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A Syrian man and an aid organization have accused Russia of violating international law by deliberately bombing a hospital in northern Syria in 2019, in a new complaint filed at the United Nations Human Rights Committee this week. Russia, which intervened militarily in Syria's conflict in 2015 to bolster the forces of its ally President Bashar al-Assad, has been accused by UN investigators of committing war crimes in Syria, but has not faced any international tribunal. Moscow has repeatedly...

Hand in Hand lodged complaint about series of airstrikes on the Kafr Nobol Surgical Hospital in 2019.

The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) is set to visit Mongolia for the second time from 5 to 16 May 2024 to assess the country’s implementation of its recommendations made after the previous visit in 2017.

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Sir Robert devoted his life to disability rights after living in institutions in his younger years, says Kaihautū Tika Hauātanga | Disability Rights Commissioner Prudence Walker.

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Monrovia, Liberia; August 15, 2022: The 54th Session of the National Legislature has an enormous opportunity to represent the interests of Liberian women and advance Liberia’s record of women’s leadership in Africa and globally through the passage of a mandatory gender quota in the New Elections Law that is currently on the agenda of the Senate.

Honduras ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) in 2006; the SPT visited the country first in 2009 and again in 2012.

GENEVA (4 December 2014) – The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) is due to be in the Maldives from 8 to 11 December to assess what progress has been made on its recommendations, made after its first visit in 2007. “We will be exploring what has been done since 2007 and the