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South Africa: Failure to tackle domestic violence a violation of women’s rights – UN experts GENEVA (17 May 2021) South Africa’s low levels of prosecution and conviction in domestic violence cases and the frequent failures by the police to serve and enforce protection orders, exposed survivors to repeated abuses and resulted in the violation of women’s fundamental rights, the UN women’s rights committee has found. In a report published today, the Committee on the Eliminatio...

OHCHR The Committee on the Rights of the Child today opened its online eighty-seventh session, electing a new Chairperson and Bureau, and adopting its agenda and programme of work for the session, during which it will review the reports of Luxembourg and Tunisia. The Committee elected its new Chair and Bureau. Mikiko Otani (Japan) was elected as Chair of the Committee. The Vice-Chairs are Velina Todorova (Bulgaria), Philip Jaffe (Switzerland), Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi (Morocco) and Faith Marshall-Ha...

Foreword The following report has been prepared in my capacity as a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) under the Crimes of Torture Act 1989 (COTA). The COTA gives effect to the United Nations Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (OPCAT), ratified by Aotearoa New Zealand in 2007. My function under the COTA is to examine, and make any recommendations that I consider appropriate to improve, the treatment and condition...

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Liberia: Coalition of Child Rights Advocates Demands End to FGM, all forms of Harmful Practices against Children Liberia: Coalition of Child Rights Advocates Demands End to FGM, all forms of Harmful Practices against Children Share In addition, the rights groups called for the Intensification of efforts to prevent and respond to SGBV, as well as to criminalize FGM in all circumstances and ultimately eradicate the practice Monrovia – Leading Child Rights advocacy groups including the Liberia C...

Remarks by Ms. Virginia Gamba: Ending the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers by 2025 Format PLEASE CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Remarks by Ms. Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Ending the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers by 2025 Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Alliance 8.7 and War Child for organizing today’s event. My Office actively supports, as a Member, the important work of Alliance 8.7, aimed at br...

  Uzbekistan has been carrying out reforms on the principle of “ human interests above all else” and ensuring proper protection of human rights. Thus, the country has identified human rights protection as one of the priority areas. The analysis demonstrates that work in this area has a systemic character. The country has made a breakthrough in ensuring socio-economic, civil, and political rights. First of all, the government carried out outstanding work to eradicate forced and child labor...

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmès attended the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday, representing Belgium at the UN’s assessment of the human rights situation in its member states.

OSMAN: The Commission calls upon Government to ensure that all those persons who were recently sentenced to death and are on death row, should have their sentences commuted to life The Malawi Human Rights Commission(MHRC) has commended the Chief Justice Andrew Nyirenda’s led Supreme Court of Malawi for abolishing death sentence in country as right step towards restoring dignity to human rights especially right to life. On 28th of April, 2021 the Supreme Court ruled that death sentence is unco...

The UKs International Human Rights Ambassador delivered the statement on Belgium at the 38th Session of Universal Periodic Review (UPR), sharing recommendations to improve their human rights record.