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Communications report to session 55 of the Human Rights Council, in the list below, in chronological order, shows communications dating before 01 Jun 2023 to which a reply or an additional reply has been received in the period between 01 Aug 2023 and 31 Jan 2024. Some names of individuals or other information have been rendered anonymous or otherwise unidentifiable. |
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Informations reçues concernant Mme Sihem Bensedrine, ancienne présidente de l’Instance Vérité et Dignité (IVD), qui a été interdite de quitter le pays après avoir été inculpée dans le cadre d'une enquête sur le rapport final de cette instance qu'elle a présidée sur les crimes commis sous la dictature. Le rapport a été publié au Journal Officiel conformément à la loi et fait donc désormais partie du cadre juridique tunisien.Alleged victims: 1 |
08 Dec 2023 |
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Information received concerning the sentencing of three human rights defenders by the Terrorism Circuit of the Emergency State Security Court in a trial that lacked due process after they were arrested arbitrarily in 2018 and subjected to enforced disappearance, ill treatment amounting to torture, and poor detention conditions.Alleged victims: 3 |
19 Jul 2023 02 Aug 2023 |
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Informations reçues concernant les projets de stockage d’eau qui se développent en France depuis les années 90 (« méga-bassines »), l’usage excessif de la force à l’encontre de leurs opposants lors de manifestations, ainsi que la criminalisation des organisations de défense des droits humains et de l’environnement. Les méga-bassines font l’objet de contestations en raison de leur potentiel impact environnemental et social, ainsi que du point de vue du respect des droits à l’alimentation, à l’eau, à un environnement propre et sain, à la liberté de réunion pacifique et d’association. Alleged victims: 1 |
15 Sep 2023 15 Sep 2023 15 Sep 2023 15 Sep 2023 15 Sep 2023 15 Sep 2023 15 Sep 2023 15 Sep 2023 15 Sep 2023 |
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Información recibida en relación con las consecuencias de la Ley Orgánica 10/2022, de 6 de septiembre, de Garantía Integral de la Libertad Sexual, conocida también como la Ley “solo sí es sí” (SSES) y, en particular, la rebaja de las sentencias penales por violencia basada en género. Alleged victims: - |
04 Aug 2023 |
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Information received concerning a wide-scale police operation that was carried out in 21 Turkish provinces on 25 April 2023 to arrest and detain over 120 individuals on suspicion of terrorism and their alleged ties to the Kurdistan Workers Party. Alleged victims: 126 |
14 Aug 2023 |
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Information received concerning the situation of children and women, mostly of refugee, asylum-seeking and minority background, including unaccompanied and separated children, who continue to face a heightened risk of abuse and exploitation including by being subjected to immigration detention, extortion, sale, child forced labour, trafficking, sexual exploitation, child forced marriage and other forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, in the aftermath of recent earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. Alleged victims: - |
10 Aug 2023 |
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Information received concerning the grave and alarming deterioration in the access of women and girls to comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare, including abortion, following the United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and the direct and indirect violations of international human rights law as a result of the decision.Alleged victims: 168000000 |
30 Aug 2023 30 Aug 2023 30 Aug 2023 30 Aug 2023 30 Aug 2023 30 Aug 2023 30 Aug 2023 30 Aug 2023 30 Aug 2023 30 Aug 2023 |
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Information received concerning allegations of systemic acts of violence, threats, harassment, and discrimination against Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul, particularly women spiritual leaders, which appear to be related to the legitimate exercise of their rights to freedom of expression, freedom of religion or belief as well as their cultural rights. Alleged victims: 6 |
10 Jul 2023 21 Jul 2023 29 Aug 2023 |
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Information received concerning the charges of rebellion, the alleged smears and harassment against human rights defenders Mr. Florence Kang, Mr. Nino Joseph Oconer, Ms. Lucia Lourdes Gimenez, Ms. Jennifer Awingan-Taggaoa, Mr. Windel Bolinget, Mr. Stephen Tauli and Ms. Sarah Abellon Alikes, who all advocate for Indigenous peoples, land and environmental rights. Alleged victims: 7 |
18 Sep 2023 |
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Information received concerning the alleged lack of an effective and prompt investigation into the killing of Mr. Uakhele Giban, an indigenous Papuan, on 5 July 2022 in Suru Suru district, Yahukimo regency, allegedly by agents of the Indonesian security forces of the Damai Cartenz Unit, the alleged killings of Arlod Lokbere, Irian Nigiri, Lemaniol Nigiri, and Atis Tini, indegenous Papuans, in Mimika Regency, Nduga, in the Indonesian province of Papua on 22 August 2022, reportedly by members of the Indonesian Army from Brigif 20 and the alleged excessive use of force against an indigenous Papuan minor, on 15 April 2022. These cases appear to occur in the context of ongoing practices of excessive use of force, extrajudicial killings, and torture of indigenous Papuans by Indonesian police, military or joint security forces.Alleged victims: 6 |
09 Aug 2023 |
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information we have received concerning the detention of a young girl and the charges brought against her under Section 112 (lèse-majesté) of the Criminal Code. The lèse-majesté legislation has been the subject of numerous observations and recommendations by international human rights bodies and mechanisms in recent years.Alleged victims: 1 |
09 May 2023 25 Aug 2023 |
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Information received concerning the imminent risk of execution of three persons and long prison convictions of three others, in the context of alleged persecution of members of the Howeitat tribe. Messrs. Shadly Ahmad Mahmoud Abou Taqiqa al-Huwaiti, Ibrahim Salih Ahmad Abou Khalil al-Huwaiti and Atallah Moussa Mohammed al-Huwaiti, have been sentenced to death. Merssrs. Abdelnasser Ahmad Mahmoud Abou Taqiqa al-Huwaiti, Mahmoud Ahmad Mahmoud Abou Taqiqa al-Huwaiti and Abdullah Dakhilallah al-Huwaiti, have been handed severe prison sentences. All are convicted for terrorist acts, which are allegedly baseless, and they are rather being punished for merely voicing their opposition to the forced evictions of the Howeitat tribe, including on social media. Some of them have allegedly been subjected to torture and ill-treatment while in custody, including prolonged solitary confinement, for the purpose of extracting confessions. The six, along with other members of the Howeitat tribe, have been resisting evictions from their homes under the NEOM project, part of the Saudi 2030 Vision. NEOM is a project of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which owns 100% of a closed joint-stock company named Neom. A number of international companies, have been allegedly involved in different stages of the development of the Neom Project. The NEOM project is being implemented allegedly without genuine consultation, free prior and informed consent, and access to effective remedies of the Howeitat tribe, whose members have been threatened with evictions from Al Khuraiba, Sharma and Gayal villages. Alleged victims: 6 |
08 Aug 2023 |
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Information received concerning the imminent risk of execution of three persons and long prison convictions of three others, in the context of alleged persecution of members of the Howeitat tribe. Messrs. Shadly Ahmad Mahmoud Abou Taqiqa al-Huwaiti, Ibrahim Salih Ahmad Abou Khalil al-Huwaiti and Atallah Moussa Mohammed al-Huwaiti, have been sentenced to death. Merssrs. Abdelnasser Ahmad Mahmoud Abou Taqiqa al-Huwaiti, Mahmoud Ahmad Mahmoud Abou Taqiqa al-Huwaiti and Abdullah Dakhilallah al-Huwaiti, have been handed severe prison sentences. All are convicted for terrorist acts, which are allegedly baseless, and they are rather being punished for merely voicing their opposition to the forced evictions of the Howeitat tribe, including on social media. Some of them have allegedly been subjected to torture and ill-treatment while in custody, including prolonged solitary confinement, for the purpose of extracting confessions. The six, along with other members of the Howeitat tribe, have been resisting evictions from their homes under the NEOM project, part of the Saudi 2030 Vision. The NEOM project is being implemented allegedly without genuine consultation, free prior and informed consent, and access to effective remedies of the Howeitat tribe, whose members have been threatened with evictions from Al Khuraiba, Sharma and Gayal villages. NEOM is a project of the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which owns 100% of a closed joint-stock company named Neom. A number of international companies, have been allegedly involved in different stages of the development of the Neom Project.Alleged victims: 6 |
02 Jan 2024 |
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Information received concerning the new amendment bill to the Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act.Alleged victims: - |
11 Oct 2023 |
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Informations reçues concernant des ingérences dans le processus judiciaire, ce qui causent des délais indus et préjudiciables, et des préoccupations que la justice ne soit être établie dans l’affaire d’explosion qui est lieu le 4 d’août 2020 (« l’explosion du port de Beyrouth »). Alleged victims: 300001 |
18 Aug 2023 |
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Information received concerning the Lugano Convention (as well as the Brussels I Regulation Recast under the European Union) overcomes the forum non conveniens doctrine, as that doctrine limits the possibility of victims bringing a legal action in relation to corporate activities outside the state in which they are domiciled. Alleged victims: 463000000 |
01 Nov 2023 |
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Information received concerning the deliberate poisoning of more than 1200 schoolgirls since November 2022.Alleged victims: 1200 |
05 Sep 2023 |
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Informations reçues concernant des allégations de violations des droits de l'homme concernant le projet de développement urbain et touristique de Mandalika. Les procédures spéciales ont déjà exprimé leurs préoccupations concernant la mise en œuvre de ce projet dans le document OTH 177/2021. Nous saisissons cette occasion pour vous remercier de vos réponses à cette communication. Néanmoins, nous restons extrêmement préoccupés par la situation dans la région de Mandalika.Alleged victims: 1 |
04 Dec 2023 |
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Information received concerning the Public Order Bill of the United Kingdom (hereafter, the “Bill”) which could result in undue and grave restrictions on the exercise of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, as well as of expression. This communication follows a previous communication sent to your Excellency’s Government on 25 May 2021 (GBR 7/2021), in which other concerns relating to the freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, as well as of expression were raised in relation to the Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Bill that has since become law in April 2022.Alleged victims: 1 |
09 Dec 2023 |
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information received the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill introduced in Parliament on 17th May 2022 which appears to be inconsistent with the United Kingdom’s obligations to investigate the serious human rights violations committed during the “Northern Ireland Troubles”, and to provide access to truth and remedy for victims. Alleged victims: - |
22 Aug 2023 |
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Information received concerning a registration and verification exercise in Al-Hol and Roj camps located in North-East Syria where your nationals, primarily women and children, are currently deprived of their liberty. In these makeshift locked camps made up of unstable tent-like structures which collapse in strong winds or flood with rain or sewage, hygiene is almost non-existent: limited drinking water is often contaminated, latrines are overflowing, mounds of garbage litter the grounds, and illnesses including viral infections are rampant. Food, water, health care and essential non-food supplies are provided by under-resourced humanitarian groups and organisations. According to the Kurdish Red Crescent, at least 517 people, 371 of them children, died in 2019, many from preventable diseases, in Al-Hol camp alone. In August 2020, eight children under the age of five died in that camp in less than a week, with four caused by malnutrition-related complications and the others were due to dehydration from diarrhoea, heart failure, internal bleeding and hypoglycaemia, according to UNICEF. Covid-19 has increased these difficulties, with a reduction in the number of workers operating in the camp. Alleged victims: 700 |
05 Oct 2023 |