands.

WASHINGTON (CMC): Two Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nationals have been named as new commissioners of the Washington-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) that has also launched a new institutional cycle. IACHR said that as of...

As incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro keeps closing in on the former head of State Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva ahead of this years Oct. 2 elections, the United Nations Human Rights Committee Thursday ratified the PT leaders tights had been violated when he was tried and convicted for corruption in another episode of the Lava Jato saga.

SAO PAULO (AP) -- A U.N. human rights panel of experts handed a moral victory to former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday, finding

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled in Geneva that indigenous people are affected by Paraguayan companies spreading pesticides in areas neighbouring homes, schools, roads and rivers thus affecting the water supply to indigenous peoples, causing diarrhoea, vomiting, respiratory problems and headaches, were entitled to reparations.

GENEVA (30 July 2021) — The decision to cancel the licence of a Belarusian lawyer after he spoke to the media about the detention conditions of his client, an opposition presidential candidate, violated the lawyer’s rights to a fair hearing and freedom of expression, the UN Human Rights Committee has found. The Committee issued its findings after considering a complaint filed by Aleh Aheyeu, a defence lawyer who represented Ales Mikhalevich, an opposition candidate in the...

Date Time Share Disqualifying lawyer of former presidential candidate violates rights to fair trial and freedom of expression- UN Human Rights OHCHR The decision to cancel the licence of a Belarusian lawyer after he spoke to the media about the detention conditions of his client, an opposition presidential candidate, violated the lawyer’s rights to a fair hearing and freedom of expression, the UN Human Rights Committee has found. The Committee issued its findings after considering a comp...

The Commission says it had requested Cape Verde to refrain from extraditing Mr Saab to the United States of America while his case is under consideration by its committee or until further notice.

1 March 2021 Committee Elects Photini Pazartzis as New Chairperson, also Elects Bureau The Human Rights Committee this afternoon opened its online one hundred and thirty-first session, hearing from Mahamane Cisse-Gouro, Director, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and representative of the Secretary-General. The Committee elected Photini Pazartzis (Greece) as its new Chairperson. The Committee also adopted its agenda. ...

1 March 2021 Committee Elects Photini Pazartzis as New Chairperson, also Elects Bureau The Human Rights Committee this afternoon opened its online one hundred and thirty-first session, hearing from Mahamane Cisse-Gouro, Director, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and representative of the Secretary-General. The Committee elected Photini Pazartzis (Greece) as its new Chairperson. The Committee also adopted its agenda. ...