CARACAS (12 February 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, Alena Douhan, today urged the United States, European Union and other States to drop unilateral sanctions imposed against Venezuela. At .
Saturday, 6 February 2021, 1:29 pm
Following the disappearance in Paraguay of a
teenage girl and killing of two 11-year-olds, the UN human
rights chief has expressed her deep concern, also noting on
Friday other disturbing elements of abuse against women and
girls, surrounding the cases.
According to
Marta Hurtado, spokesperson for the High Commissioner for
Human Rights (OHCHR),
14-year-old Paraguayan citizen Carmen Elizabeth Oviedo
Villalba, has reportedly been missing
since early December.
On 2 September, she had
apparently witnessed a Paraguayan Joint Task Force operation
against members of the armed guerrilla group known as the
Paraguayan People’s Army (Ejército del Pueblo
Illegally-armed groups and criminal organizations in Colombia are determined to “drive out State institutions and stamp out the voice of social leaders” through violence and intimidation, the head of the UN mission in the country told the Security .
Geneva, 14 January 2021 “We are deeply concerned by continuous and increasing attacks in Venezuela against civil society organizations, human rights defenders and journalists. In the latest incident, on 12 January in Zulia state, military counter-intelligence .
GENEVA (12 January 2021) – Police in Peru used unnecessary and excessive force when faced with mass protests between 9 and 15 November 2020, according to a UN Human Rights Office report published on 12 January that stresses the failure of security .