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386 communications found
Date, Country,
Type and
ref. no. of
communication
Mandates Summary Replies received
    20 Feb 2024
    South Africa
    AL
  • food
Information received concerning the criminalisation of and use of violence directed at fisherfolks in the Dwesa-Cwebe Wildlife Reserve & Marine Sanctuary in the Eastern Cape, South Africa (Dwesa-Cwebe).
Alleged victims: 6
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    16 Feb 2024
    United States of America
    JAL
  • unilateral coercive measures
  • food
comment on a bill of the United States` Congress introduced “[t]o prohibit any official action to recognize or normalize relations with any Government of Syria that is led by Bashar al-Assad”, which, if accepted, would have a negative impact on the human rights of the Syrian population.
Alleged victims: -
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    06 Feb 2024
    United States of America
    JAL
  • unilateral coercive measures
  • food
  • foreign debt
  • international order
  • international solidarity
Information received about the negative impact on human rights of sanctions imposed by the United States of America as the result of its designation of certain countries as state sponsors of terrorism (SST) under domestic legal authority granted initially by the Arms Export Control Act, section 40; the Foreign Assistance Act, section 620A, and subsequently continued by National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, section 1754(c); as well as by Paragraph 1605A of USC Title 28, Part IV, Chapter 97; and other U.S. laws that trigger specific sanctions when a country is listed as an SST. The sanctions raise serious rule-of-law and human rights concerns.
Alleged victims: -
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    25 Jan 2024
    United States of America
    JAL
  • food
  • development
  • poverty
  • unilateral coercive measures
Information received concerning the damaging impact of the unilateral economic coercive measures imposed on Cuba for the past 62 years by the USA, on Cuba’s ability to guarantee the right to food and to an adequate standard of living for its citizens and residents.
Alleged victims: 11183000
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17 Apr 2024
    25 Jan 2024
    Cuba
    JAL
  • food
  • poverty
Información recibida sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en Cuba, en particular sobre el estado de inseguridad alimentaria en el país, que tiene un impacto negativo especialmente sobre los grupos vulnerables, impidiendo la realización del derecho a una alimentación adecuada, a un nivel de vida adecuado, a la educación y a la salud. La denunciada situación de inseguridad alimentaria en el país, persistente y de larga data, está afectando fuertemente a las familias de personas afrocubanas, ancianas, personas con enfermedades crónicas, personas que viven en la pobreza y niños, niñas y adolescentes.
Alleged victims: 11183000
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    08 Jan 2024
    Xinyi Glass Holdings Limited
    JAL
  • housing
  • arbitrary Detention
  • business
  • development
  • food
  • Indigenous Peoples
Information received concerning the allegation of threats of eviction of Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral lands, as well as other residents of the affected villages, and subsequent loss of livelihoods for the implementation of an industrial development project in Rempang Island, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia, without the free, prior and informed consent of the Indigenous Peoples, or the adequate consultation of the other affected residents. The project is a joint venture between the government agency, Badan Pengusahaan Kawasan Perdagangan Bebas dan Pelabuhan Bebas Batam (BP Batam) and PT Makmur Elok Graha (MEG), which have partnered with Xinyi International Investment Limited, a subsidiary of Xinyi Glass Holdings Limited, a company domiciled in Hong Kong, China. Additionally, there have been allegations of excessive use of force and intimidation against those opposing the planned evictions.
Alleged victims: 7502
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01 Feb 2024 (Ack.)
19 Mar 2024
    08 Jan 2024
    PT Makmur Elok Graha (MEG)
    JAL
  • housing
  • arbitrary Detention
  • business
  • development
  • food
  • Indigenous Peoples
Information received concerning the allegation of threats of eviction of Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral lands, as well as other residents of the affected villages, and subsequent loss of livelihoods for the implementation of an industrial development project in Rempang Island, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia, without the free, prior and informed consent of the Indigenous Peoples, or the adequate consultation of the other affected residents. The project is a joint venture between the government agency, Badan Pengusahaan Kawasan Perdagangan Bebas dan Pelabuhan Bebas Batam (BP Batam) and PT Makmur Elok Graha (MEG), which have partnered with Xinyi International Investment Limited, a subsidiary of Xinyi Glass Holdings Limited, a company domiciled in Hong Kong, China. Additionally, there have been allegations of excessive use of force and intimidation against those opposing the planned evictions.
Alleged victims: 7502
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    08 Jan 2024
    Indonesia
    JAL
  • housing
  • arbitrary Detention
  • business
  • development
  • food
  • Indigenous Peoples
Information received concerning the allegation of threats of eviction of Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral lands, as well as other residents of the affected villages, and subsequent loss of livelihoods for the implementation of an industrial development project in Rempang Island, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia, without the free, prior and informed consent of the Indigenous Peoples, or the adequate consultation of the other affected residents. The project is a joint venture between the government agency, Badan Pengusahaan Kawasan Perdagangan Bebas dan Pelabuhan Bebas Batam (BP Batam) and PT Makmur Elok Graha (MEG), which has partnered with Xinyi International Investment Limited, a subsidiary of Xinyi Glass Holdings Limited, a company domiciled in Hong Kong, China. Additionally, there have been allegations of excessive use of force and intimidation against those opposing the planned evictions.
Alleged victims: 7502
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30 Jan 2024 (Ack.)
07 Mar 2024
    08 Jan 2024
    China
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • business
  • development
  • food
  • housing
  • Indigenous Peoples
Information received concerning the allegation of threats of eviction of Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral lands, as well as other residents of the affected villages, and subsequent loss of livelihoods for the implementation of an industrial development project in Rempang Island, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia, without the free, prior and informed consent of the Indigenous Peoples, or the adequate consultation of the other affected residents. The project is a joint venture between the government agency, Badan Pengusahaan Kawasan Perdagangan Bebas dan Pelabuhan Bebas Batam (BP Batam) and PT Makmur Elok Graha (MEG), which have partnered with Xinyi International Investment Limited, a subsidiary of Xinyi Glass Holdings Limited, a company domiciled in Hong Kong, China. Additionally, there have been allegations of excessive use of force and intimidation against those opposing the planned evictions.
Alleged victims: 7502
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    08 Jan 2024
    Badan Pengusahaan Kawasan Perdagangan Bebas dan Pelabuhan Bebas Batam (BP Batam)
    JAL
  • housing
  • arbitrary Detention
  • business
  • development
  • food
  • Indigenous Peoples
Information received concerning the allegation of threats of eviction of Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral lands, as well as other residents of the affected villages, and subsequent loss of livelihoods for the implementation of an industrial development project in Rempang Island, Riau Islands Province, Indonesia, without the free, prior and informed consent of the Indigenous Peoples, or the adequate consultation of the other affected residents. The project is a joint venture between the government agency, Badan Pengusahaan Kawasan Perdagangan Bebas dan Pelabuhan Bebas Batam (BP Batam) and PT Makmur Elok Graha (MEG), which have partnered with Xinyi International Investment Limited, a subsidiary of Xinyi Glass Holdings Limited, a company domiciled in Hong Kong, China. Additionally, there have been allegations of excessive use of force and intimidation against those opposing the planned evictions.
Alleged victims: 7502
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    22 Dec 2023
    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD
    JOL
  • foreign debt
  • education
  • food
  • health
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • racism
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the OECD and its member states’ failure to reform the global taxation system in line with their international human rights obligation.
Alleged victims: -
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    08 Dec 2023
    Empresa de Generación Eléctrica Punta Catalina, S. A.
    JAL
  • food
  • business
  • environment
  • health
  • poverty
  • toxics and human rights
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida relativa a los impactos ambientales y de derechos humanos derivados del funcionamiento de la Central Termoeléctrica Punta Catalina. En especial, deseamos llamar su atención sobre las alegaciones de violaciones de los derechos al más alto nivel posible de salud, el acceso a agua potable y alimentación adecuada y el disfrute de un medio ambiente seguro, limpio, saludable y sostenible en contra de la población de la provincia de Peravia, Republica Dominicana, incluyendo a niños, niñas y adolescentes y otros grupos susceptibles, como mujeres embarazadas, madres lactantes y nuevas madres, personas mayores, que son especialmente vulnerables a las sustancias tóxicas.
Alleged victims: 220001
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    08 Dec 2023
    Dominican Republic
    JAL
  • food
  • business
  • environment
  • health
  • poverty
  • toxics and human rights
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida relativa a los impactos ambientales y de derechos humanos derivados del funcionamiento de la Central Termoeléctrica Punta Catalina. En especial, deseamos llamar su atención sobre las alegaciones de violaciones de los derechos al más alto nivel posible de salud, el acceso a agua potable y alimentación adecuada y el disfrute de un medio ambiente seguro, limpio, saludable y sostenible en contra de la población de la provincia de Peravia, Republica Dominicana, incluyendo a niños, niñas y adolescentes y otros grupos susceptibles a los impactos derivados del funcionamiento de la Central Termoeléctrica Punta Catalina, como mujeres embarazadas, madres lactantes y nuevas madres, personas mayores, que son especialmente vulnerables a las sustancias tóxicas.
Alleged victims: 220001
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23 Feb 2024
    05 Dec 2023
    Belarus
    JUA
  • Belarus
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • older persons
  • terrorism
  • women and girls
Information received concerning prosecution under terrorism charges of Ms. Iryna Melkher and her alleged ill-treatment in the women’s correctional colony No. 4 in Homyel.
Alleged victims: 1
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    04 Dec 2023
    Permanent Delegation of the European Union
    AL
  • food
Information concerning the European Union (EU)-Indonesia negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) that requires Indonesia to comply with the 1991 Act of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV 1991), and the implications which the ongoing process may have on Indonesia’s full capacity to ensure the right to food.
Alleged victims: -
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    04 Dec 2023
    Indonesia
    AL
  • food
Information concerning the European Union (EU)-Indonesia negotiations on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) that requires Indonesia to comply with the 1991 Act of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV 1991), and the implications which the ongoing process may have on Indonesia’s full capacity to ensure the right to food.
Alleged victims: -
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06 Feb 2024
    09 Oct 2023
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • health
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
information received concerning two British mothers and their minor children, who are subjected to prolonged and indefinite arbitrary detention, in Roj camp, in the Northeast of the Syrian Arab Republic. In particular, we have serious concerns regarding the deteriorated health conditions of the members of these two British families, who are held in inhumane conditions with irregular and inadequate medical treatment, and the increased risk of separation from their mother of two boys, who have reached the ages of 14 and 11 years old, which is subjecting them to extreme psychological pain and suffering and, if separated, to further psychological trauma, arbitrary detention and disappearance.
Alleged victims: 7
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    25 Sep 2023
    Wanbao Mining Limited
    JAL
  • Myanmar
  • business
  • food
  • internally displaced persons
Information received concerning the impacts of Wanbao’s continued operation of the Letpadaung Copper Mine, including the forced eviction and displacement of civilians, collaboration with Myanmar military forces, financial support for the Myanmar military through the mine’s joint shareholder structure and business revenues, and environmental damage.
Alleged victims: 1
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    25 Sep 2023
    United States of America
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations and abuses against residents along the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
Alleged victims: -
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    25 Sep 2023
    The Chemours Company
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations and abuses against residents along the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
Alleged victims: -
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21 Nov 2023
    25 Sep 2023
    Norinco
    JAL
  • Myanmar
  • business
  • food
  • internally displaced persons
Information received concerning the impacts of Wanbao’s continued operation of the Letpadaung Copper Mine, including the forced eviction and displacement of civilians, collaboration with Myanmar military forces, financial support for the Myanmar military through the mine’s joint shareholder structure and business revenues, and environmental damage.
Alleged victims: 1
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    25 Sep 2023
    Netherlands
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations and abuses against residents along the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
Alleged victims: -
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22 Nov 2023
    25 Sep 2023
    DuPont de Numerous, INC.
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations and abuses against residents along the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
Alleged victims: -
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27 Nov 2023
    25 Sep 2023
    Corteva Agriscience
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations and abuses against residents along the lower Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
Alleged victims: -
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16 Nov 2023
    25 Sep 2023
    China
    JAL
  • Myanmar
  • business
  • food
  • internally displaced persons
Information received concerning the impacts of Wanbao Mining Limited (Wanbao), continued operation of the Letpadaung Copper Mine, including the forced eviction and displacement of civilians, collaboration with Myanmar military forces, financial support for the Myanmar military through the mine’s joint shareholder structure and business revenues, and environmental damage. Wanbao Mining Limited is a subsidiary of an arm of China’s state-owned defence company, China North Industries Group Corporation Limited (NORINCO).
Alleged victims: 1
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    29 Aug 2023
    India
    JAL
  • violence against women and girls
  • executions
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • housing
  • human rights defenders
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • internally displaced persons
  • minority issues
  • older persons
  • poverty
  • racism
  • religion or belief
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning sexual and gender-based violence against Meitei and Kuki women in the context of the violence that has been taking place in Manipur since May 2023.
Alleged victims: -
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25 Oct 2023
    31 Jul 2023
    South Africa
    JAL
  • business
  • food
  • human rights defenders
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the intended realization of a large-scale mining project (La Colosa) in Cajamarca (Tolima, Colombia), a municipality with a long-standing agricultural tradition and surrounded by a crucial ecosystem in the region. La Colosa is a project of AngloGold Ashanti Colombia – a branch of the global mining company AngloGold Ashanti with headquarters in South Africa. The South African government is one of the largest single investors in this project through its Public Investors Corporation.
Alleged victims: 20000
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    31 Jul 2023
    Colombia
    JAL
  • business
  • food
  • human rights defenders
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida sobre la pretendida realización de un proyecto minero a gran escala (La Colosa) en Cajamarca (Tolima, Colombia), municipio de larga tradición agrícola y rodeado de un ecosistema crucial en la región. La realización de este megaproyecto no sólo contravendría la prohibición de actividades mineras en ecosistemas de páramo consagrada en la Ley de Páramos (1930/2018), sino que tendría graves repercusiones para el sustento y la soberanía alimentaria de las poblaciones locales y vecinas. La realización de actividades extractivas en Cajamarca supone una amenaza para la realización de derechos humanos fundamentales como el derecho a la alimentación, al agua y a un medio ambiente sano. Además, desconocería el derecho de las comunidades campesinas a una consulta significativa, afectaría gravemente a sus medios de vida y despreciaría su identidad cultural como campesinos.
Alleged victims: 20000
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29 Sep 2023
06 Dec 2023
19 Dec 2023
    31 Jul 2023
    AngloGold Ashanti Colombia S.A.S.
    JAL
  • business
  • food
  • human rights defenders
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida sobre la pretendida realización de un proyecto minero a gran escala (La Colosa) en Cajamarca (Tolima, Colombia), municipio de larga tradición agrícola y rodeado de un ecosistema crucial en la región. La realización de este megaproyecto no sólo contravendría la prohibición de actividades mineras en ecosistemas de páramo consagrada en la Ley de Páramos (1930/2018), sino que tendría graves repercusiones para el sustento y la soberanía alimentaria de las poblaciones locales y vecinas. La realización de actividades extractivas en Cajamarca supone una amenaza para la realización de derechos humanos fundamentales como el derecho a la alimentación, al agua y a un medio ambiente sano. Además, desconocería el derecho de las comunidades campesinas a una consulta significativa, afectaría gravemente a sus medios de vida y despreciaría su identidad cultural como campesinos.
Alleged victims: 20000
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29 Sep 2023
    31 Jul 2023
    AngloGold Ashanti
    JAL
  • business
  • food
  • human rights defenders
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the intended realization of a large-scale mining project (La Colosa) in Cajamarca (Tolima, Colombia), a municipality with a long-standing agricultural tradition and surrounded by a crucial ecosystem in the region. La Colosa is a project of AngloGold Ashanti Colombia – a branch of the global mining company AngloGold Ashanti with headquarters in South Africa. The South African Government is one of the largest single investors in this project through its Public Investors Corporation.
Alleged victims: 20000
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    03 Jul 2023
    Greece
    JUA
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
Information received concerning the halt of food provision to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in the Mavrovouni Closed Controlled Access Centre (C.C.A.C.) on the island of Lesvos in Greece and the detrimental effects it has on the human rights of the individuals residing in this reception facility. The reported instances of deliberate food insecurity imposed upon individuals who are not part of the formal asylum process (including recognized refugees and individuals whose protection claims have been rejected) in Lesvos, constitute clear violations of their human rights to sufficient access to food, healthcare, and clean water.
Alleged victims: 500
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    09 Jun 2023
    Colombia
    OL
  • food
Siguiendo de cerca el proceso en curso de las iniciativas legislativas en el Parlamento colombiano relacionadas con la consolidación del derecho a la alimentación, en particular,
Alleged victims: -
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16 Nov 2023
    07 Jun 2023
    India
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
Information received concerning violations against two members of the human rights organisation Mahila Sarvangeen Utkarsh Mandal (MASUM). This is specifically in reference to the alleged attack on, and torture and ill-treatment of, the human rights defender and community activist Mr. Pranab Roy, as well as the harassment of human rights defender, Mr. Arkadeep Goswami.
Alleged victims: 2
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    18 May 2023
    France
    JAL
  • food
  • climate change
  • environment
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • water and sanitation
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
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15 Sep 2023
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    12 May 2023
    South Africa
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disability
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Information received regarding five South African nationals arbitrarily detained in the al-Roj camp in North-Est Syria. We express deep that one of the female detainees suffers from severe and deteriorating chronic health problems and urgently needs access to medical care that is unavailable in the camp. Furthermore, we are deeply concerned that the 14-year-old boy is at serious risk of being forcibly separated from his family and transferred to another detention centre, where he is at risk of disappearing and being held in incommunicado detention in life-threatening conditions.
Alleged victims: 5
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    03 May 2023
    Bangladesh
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
Information received concerning the arrest, detention and prosecution of journalist Shamsuzzaman Shams Zaman. We are also writing about an investigation opened into editor Matiur Rahman. Mr Shamsuzzaman Shams and Mr Matiur Rahman are respectively journalist and editor for Prothom Alo newspaper, the country’s largest daily news.
Alleged victims: 2
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    03 Apr 2023
    United States of America
    JOL
  • unilateral coercive measures
  • development
  • food
  • international order
  • international solidarity
Information concerning the comment on the text of the General Licence No. 23 (hereafter GL23), issued by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury, and which aims at easing the Syrian Sanctions Regulations 31 CFR part 542 (SySR) for a period of 6 months for the purpose of facilitating the relief efforts following the catastrophic earthquakes of 6 February 2023.
Alleged victims: -
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    03 Apr 2023
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JOL
  • unilateral coercive measures
  • development
  • food
  • international order
  • international solidarity
Information concerning the comment on the text of your Excellency’s Government’s General Licence: Humanitarian Activity INT/2023/2711256 issued on 15 February 2023 under Regulation 61 of The Syria (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (“The Syria Regulations”) pertaining to the humanitarian activity in relations to the earthquake in Syria and Turkey. This General Licence aims at easing for a period of 6 months the sanctions regime against Syria for the purpose of facilitating the relief efforts following the catastrophic earthquakes of 6 February 2023.
Alleged victims: -
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    03 Apr 2023
    Permanent Delegation of the European Union
    JOL
  • unilateral coercive measures
  • development
  • food
  • international order
  • international solidarity
Information received concerning the following comment on the text of the European Union’s Council Regulation 2023/407 and European Union’s Council Decision 2023/408 of 23 February 2023, amending article 16a of the EU Regulation 36/2012 and article 28a of the EU Council Decision 2013/255 respectively. This new EU regulation and decision were adopted in response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria and aims at easing for a period of 6 months of the EU Restrictive Measures against Syria for the purpose of facilitating the relief efforts following the catastrophic earthquakes of 6 February 2023.
Alleged victims: -
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    10 Mar 2023
    Sierra Leone
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of over 50 protesters, predominately women, by the authorities on 4 July 2022 for protesting against increased living costs, including due to fuel price increases. We are also concerned by the reported physical attacks against the individuals detained, which may amount to torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Alleged victims: 50
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    07 Mar 2023
    Malawi
    JAL
  • food
  • health
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning food and water shortages in Malawian prisons and their harmful impact on the human rights of prisoners to adequate food, health and water.
Alleged victims: 1
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    07 Feb 2023
    Austria
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the arbitrary detention and inadequate detention conditions, including restricted access to food, water and medical care, of Ms. Maria Golser, an Austrian citizen, and her two young children, currently detained in Al Roj camp in the North-east region of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Alleged victims: 3
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05 Apr 2023
    02 Feb 2023
    Russian Federation
    JUA
  • food
  • disability
  • education
  • health
  • older persons
Information received concerning the ongoing blockade of the Lachin corridor and its deleterious impact on the exercise by the population living in Nagorno-Karabakh of the rights to adequate food, health and education.
Alleged victims: 120000
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    02 Feb 2023
    Azerbaijan
    JUA
  • food
  • disability
  • education
  • health
  • older persons
Information received concerning the ongoing blockade of the Lachin corridor and its deleterious impact on the exercise by the population living in Nagorno-Karabakh of the rights to adequate food, health and education.
Alleged victims: 120000
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21 Feb 2023
    24 Jan 2023
    Ethiopia
    JAL
  • minority issues
  • food
Information received concerning deprivation of food and other essential needs, large-scale killings and other serious attacks specifically targeting civilian members of the Tigrayan minority group.
Alleged victims: -
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24 Mar 2023
    16 Jan 2023
    Sri Lanka
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • food
  • foreign debt
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • international order
  • terrorism
  • truth
  • justice
  • reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
Information received concerning the continuing use of excessive force against protesters participating in ongoing demonstrations in August and September 2022. The demonstrations are in response to the previous use of excessive force by security forces against protesters, as well as the continuing economic and financial issues arising from fiscal mismanagement of the debt crisis in Sri Lanka
Alleged victims: 3
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    29 Dec 2022
    Twitter Inc.
    JAL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • climate change
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • education
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • mercenaries
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • terrorism
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received regarding harmful impact of hate speech, incitement to hatred and racism targeting people of African descent and spreading on social media such as Twitter. It is especially alarming given the inadequacy of the responses and solutions put in place to counter them.
Alleged victims: -
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    29 Dec 2022
    Google
    JAL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • climate change
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • education
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • mercenaries
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • terrorism
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the harmful impact of hate speech, incitement to hatred and racism targeting people of African descent and spreading on social media. It is especially alarming given the inadequacy of the responses and solutions put in place to counter them.
Alleged victims: -
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    29 Dec 2022
    Facebook
    JAL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • climate change
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • education
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • mercenaries
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • terrorism
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received regarding harmful impact of hate speech, incitement to hatred and racism targeting people of African descent and spreading on social media such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. It is especially alarming given the inadequacy of the responses and solutions put in place to counter them.
Alleged victims: -
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    29 Dec 2022
    Apple
    JAL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • climate change
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • education
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • mercenaries
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • terrorism
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the harmful impact of hate speech, including misogynistic hate speech, incitement to hatred and racism targeting people of African descent and spreading on social media, especially alarming given the inadequacy of the responses and solutions put in place to counter them.
Alleged victims: -
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13 Mar 2023
    27 Dec 2022
    Trinidad and Tobago
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • slavery
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Information received in respect of two nationals of Trinidad and Tobago currently held in the Houri Rehabilitation Centre, in the North-East region of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Alleged victims: 2
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24 Feb 2023
    27 Dec 2022
    Bangladesh
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • torture
Information received regarding attacks and the use of excessive and lethal force, including by law enforcement, against protestors from the Bangladesh National Party (BNP), who have held demonstrations between July and September 2022 against price rises and attacks on their protests by authorities and opposition parties. The use of excessive and lethal force has caused at least four deaths and a number of injuries.
Alleged victims: 3
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    20 Dec 2022
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JUA
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • food
  • health
Information received concerning the arrest,detention and sentencing of Mr. Olivier Vandecastelle, a 41-year-old Belgium humanitarian worker and his subsequent ill-treatment and current critical health condition. Mr. Vandecasteele has worked since 2008 as humanitarian worker for the Non Governmental Organisation Médecins du Monde in different countries and from 2020 to 2021 as the Country Director of Afghan Displacement Relief International in Iran.
Alleged victims: 1
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14 Apr 2023
    01 Dec 2022
    Thailand
    JAL
  • housing
  • climate change
  • environment
  • food
  • human rights defenders
  • minority issues
  • poverty
  • racism
Information received concerning the threat of forced evictions of 14 Isan minority members (9 women, 5 men), who are also land-right defenders, from their lands and homes in the Sab Wai village, situated in the Sai Thong National Park, under forest conservation policies and legislation. The eviction orders have been issued in the context of the Government’s climate change mitigation action without the provision of alternative accommodation and productive land, nor adequate compensation. Allegedly, the national strategy to address the adverse effects of climate change pursues “false solutions” that are resulting in practice in the criminalization and impoverishment of poor small-scale farmers who depend on forests for their livelihoods, while the need to reform the energy sector is neglected.
Alleged victims: 1
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07 Dec 2022 (Ack.)
    23 Nov 2022
    Malawi
    JUA
  • food
  • health
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the food shortages in Malawian prisons.
Alleged victims: -
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23 Nov 2022 (Ack.)
    15 Nov 2022
    Colombia
    JAL
  • housing
  • African Descent
  • climate change
  • cultural rights
  • food
  • health
  • internally displaced persons
Información recibida en relación con la crisis humanitaria y ambiental que padece el pueblo Raizal de las islas de Vieja Providencia y Santa Catalina, pertenecientes al Archipiélago de San Andrés, Providencia y Santa Catalina, tras el paso de los huracanes Eta e Iota en noviembre de 2020. Casi dos años después del paso y daños causados por los huracanes, la población de la isla de 5000 personas, de la cual 4500 indígenas Raizales, sigue necesitando urgentemente ayuda para el restablecimiento de todas sus necesidades básicas afectadas, como: alojamiento, atención sanitaria, agua, saneamiento y alimentos. Los esfuerzos de reconstrucción del Gobierno, se están llevando a cabo sin tomar en cuenta las aspiraciones y las recomendaciones del pueblo raizal y de sus autoridades, ignorando su forma de vida y sus costumbres, así como el clima de las islas. Debido a la insuficiente adecuación de las nuevas viviendas a las condiciones climáticas de las islas, la situación queda crítica y conlleva el riesgo que las personas interesadas se desplacen de nuevo y se queden sin hogar cuando golpee el próximo huracán. Además, la prioridad acordada a las necesidades militares y de desarrollo económico sobre la satisfacción de las necesidades inmediatas de la población en términos de vivienda, alimentos, agua potable y saneamiento, y un medio ambiente limpio, significa una presión importante sobre el espacio vital de los Raizales que afecta negativamente su autodeterminación, sus derechos culturales y su derecho al desarrollo, con graves repercusiones sobre su sobrevivencia en tanto que pueblo.
Alleged victims: 4501
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13 Jan 2023
13 Jan 2023 (Annex)
    14 Nov 2022
    Sweden
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the situation of a Swedish child who was repatriated to Sudan in April 2019.
Alleged victims: 1
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16 Jan 2023
    14 Nov 2022
    Sudan
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the situation of a Swedish child who was repatriated to Sudan in April 2019.
Alleged victims: 1
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    07 Nov 2022
    Mexico
    JOL
  • health
  • business
  • cultural rights
  • food
Información recibida en relación con las resoluciones que tomará la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación sobre las pretensiones presentadas en el Amparo de revisión 358/2022, que impugnan los artículos 212 y 215 de la Ley General de Salud, así como la Modificación de la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM-051-SCFI/SSA1-2010, Especificaciones generales de etiquetado para alimentos y bebidas no alcohólicas preenvasados – Información comercial y sanitaria publicada el 5 de abril de 2020.
Alleged victims: -
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    26 Oct 2022
    United States of America
    JAL
  • unilateral coercive measures
  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • development
  • food
  • international solidarity
Information received concerning the serious challenges and obstacles in the implementation of humanitarian carve-outs (exemptions and exceptions) in the current US unilateral sanctions regimes, with serious adverse effects in the delivery of humanitarian aid and the lives of all those benefiting from such aid in the countries targeted by sanctions.
Alleged victims: -
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    26 Oct 2022
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disability
  • food
  • health
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Information received in respect of a British national currently detained in Al Roj camp, in North-East region of the Syrian Arab Republic. We have serious concerns about the deteriorating health of the victims.
Alleged victims: 2
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19 Apr 2023
    26 Oct 2022
    Permanent Delegation of the European Union
    JAL
  • unilateral coercive measures
  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • development
  • food
  • international solidarity
Information received concerning the serious challenges and obstacles in the implementation of EU humanitarian carve-outs/exceptions, such as exemptions and derogations, in the current unilateral sanction regimes, with serious adverse effects in the delivery of humanitarian aid and the lives of all those benefiting from such aid in the targeted by sanctions countries.
Alleged victims: -
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12 Dec 2022
    14 Oct 2022
    United Republic of Tanzania
    JAL
  • health
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disability
  • education
  • executions
  • food
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information concerning the trial of Ms. Veronica Gabriel, a survivor of gender-based and domestic violence, incarcerated in Tanzania, who gave birth of her sixth child while deprived of her liberty. She reportedly also suffers from mental illness and intellectual disability and has allegedly not received appropriate physical and mental health care and support while in detention.
Alleged victims: 1
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    12 Oct 2022
    El Salvador
    JOL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Comentarios y sugerencias sobre los decretos legislativos nos. 333, 358, 396, 427, 459, 476 y 503 mediante los cuales el Gobierno de Su Excelencia declaró y ha venido prorrogando el régimen de excepción vigente en el país. También ofrecemos nuestros comentarios con relación a los decretos legislativos nos. 337, 339, 341 y 342, mediante los cuales se aprobaron reformas a la Ley Penal, al Código Procesal Penal, a la Ley Especial contra Actos de Terrorismo y a la Ley Penal Juvenil por parte de la Asamblea Legislativa el 27 y 30 de marzo de 2022.
Alleged victims: -
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12 Dec 2022
    26 Sep 2022
    Australia
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of three Australian children currently being held in Roj camp in North-Eastern Syria.
Alleged victims: 3
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01 Dec 2022
    31 Aug 2022
    CGIAR
    AL
  • food
Information received concerning the recent governance changes within the Centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (hereinafter referred to as CGIAR) into “One CGIAR”, which represents great risks for the food security and sovereignty of many countries in the Global South, including of the African continent.
Alleged victims: -
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07 Oct 2022
    26 Aug 2022
    International Monetary Fund
    JAL
  • foreign debt
  • business
  • climate change
  • development
  • food
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • poverty
  • women and girls
Information on the differentiated impact of the surcharge policy that are part of the loan arrangements provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on debt affected countries and the rights of their populations.
Alleged victims: -
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26 Jun 2023
    04 Aug 2022
    United States of America
    JAL
  • business
  • development
  • food
  • foreign debt
  • poverty
Information received concerning BlackRock’s involvement in Zambia’s sovereign debt as the largest private fund manager holding nearly USD 220 million of the country’s sovereign bonds and its subsequent impact on the country’s ability to ensure the realization of human rights of its population including, responding to as well as mitigating the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and other emergencies.
Alleged victims: -
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    03 Aug 2022
    Sri Lanka
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • arbitrary Detention
  • development
  • food
  • foreign debt
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • international order
  • terrorism
  • truth
  • justice
  • reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
Information received the excessive and lethal use of force against protesters amid large scale daily demonstrations since 16 March 2022 that started in Colombo city and spread to other areas in Sri Lanka, in response to fiscal mismanagement of the debt crisis rising inflation, shortages of fuel and essential goods and prolonged power cuts as a result of a scarcity of foreign exchange. We would like to bring further attention to reports we’ve received on the subsequent arrests and arbitrary detention of peaceful protesters, human rights defenders, activists and journalists, seemingly for the legitimate exercise of their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, as well as to freedom of expression and of opinion.
Alleged victims: 1
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    29 Jul 2022
    BlackRock Inc.
    JAL
  • business
  • development
  • food
  • foreign debt
  • poverty
Information received concerning BlackRock’s role in Zambia’s sovereign debt as the largest private fund manager holding nearly USD 220 million of the country’s sovereign bonds and its subsequent impact on the country’s ability to ensure the realization of human rights of its population including, responding to as well as mitigating the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and other emergencies.
Alleged victims: -
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13 Sep 2022
    25 Jul 2022
    Nicaragua
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • minority issues
  • religion or belief
  • terrorism
  • women and girls
Información recibida sobre los alegatos de severas limitaciones al derecho a la libertad de asociación a través de la cancelación de la personalidad jurídica de al menos 700 organizaciones de la sociedad civil desde 2018, de ellas, 487 asociaciones solo en junio del año en curso.
Alleged victims: 6
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    05 Jul 2022
    Universal Corporation
    JAL
  • trafficking in persons
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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05 Sep 2022
    05 Jul 2022
    United States of America
    JAL
  • trafficking in persons
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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30 Dec 2022 (Ack.)
    05 Jul 2022
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JAL
  • trafficking in persons
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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01 Sep 2022
    05 Jul 2022
    Pyxus International Inc.
    JAL
  • trafficking in persons
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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06 Sep 2022
23 Nov 2022
    05 Jul 2022
    Philip Morris International Inc.
    JAL
  • trafficking in persons
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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28 Sep 2022
    05 Jul 2022
    Malawi
    JAL
  • trafficking in persons
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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09 Sep 2022
    05 Jul 2022
    Japan Tobacco Group
    JAL
  • trafficking in persons
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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30 Aug 2022
    05 Jul 2022
    Japan
    JAL
  • trafficking in persons
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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02 Sep 2022
    05 Jul 2022
    Imperial Brands PLC
    JAL
  • trafficking in persons
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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01 Sep 2022
01 Sep 2022 (Annex)
    05 Jul 2022
    British American Tobacco Plc
    JAL
  • trafficking in persons
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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02 Sep 2022
02 Sep 2022 (Annex)
02 Sep 2022 (Annex)
02 Sep 2022 (Annex)
02 Sep 2022 (Annex)
02 Sep 2022 (Annex)
02 Sep 2022 (Annex)
    05 Jul 2022
    AHL Group
    JAL
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of trafficking in persons for purposes of forced labour, including children, to which tenant farmers and their families in the tobacco farms are exposed to, as well as the related lack of accountability and access to effective remedy for victims of these serious human rights violations and serious crimes.
Alleged victims: 1
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    15 Jun 2022
    Brazil
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • African Descent
  • business
  • cultural rights
  • environment
  • food
  • health
  • indigenous peoples
  • older persons
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Information received concerning draft bill PL 6299/2002 (the so-called “poison package” or “poison bill”) which, after more than 20 years of review, was passed by the House of Representatives in less than four hours of debate on February 9, 2022. The Act, if passed by the Senate, would weaken regulations governing the approval, use and monitoring of pesticides in Brazil, exposing farmers, workers, indigenous peoples and peasant communities to hazardous substances. The draft bill would also allow the use of carcinogenic pesticides, as well as pesticides with a higher risk of reproductive and hormonal problems and malformations in babies. In addition, it would contravene the current measures and commitments your Excellency’s Government has taken to set out clear expectations of responsible business conduct, including respect for human rights.
Alleged victims: 1
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    08 Jun 2022
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • trafficking in persons
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary detention and inadequate detention conditions of Mr. Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen, currently detained in a detention center in the North-East region of the Syrian Arab Republic, at least since 2017.
Alleged victims: 1
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19 Apr 2023
    08 Jun 2022
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Information received concerning the excessive use of force against protesters, leading to the death of at least five protesters, as well as the arbitrary arrest of a large number of people at said protests. Further concerns are raised at the disruption of the internet, preventing access to and sharing of information on the events. In addition, concerns are raised over the wider crackdown on civil society and the largescale and arbitrary arrests of teachers, union leaders, labour rights defenders, human rights defenders, activists, artists and academics, many of whom have been accused of or charged with national security crimes.
Alleged victims: -
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10 Aug 2022
    08 Jun 2022
    Canada
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • trafficking in persons
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary detention and inadequate detention conditions of Mr. Jack Letts, a Canadian citizen, currently detained in a detention center in the North-East region of the Syrian Arab Republic at least since 2017.
Alleged victims: 1
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24 Aug 2022
    06 Apr 2022
    United States of America
    JAL
  • unilateral coercive measures
  • development
  • executions
  • food
  • foreign debt
  • health
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • minority issues
  • poverty
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the critical humanitarian situation faced by millions in Afghanistan since the collapse of the former government in August 2021 and the decision of your Excellency’s Government to block the foreign assets of Afghanistan’s central bank (Da Afghanistan Bank) as an addition to the applicable sanctions regime, and which may have serious adverse effects on all efforts to support basic human needs in the country.
Alleged victims: -
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    23 Mar 2022
    Paraguay
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida en relación con el desplazamiento de más de 1.000 familias que fueron desalojadas de sus territorios en 13 operativos distintos realizados entre mayo y noviembre de 2021. La mayoría de las familias desalojadas corresponden a pueblos indígenas de la parcialidad Avá Guaraní.
Alleged victims: 1056
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15 Jun 2022
    14 Mar 2022
    General Min Aung Hlaing
    JAL
  • internally displaced persons
  • executions
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • housing
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • religion or belief
  • violence against women
Information received concerning violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed in the context of Tatmadaw operations across Myanmar, which have included deliberate attacks against civilians, summary executions, indiscriminate attacks on population centers, arbitrary detentions, the widespread destruction of civilian homes and structures and the looting of civilian property, gender-based violence against women, including sexual violence, the use of civilians as human shields, the occupation of medical facilities and threats against healthcare workers, the obstruction of humanitarian aid, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, the targeting of religious personnel and persecution of minorities and individuals based on their perceived religious affiliation, and mass forced displacement with limited prospects for durable solutions.
Alleged victims: 441500
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    03 Mar 2022
    Spain
    JAL
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
Información recibida en relación con el impacto sobre los derechos humanos de los derrames de petróleo en el litoral marítimo del Callao en las instalaciones de la Refinería La Pampilla S.A.A o Relapasa, una subsidiaria de Repsol Perú B.V. que forma parte del grupo español Repsol.
Alleged victims: 1
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06 May 2022
    03 Mar 2022
    Repsol S.A.
    JAL
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
Información recibida en relación con el impacto sobre los derechos humanos de los derrames de petróleo en el litoral marítimo del Callao en las instalaciones de la Refinería La Pampilla S.A.A o Relapasa, una subsidiaria de Repsol Perú B.V., que forma parte del grupo español Repsol S.A.
Alleged victims: 1
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31 Mar 2022
    03 Mar 2022
    Repsol Peru BV
    JAL
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
Información recibida en relación con el impacto sobre los derechos humanos de los derrames de petróleo en el litoral marítimo del Callao en las instalaciones de la Refinería La Pampilla S.A.A o Relapasa, una subsidiaria de Repsol Perú B.V., que forma parte del grupo español Repsol S.A.
Alleged victims: 1
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    03 Mar 2022
    Refineria La Pampilla SAA
    JAL
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
Información recibida en relación con el impacto sobre los derechos humanos de los derrames de petróleo en el litoral marítimo del Callao en las instalaciones de la Refinería La Pampilla S.A.A o Relapasa, una subsidiaria de Repsol Perú B.V., que forma parte del grupo español Repsol S.A.
Alleged victims: 1
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    03 Mar 2022
    Peru
    JAL
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
información recibida en relación con el impacto sobre los derechos humanos de los derrames de petróleo en el litoral marítimo del Callao en las instalaciones de la Refinería La Pampilla S.A.A o Relapasa, una subsidiaria de Repsol Perú B.V. que forma parte del grupo español Repsol.
Alleged victims: 1
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05 May 2022
    03 Mar 2022
    Netherlands
    JAL
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
Information received regarding the human rights impact of oil spills on the Callao maritime coastline at the facilities of the La Pampilla S.A.A. Refinery or Relapasa, a subsidiary of Repsol Peru B.V., which forms part of the Spanish Repsol group.
Alleged victims: 1
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31 May 2023
    16 Feb 2022
    Australia
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the situation of forty-six Australian citizens, including thirty children, who are currently being held in different camps in North-Eastern Syria. We have deep concerns about the conditions of detention in the camps, notably Al-Hol and Roj where most of these individuals are held and are deprived of their liberty without any judicial process.
Alleged victims: 47
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30 Mar 2022
    09 Feb 2022
    United Republic of Tanzania
    JAL
  • housing
  • cultural rights
  • environment
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning plans for resettlement, forced evictions, home demolitions and additional restrictions to livelihood, which are due to affect by 2027 some 82,000 residents of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, including indigenous Maasai pastoralists. Such plans have allegedly not been consulted with the Maasai people with a view to obtaining their free, prior and informed consent and would jeopardize their physical and cultural survival in the name of “nature conservation”, ignoring the close relationship that the Maasai have traditionally had with their territories, their stewardship role and the root causes of the current threats to the healthy environment of these territories.
Alleged victims: 82001
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08 Apr 2022
    09 Feb 2022
    UNESCO
    JAL
  • housing
  • cultural rights
  • environment
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning plans for resettlement, forced evictions, home demolitions and additional restrictions to livelihood, which are due to affect by 2027 some 82,000 residents of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, including indigenous Maasai pastoralists. Such plans have allegedly not been consulted with the Maasai people with a view to obtaining their free, prior and informed consent and would jeopardize their physical and cultural survival in the name of “nature conservation”, ignoring the close relationship that the Maasai have traditionally had with their territories, their stewardship role and the root causes of the current threats to the healthy environment of these territories.
Alleged victims: 82001
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08 Apr 2022
    09 Feb 2022
    International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
    JAL
  • housing
  • cultural rights
  • environment
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning plans for resettlement, forced evictions, home demolitions and additional restrictions to livelihood, which are due to affect by 2027 some 82,000 residents of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, including indigenous Maasai pastoralists. Such plans have allegedly not been consulted with the Maasai people with a view to obtaining their free, prior and informed consent and would jeopardize their physical and cultural survival in the name of “nature conservation”, ignoring the close relationship that the Maasai have traditionally had with their territories, their stewardship role and the root causes of the current threats to the healthy environment of these territories.
Alleged victims: 82001
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06 Apr 2022
    09 Feb 2022
    International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
    JAL
  • housing
  • cultural rights
  • environment
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning plans for resettlement, forced evictions, home demolitions and additional restrictions to livelihood, which are due to affect by 2027 some 82,000 residents of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, including indigenous Maasai pastoralists. Such plans have allegedly not been consulted with the Maasai people with a view to obtaining their free, prior and informed consent and would jeopardize their physical and cultural survival in the name of “nature conservation”, ignoring the close relationship that the Maasai have traditionally had with their territories, their stewardship role and the root causes of the current threats to the healthy environment of these territories.
Alleged victims: 82001
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27 Apr 2022
    01 Feb 2022
    United States of America
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • racism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of a number of boys and men holding your Excellency’s citizenship currently detained in North-East Syria.
Alleged victims: 1
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12 Jul 2022
    01 Feb 2022
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • racism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of a number of boys and men holding your Excellency’s citizenship currently detained in North-East Syria.
Alleged victims: 1
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27 Apr 2022
    01 Feb 2022
    Sweden
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • racism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of a number of boys and men holding your Excellency’s citizenship currently detained in North-East Syria.
Alleged victims: 1
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01 Apr 2022
    01 Feb 2022
    Germany
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • racism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of a number of boys and men holding your Excellency’s citizenship currently detained in North-East Syria.
Alleged victims: 1
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29 Mar 2022
    01 Feb 2022
    France
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • racism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of a number of boys and men holding your Excellency’s citizenship currently detained in North-East Syria.
Alleged victims: 1
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    01 Feb 2022
    Austria
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • racism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of a number of boys and men holding your Excellency’s citizenship currently detained in North-East Syria.
Alleged victims: 1
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19 Apr 2022 (Ack.)
16 May 2022
    01 Feb 2022
    Australia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • racism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of a number of boys and men holding your Excellency’s citizenship currently detained in North-East Syria.
Alleged victims: 1
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30 Mar 2022
    26 Jan 2022
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • minority issues
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the water and environmental policies in Khuzestan province which have led to a serious water and environmental crisis impacting life, livelihood, biodiversity and the environment. Further information is received at the violent dispersal by police and security forces of peaceful protests in Khuzestan province who protested the water crisis; the use of lethal force against unarmed protesters leading to the killing of at least nine individuals, including at least one child, and the injuring of a number of others; arrest and alleged arbitrary detention of protesters some of them being or have been subjected to enforced disappearance; and disruptions to internet access and mobile data.
Alleged victims: 10
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08 Mar 2022
    19 Jan 2022
    Brazil
    JAL
  • racism
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
Information received concerning allegations of systemic and structural discrimination against indigenous peoples that has been exacerbated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The information we have received raises concerns that these alleged discriminatory policies and practices would violate your Government’s obligations under international law, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), and the international standards contained in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). We are alarmed by reports that systemic racial discrimination and racist violence against indigenous peoples has been exacerbated in recent years, this regression being accelerated by the public and private response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alleged victims: -
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21 Mar 2022
    21 Dec 2021
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • torture
Information received concerning the protests in the city of Esfahan and the authorities’ use of unlawful force against protesters resulting in severe injuries and arrest of individuals participating in the protests.
Alleged victims: 2
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    26 Nov 2021
    Canada
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the arbitrary detention and inadequate detention conditions, including restricted access to food, water and medical care, of Ms. Kimberly Polman, a Canadian citizen, currently detained in Roj camp in the North-East region of the Syrian Arab Republic at least since 19 March 2019.
Alleged victims: 1
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25 Jan 2022
    12 Nov 2021
    India
    OL
  • food
Information concerning the adoption of three laws: The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act 2020, The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act 2020, and The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act 2020.
Alleged victims: -
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    28 Oct 2021
    Tunisia
    JUA
  • racism
  • African Descent
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • migrants
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
Informations reçues concernant les allégation d’expulsion collective de migrants des pays d’Afrique Sub-saharienne, y compris des femmes enceintes et des enfants de la Tunisie vers la Libye
Alleged victims: 1
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    28 Oct 2021
    Libya
    JUA
  • racism
  • African Descent
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • migrants
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
Information received regarding the allegations of collective expulsion of migrants from sub-Saharan African countries, among them pregnant women and children from Tunisia to Libya
Alleged victims: 1
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    30 Sep 2021
    Uganda
    JAL
  • food
  • arbitrary Detention
  • environment
  • health
  • housing
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • torture
  • toxics and human rights
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the allegations of the persistent long-standing issue of forced evictions affecting more than 35,000 residents of the Kiryandongo district, Uganda, and the resulting impact on the affected population’s access to adequate food. Reports of forced evictions began in 2017 and have persisted as three multinational companies — Agilis Partners Limited, Kiryandongo Sugar Limited, Great Season SMC Limited — have allegedly acquired and converted national ranchland into plantations without obtaining consent from, or providing fair compensation to, residents who had occupied and cultivated the land for decades.
Alleged victims: 3
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    30 Sep 2021
    Kiryandongo Sugar limited
    JAL
  • food
  • environment
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • torture
  • toxics and human rights
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the allegations of the persistent long-standing issue of forced evictions affecting more than 35,000 residents of the Kiryandongo district, in Uganda, and the resulting impact on the affected population’s access to adequate food. Reports of forced evictions began in 2017 and have persisted as three multinational companies—Agilis Partners Limited, Kiryandongo Sugar Limited, Great Season SMC Limited—had allegedly acquired and converted national ranchland into plantations without obtaining consent from, or providing fair compensation to, residents who have occupied and cultivated the land for decades.
Alleged victims: 3
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    30 Sep 2021
    Great Season SMC Limited
    JAL
  • food
  • environment
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • torture
  • toxics and human rights
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the allegations of the persistent long-standing issue of forced evictions affecting more than 35,000 residents of the Kiryandongo district, Uganda, and the resulting impact on the affected population’s access to adequate food. Reports of forced evictions began in 2017 and have persisted as three multinational companies—Agilis Partners Limited, Kiryandongo Sugar Limited, Great Season SMC Limited—have allegedly acquired and converted national ranchland into plantations without obtaining consent from, or providing fair compensation to, residents who had occupied and cultivated the land for decades.
Alleged victims: 3
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    30 Sep 2021
    Agilis Partners
    JAL
  • food
  • environment
  • health
  • housing
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • torture
  • toxics and human rights
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the allegations of the persistent long-standing issue of forced evictions affecting more than 35,000 residents of the Kiryandongo district, Uganda, and the resulting impact on the affected population’s access to adequate food. Reports of forced evictions began in 2017 and have persisted as three multinational companies —Agilis Partners Limited, Kiryandongo Sugar Limited, Great Season SMC Limited—have allegedly acquired and converted national ranchland into plantations without obtaining consent from, or providing fair compensation to, residents who had occupied and cultivated the land for decades.
Alleged victims: 3
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29 Nov 2021
    24 Sep 2021
    Guatemala
    JAL
  • poverty
  • food
  • housing
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida en relación con la situación de un grupo de trabajadores (usualmente llamados “mozos colonos”) que vivían y trabajaban en la Finca “La Soledad”, en el Municipio de Patulul, Departamento de Suchitepéquez en 2009. En noviembre de 2009, un total de 49 trabajadores formaron un sindicato (SITRASOLEDAD). La formación de dicho sindicato, se alega, resultó en la pérdida de su empleo y como consecuencia de ello, de su vivienda familiar, así como sus medios de subsistencia. Estos hechos, a su vez, llevaron a falta de cobertura de la seguridad social a pesar de decisiones judiciales a favor de los trabajadores y sus familias para restablecer sus puestos de trabajo. En particular, expresamos preocupación por la situación de los Srs. Alfonso Enriquez Chonay, Carlos Enrique Serech de León, Carlos Anibal Ramirez Paiz, Edy Marvin Canás Chonay, Esmelin Valeriano Castillo Leiva, Felipe Arreaga Catalán; de los Srs. Isaías Bautista López, Jairo Elias Canás García, Jairon Baldemir Bizarro Comatzín, José Luis Cux Chicoj, José Manuel Tzoc Suar, Josué Misael Bizarro Comatzín, Lester Onelio Ramirez Arreaga, Luis Antonio Ramírez Arreaga y Rodrigo García Cunen, miembros de la comunidad indígena Maya Quiché; y por la defunción, sin atención médica adecuada y oportuna, de los señores Hector Antonio Bizarro Comatzín, Hector Manuel Ixen, y Hugo Leonel Arreaga Méndez.
Alleged victims: 18
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19 Nov 2021
    24 Sep 2021
    Compañía Agrícola Industrial Solesa S.A.
    JAL
  • poverty
  • food
  • housing
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida en relación con la situación de un grupo de trabajadores (usualmente llamados “mozos colonos”) que vivían y trabajaban en la Finca “La Soledad”, en el Municipio de Patulul, Departamento de Suchitepéquez en 2009. En noviembre de 2009, un total de 49 trabajadores formaron un sindicato (SITRASOLEDAD). La formación de dicho sindicato, se alega, resultó en la pérdida de su empleo y como consecuencia de ello, de su vivienda familiar, así como sus medios de subsistencia. Estos hechos, a su vez, llevaron a falta de cobertura de la seguridad social a pesar de decisiones judiciales a favor de los trabajadores y sus familias para restablecer sus puestos de trabajo. En particular, expresamos preocupación por la situación de los Srs. Alfonso Enriquez Chonay, Carlos Enrique Serech de León, Carlos Anibal Ramirez Paiz, Edy Marvin Canás Chonay, Esmelin Valeriano Castillo Leiva, Felipe Arreaga Catalán, Isaías Bautista López, Jairo Elias Canás García, Jairon Baldemir Bizarro Comatzín, José Luis Cux Chicoj, José Manuel Tzoc Suar, Josué Misael Bizarro Comatzín, Lester Onelio Ramirez Arreaga, Luis Antonio Ramírez Arreaga y Rodrigo García Cunen y por la defunción, sin atención médica adecuada y oportuna, de los señores Hector Antonio Bizarro Comatzín, Hector Manuel Ixen, y Hugo Leonel Arreaga Méndez.
Alleged victims: 18
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    22 Jun 2021
    United States of America
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the impacts of the development of the Barbuda Ocean Beach Club, a multi-million dollar luxury resort project developed by the Peace Love and Happiness Partnership (PLH), a US-based investors’ company registered in Antigua and Barbuda and built by Discovery Land Company, a US-based developer, on the human rights of the population of Barbuda, including to food, housing, water and sanitation and to a healthy environment and cultural rights.
Alleged victims: 21
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    22 Jun 2021
    The Peace Love and Happiness Partnership
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the impacts of the development of the Barbuda Ocean Beach Club, a multi-million dollar luxury resort project developed by your company, the Peace Love and Happiness Partnership (PLH), a US-based investors’ company registered in Antigua and Barbuda and built by Discovery Land Company, a US-based developer, on the human rights of the population of Barbuda, including to food, housing, water and sanitation and to a healthy environment and cultural rights.
Alleged victims: 21
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02 Jul 2021
20 Aug 2021
08 Nov 2021
    22 Jun 2021
    Discovery Land Company
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the impacts of the development of the Barbuda Ocean Beach Club, a multi-million dollar luxury resort project developed by the Peace Love and Happiness Partnership (PLH), a US-based investors’ company registered in Antigua and Barbuda and built by your company, Discovery Land Company, a US-based developer, on the human rights of the population of Barbuda, including to food, housing, water and sanitation and to a healthy environment and cultural rights.
Alleged victims: 21
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20 Aug 2021
    22 Jun 2021
    Bahamas Hot Mix Co. Ltd.
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the impacts of the development of an airport by your company, domiciled in the Bahamas, on the human rights of the population of Barbuda, including to food, housing, water and sanitation and to a healthy environment and cultural rights.
Alleged victims: 21
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22 Feb 2022
    22 Jun 2021
    Bahamas
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the impacts of the development of an airport by Bahamas Hot Mix Co. Ltd., a company domiciled in your territory, on the human rights of the population of Barbuda, including to food, housing, water and sanitation and to a healthy environment and cultural rights.
Alleged victims: 21
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19 Jul 2021 (Ack.)
    22 Jun 2021
    Antigua and Barbuda
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the impacts of the development of an airport and the Barbuda Ocean Beach Club, a luxury tourist structure, on the human rights of the population of Barbuda, including to food, housing, water and sanitation and to a healthy environment and cultural rights.
Alleged victims: 21
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    21 Jun 2021
    Tunisia
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • migrants
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant le manque d’assistance des autorités tunisiennes pour faciliter le rapatriement de quatre jeunes filles tunisiennes et les deux enfants de la fille ainée, qui se trouveraient aux camps Al Hol et al-Amarnah en Syrie.
Alleged victims: 6
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17 Aug 2021 (Ack.)
    21 Jun 2021
    Peru
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • torture
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Información recibida con relación a alegaciones sobre la situación jurídica incierta, y las condiciones de detención de 85 ciudadanos y ciudadanas peruanos a quienes se les imputaría el delito de terrorismo en la modalidad de afiliación a agrupación terrorista contemplado en el artículo 5º del Decreto Ley 25475.
Alleged victims: 85
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19 Aug 2021
    14 Jun 2021
    Mexico
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • poverty
  • torture
Información recibida en relación con los hostigamientos, allanamientos, robos y amenazas de muerte en contra de la señora Francia Nelly Henao Agudelo relacionados con la búsqueda de justicia, verdad y reparación en el caso de su hijo, que ha traído como consecuencia un deterioro en su salud, vivienda, alimentación y situación de pobreza extrema.
Alleged victims: 2
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    28 May 2021
    Brazil
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • environment
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • toxics and human rights
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Information received concerning escalating violence against Munduruku and Yanomami indigenous peoples, including attacks against the Munduruku Wakoborũn Women’s Association, mercury contamination in the Amazonian indigenous lands, and the proposed Bill no. 191/2020.
Alleged victims: 2
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27 Jul 2021
    04 May 2021
    Bahamas
    JUA
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • internally displaced persons
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • torture
Information received concerning policies to deport undocumented Haitian migrants and to eradicate informal settlements known as “shanty towns” inhabited primarily by persons of Haitian origin or descent without any consultations or alternative accommodation provided to the affected minority and migrant communities. These policies have not taken into account the extreme vulnerability of the Haitian communities in the wake of category 5 Hurricane Dorian, which hit the Bahamas in September 2019, as a result of which many lost their lives, possessions, savings, personal documentation and jobs. Undocumented Haitian migrants are being deported in violation of the principle of non-refoulement, without individual assessments and due process guarantees, while informal settlements are being targeted for destruction without any consultation with their residents or the provision of adequate alternative housing. In April 2021, the authorities started an operation aiming to demolish around 600 newly-reconstructed homes in two adjacent informal settlements known as the Farm and the Farm Road on Abaco island, which will displace up to 2,000 persons (approx. 600 families), many of them women and children.
Alleged victims: 3000
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    27 Apr 2021
    Lao People's Democratic Republic
    JUA
  • disappearances
  • environment
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • indigenous peoples
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of the Hmong community located in the Phou Bia region, referred as to “ChaoFa Hmong”. More precisely, with regards to reported acts of intimidation and reprisals by the Lao military forces against the relatives of an elderly Hmong man and three Hmong girls, victims of enforced disappearance since March 2020, following an intervention by Special Procedures mandate-holders on 31 August 2020.
Alleged victims: 1
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    19 Apr 2021
    Switzerland
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • minority issues
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant le refus des autorités Suisses d'organiser le rapatriement de deux demi-sœurs qui se trouvent dans le camp de Roj. Les deux filles auraient été enlevées par leur mère et amenées en Syrie où elle s’est rendue pour rejoindre l’organisation de l’Etat islamique.
Alleged victims: 2
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24 Jun 2021
    19 Apr 2021
    Ethiopia
    JAL
  • internally displaced persons
  • arbitrary Detention
  • Eritrea
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning allegations related to violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed in the context of the conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, including deliberate attacks against civilians and summary executions, indiscriminate attacks, sexual violence, arbitrary detention, destruction and looting of civilian property, and displacement of ethnic Tigrayans.
Alleged victims: 950000
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18 Jun 2021
    19 Apr 2021
    Eritrea
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • Eritrea
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • internally displaced persons
  • trafficking in persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning allegations related to violations of human rights and international humanitarian law committed by the Eritrean Army in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, including deliberate attacks against civilians and summary executions, indiscriminate attacks, sexual and gender-based violence, arbitrary detention, destruction and looting of civilian property and displacement.
Alleged victims: 950000
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14 Jun 2021
    19 Mar 2021
    Mozambique
    JAL
  • internally displaced persons
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disability
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • older persons
Information received concerning allegations of human rights violations and mass displacement in Mozambique in the context of attacks and military operations in Cabo Delgado province.
Alleged victims: 1
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    11 Mar 2021
    Thailand
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • environment
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • poverty
Information received concerning the serious risks to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations in the context of the 2009 Montara Oil Spill in the Timor Sea.
Alleged victims: -
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16 Mar 2021
    11 Mar 2021
    PPT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP)
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • environment
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • poverty
Information received concerning the serious risks to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations in the context of the 2009 Montara Oil Spill in the Timor Sea.
Alleged victims: -
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10 May 2021
    11 Mar 2021
    Indonesia
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • environment
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • poverty
Information received concerning the serious risks to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations in the context of the 2009 Montara Oil Spill in the Timor Sea.
Alleged victims: -
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12 May 2021
    11 Mar 2021
    Australia
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • environment
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • poverty
Information received concerning the serious risks to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations in the context of the 2009 Montara Oil Spill in the Timor Sea.
Alleged victims: -
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10 May 2021
    09 Mar 2021
    India
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • arbitrary Detention
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • minority issues
  • poverty
  • terrorism
Information received concerning increasingly severe restrictions to fundamental freedoms in the context of the ongoing “Farmers’ Protests” around New Delhi.
Alleged victims: -
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05 May 2021
    15 Feb 2021
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    JUA
  • migrants
  • food
  • housing
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of over 1,500 migrants in and around the destroyed Lipa camp site in Bosnia and Herzegovina, facing harsh conditions in winter with no shelter, water, sanitation or electricity as well as the lack of appropriate protection measures in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. These persons join the growing number of migrants sleeping rough in Una Sana Canton, raising the overall number of migrants in dire need of adequate housing to almost 3,000.
Alleged victims: 3050
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    29 Jan 2021
    United States of America
    JOL
  • unilateral coercive measures
  • food
  • internally displaced persons
  • international solidarity
Information received about the negative impact on human rights of sanctions imposed as the result of declarations of what appears to be permanent state of national emergencies by the President of the United States under authority granted by the legislative acts based on the National Emergencies
Alleged victims: -
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    29 Jan 2021
    Sri Lanka
    JAL
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • torture
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations in relation to prison conditions and management in Sri Lanka. This includes information received on alleged prison overcrowding, high levels of COVID-19 in prisons, incidents in prisons reportedly leading to the killings of prisoners including in Anuradhapura, Bogambara and Mahara prisons and suicides in detention.
Alleged victims: 27
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    28 Jan 2021
    Saudi Arabia
    JUA
  • migrants
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • health
  • torture
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the current situation of migrants who are stranded in overcrowded detention centers for prolonged and indefinite periods. These migrants have been held in unsanitary and dehumanizing conditions without adequate healthcare access nor necessary protection measures in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alleged victims: 300
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12 May 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Yemen
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Viet Nam
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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26 Mar 2021 (Ack.)
26 Apr 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Uzbekistan
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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27 Mar 2021
02 Jun 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    United States of America
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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07 Jun 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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16 Apr 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Ukraine
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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07 Apr 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Türkiye
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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26 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Tunisia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une opération d'enregistrement et de vérification dans les camps d'Al-Hol et de Roj situés dans le nord-est de la Syrie où vos ressortissants, principalement des femmes et des enfants, sont actuellement privés de liberté. Dans ces camps de fortune fermés, constitués de structures vétustes qui s'effondrent sous l'effet de vents violents ou qui sont inondées par la pluie ou les eaux usées, les conditions sanitaires sont déplorables: l'eau potable est souvent contaminée, les latrines débordent, des monticules d'ordures jonchent le sol, et les maladies, y compris les infections virales, y sévissent. La nourriture, l'eau, les soins de santé et les produits non alimentaires essentiels sont fournis par des groupes et des organisations humanitaires aux ressources insuffisantes. Selon le Croissant rouge kurde, au moins 517 personnes, dont 371 enfants, seraient mortes en 2019, dont beaucoup de maladies évitables, rien que dans le camp d'Al-Hol. En août 2020, selon UNICEF, huit enfants de moins de cinq ans sont morts dans ce camp en moins d'une semaine, dont quatre à cause de complications liées à la malnutrition et les autres à cause d'une déshydratation due à la diarrhée, à une insuffisance cardiaque, à une hémorragie interne et à une hypoglycémie. Le Covid-19 a accru ces difficultés, en réduisant le nombre d’employés opérant dans le camp.
Alleged victims: 700
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29 Apr 2021 (Ack.)
    26 Jan 2021
    Trinidad and Tobago
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Tajikistan
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Switzerland
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une opération d'enregistrement et de vérification dans les camps d'Al-Hol et de Roj situés dans le nord-est de la Syrie où vos ressortissants, principalement des femmes et des enfants, sont actuellement privés de liberté. Dans ces camps de fortune fermés, constitués de structures vétustes qui s'effondrent sous l'effet de vents violents ou qui sont inondées par la pluie ou les eaux usées, les conditions sanitaires sont déplorables: l'eau potable est souvent contaminée, les latrines débordent, des monticules d'ordures jonchent le sol, et les maladies, y compris les infections virales, y sévissent. La nourriture, l'eau, les soins de santé et les produits non alimentaires essentiels sont fournis par des groupes et des organisations humanitaires aux ressources insuffisantes. Selon le Croissant rouge kurde, au moins 517 personnes, dont 371 enfants, seraient mortes en 2019, dont beaucoup de maladies évitables, rien que dans le camp d'Al-Hol. En août 2020, selon UNICEF, huit enfants de moins de cinq ans sont morts dans ce camp en moins d'une semaine, dont quatre à cause de complications liées à la malnutrition et les autres à cause d'une déshydratation due à la diarrhée, à une insuffisance cardiaque, à une hémorragie interne et à une hypoglycémie. Le Covid-19 a accru ces difficultés, en réduisant le nombre d’employés opérant dans le camp.
Alleged victims: 700
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26 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Sweden
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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26 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Sudan
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    State of Palestine
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Spain
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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25 Mar 2021 (Ack.)
20 May 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Somalia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Serbia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Senegal
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une opération d'enregistrement et de vérification dans les camps d'Al-Hol et de Roj situés dans le nord-est de la Syrie où vos ressortissants, principalement des femmes et des enfants, sont actuellement privés de liberté. Dans ces camps de fortune fermés, constitués de structures vétustes qui s'effondrent sous l'effet de vents violents ou qui sont inondées par la pluie ou les eaux usées, les conditions sanitaires sont déplorables: l'eau potable est souvent contaminée, les latrines débordent, des monticules d'ordures jonchent le sol, et les maladies, y compris les infections virales, y sévissent. La nourriture, l'eau, les soins de santé et les produits non alimentaires essentiels sont fournis par des groupes et des organisations humanitaires aux ressources insuffisantes. Selon le Croissant rouge kurde, au moins 517 personnes, dont 371 enfants, seraient mortes en 2019, dont beaucoup de maladies évitables, rien que dans le camp d'Al-Hol. En août 2020, selon UNICEF, huit enfants de moins de cinq ans sont morts dans ce camp en moins d'une semaine, dont quatre à cause de complications liées à la malnutrition et les autres à cause d'une déshydratation due à la diarrhée, à une insuffisance cardiaque, à une hémorragie interne et à une hypoglycémie. Le Covid-19 a accru ces difficultés, en réduisant le nombre d’employés opérant dans le camp.
Alleged victims: 700
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    26 Jan 2021
    Saudi Arabia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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04 Feb 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Romania
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une opération d'enregistrement et de vérification dans les camps d'Al-Hol et de Roj situés dans le nord-est de la Syrie où vos ressortissants, principalement des femmes et des enfants, sont actuellement privés de liberté. Dans ces camps de fortune fermés, constitués de structures vétustes qui s'effondrent sous l'effet de vents violents ou qui sont inondées par la pluie ou les eaux usées, les conditions sanitaires sont déplorables: l'eau potable est souvent contaminée, les latrines débordent, des monticules d'ordures jonchent le sol, et les maladies, y compris les infections virales, y sévissent. La nourriture, l'eau, les soins de santé et les produits non alimentaires essentiels sont fournis par des groupes et des organisations humanitaires aux ressources insuffisantes. Selon le Croissant rouge kurde, au moins 517 personnes, dont 371 enfants, seraient mortes en 2019, dont beaucoup de maladies évitables, rien que dans le camp d'Al-Hol. En août 2020, selon UNICEF, huit enfants de moins de cinq ans sont morts dans ce camp en moins d'une semaine, dont quatre à cause de complications liées à la malnutrition et les autres à cause d'une déshydratation due à la diarrhée, à une insuffisance cardiaque, à une hémorragie interne et à une hypoglycémie. Le Covid-19 a accru ces difficultés, en réduisant le nombre d’employés opérant dans le camp.
Alleged victims: 700
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22 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Portugal
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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01 Feb 2021
01 Apr 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Poland
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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14 May 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Philippines
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Pakistan
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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29 Jan 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Norway
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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26 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    North Macedonia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Netherlands
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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12 Apr 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Morocco
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une opération d'enregistrement et de vérification dans les camps d'Al-Hol et de Roj situés dans le nord-est de la Syrie où vos ressortissants, principalement des femmes et des enfants, sont actuellement privés de liberté. Dans ces camps de fortune fermés, constitués de structures vétustes qui s'effondrent sous l'effet de vents violents ou qui sont inondées par la pluie ou les eaux usées, les conditions sanitaires sont déplorables: l'eau potable est souvent contaminée, les latrines débordent, des monticules d'ordures jonchent le sol, et les maladies, y compris les infections virales, y sévissent. La nourriture, l'eau, les soins de santé et les produits non alimentaires essentiels sont fournis par des groupes et des organisations humanitaires aux ressources insuffisantes. Selon le Croissant rouge kurde, au moins 517 personnes, dont 371 enfants, seraient mortes en 2019, dont beaucoup de maladies évitables, rien que dans le camp d'Al-Hol. En août 2020, selon UNICEF, huit enfants de moins de cinq ans sont morts dans ce camp en moins d'une semaine, dont quatre à cause de complications liées à la malnutrition et les autres à cause d'une déshydratation due à la diarrhée, à une insuffisance cardiaque, à une hémorragie interne et à une hypoglycémie. Le Covid-19 a accru ces difficultés, en réduisant le nombre d’employés opérant dans le camp.
Alleged victims: 700
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08 Apr 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Maldives
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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05 Oct 2023
    26 Jan 2021
    Malaysia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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08 Feb 2021 (Ack.)
    26 Jan 2021
    Libya
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Lebanon
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une opération d'enregistrement et de vérification dans les camps d'Al-Hol et de Roj situés dans le nord-est de la Syrie où vos ressortissants, principalement des femmes et des enfants, sont actuellement privés de liberté. Dans ces camps de fortune fermés, constitués de structures vétustes qui s'effondrent sous l'effet de vents violents ou qui sont inondées par la pluie ou les eaux usées, les conditions sanitaires sont déplorables: l'eau potable est souvent contaminée, les latrines débordent, des monticules d'ordures jonchent le sol, et les maladies, y compris les infections virales, y sévissent. La nourriture, l'eau, les soins de santé et les produits non alimentaires essentiels sont fournis par des groupes et des organisations humanitaires aux ressources insuffisantes. Selon le Croissant rouge kurde, au moins 517 personnes, dont 371 enfants, seraient mortes en 2019, dont beaucoup de maladies évitables, rien que dans le camp d'Al-Hol. En août 2020, selon UNICEF, huit enfants de moins de cinq ans sont morts dans ce camp en moins d'une semaine, dont quatre à cause de complications liées à la malnutrition et les autres à cause d'une déshydratation due à la diarrhée, à une insuffisance cardiaque, à une hémorragie interne et à une hypoglycémie. Le Covid-19 a accru ces difficultés, en réduisant le nombre d’employés opérant dans le camp.
Alleged victims: 700
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    26 Jan 2021
    Kyrgyzstan
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Kazakhstan
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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06 Apr 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Indonesia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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22 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Germany
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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25 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Georgia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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03 Aug 2022 (Ack.)
    26 Jan 2021
    France
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une opération d'enregistrement et de vérification dans les camps d'Al-Hol et de Roj situés dans le nord-est de la Syrie où vos ressortissants, principalement des femmes et des enfants, sont actuellement privés de liberté. Dans ces camps de fortune fermés, constitués de structures vétustes qui s'effondrent sous l'effet de vents violents ou qui sont inondées par la pluie ou les eaux usées, les conditions sanitaires sont déplorables: l'eau potable est souvent contaminée, les latrines débordent, des monticules d'ordures jonchent le sol, et les maladies, y compris les infections virales, y sévissent. La nourriture, l'eau, les soins de santé et les produits non alimentaires essentiels sont fournis par des groupes et des organisations humanitaires aux ressources insuffisantes. Selon le Croissant rouge kurde, au moins 517 personnes, dont 371 enfants, seraient mortes en 2019, dont beaucoup de maladies évitables, rien que dans le camp d'Al-Hol. En août 2020, selon UNICEF, huit enfants de moins de cinq ans sont morts dans ce camp en moins d'une semaine, dont quatre à cause de complications liées à la malnutrition et les autres à cause d'une déshydratation due à la diarrhée, à une insuffisance cardiaque, à une hémorragie interne et à une hypoglycémie. Le Covid-19 a accru ces difficultés, en réduisant le nombre d’employés opérant dans le camp.
Alleged victims: 700
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26 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Finland
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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26 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Estonia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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25 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Egypt
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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12 Jul 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Canada
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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14 Apr 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Bosnia and Herzegovina
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Belgium
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une opération d'enregistrement et de vérification dans les camps d'Al-Hol et de Roj situés dans le nord-est de la Syrie où vos ressortissants, principalement des femmes et des enfants, sont actuellement privés de liberté. Dans ces camps de fortune fermés, constitués de structures vétustes qui s'effondrent sous l'effet de vents violents ou qui sont inondées par la pluie ou les eaux usées, les conditions sanitaires sont déplorables: l'eau potable est souvent contaminée, les latrines débordent, des monticules d'ordures jonchent le sol, et les maladies, y compris les infections virales, y sévissent. La nourriture, l'eau, les soins de santé et les produits non alimentaires essentiels sont fournis par des groupes et des organisations humanitaires aux ressources insuffisantes. Selon le Croissant rouge kurde, au moins 517 personnes, dont 371 enfants, seraient mortes en 2019, dont beaucoup de maladies évitables, rien que dans le camp d'Al-Hol. En août 2020, selon UNICEF, huit enfants de moins de cinq ans sont morts dans ce camp en moins d'une semaine, dont quatre à cause de complications liées à la malnutrition et les autres à cause d'une déshydratation due à la diarrhée, à une insuffisance cardiaque, à une hémorragie interne et à une hypoglycémie. Le Covid-19 a accru ces difficultés, en réduisant le nombre d’employés opérant dans le camp.
Alleged victims: 700
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10 Feb 2022
    26 Jan 2021
    Bangladesh
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Azerbaijan
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Austria
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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15 Mar 2021 (Ack.)
26 Apr 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Algeria
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une opération d'enregistrement et de vérification dans les camps d'Al-Hol et de Roj situés dans le nord-est de la Syrie où vos ressortissants, principalement des femmes et des enfants, sont actuellement privés de liberté. Dans ces camps de fortune fermés, constitués de structures vétustes qui s'effondrent sous l'effet de vents violents ou qui sont inondées par la pluie ou les eaux usées, les conditions sanitaires sont déplorables: l'eau potable est souvent contaminée, les latrines débordent, des monticules d'ordures jonchent le sol, et les maladies, y compris les infections virales, y sévissent. La nourriture, l'eau, les soins de santé et les produits non alimentaires essentiels sont fournis par des groupes et des organisations humanitaires aux ressources insuffisantes. Selon le Croissant rouge kurde, au moins 517 personnes, dont 371 enfants, seraient mortes en 2019, dont beaucoup de maladies évitables, rien que dans le camp d'Al-Hol. En août 2020, selon UNICEF, huit enfants de moins de cinq ans sont morts dans ce camp en moins d'une semaine, dont quatre à cause de complications liées à la malnutrition et les autres à cause d'une déshydratation due à la diarrhée, à une insuffisance cardiaque, à une hémorragie interne et à une hypoglycémie. Le Covid-19 a accru ces difficultés, en réduisant le nombre d’employés opérant dans le camp.
Alleged victims: 700
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28 Jan 2021 (Ack.)
19 Mar 2021
    26 Jan 2021
    Albania
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    26 Jan 2021
    Afghanistan
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    25 Jan 2021
    South Africa
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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04 Mar 2021 (Ack.)
14 Apr 2021
    25 Jan 2021
    Russian Federation
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    25 Jan 2021
    India
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    25 Jan 2021
    Denmark
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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31 Mar 2021
    25 Jan 2021
    China
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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    25 Jan 2021
    Australia
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
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
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23 Aug 2021
    13 Jan 2021
    Japan
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • internally displaced persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the management of contaminated water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) by the Government of Japan and TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Power) and the serious risks posed to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations, the grave consequences which nuclear contamination poses to the physical and mental health and wellbeing of affected populations, including children, recent developments concerning the lifting of a number of evacuation orders, resignation of highly contaminated areas as well as the lack of access to information, and lack of public consultation regarding data, envisaged solutions, past and future decisions affecting directly the wellbeing and human rights of concerned segments of the population.
Alleged victims: -
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11 Mar 2021
    23 Dec 2020
    Mexico
    JAL
  • migrants
  • arbitrary Detention
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida en relación con la situación de los migrantes y solicitantes de asilo que se encuentran detenidos en estaciones migratorias en México.
Alleged victims: 3080
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12 Feb 2021 (Ack.)
    23 Dec 2020
    ING Holdings
    JAL
  • housing
  • business
  • Cambodia
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
Information received regarding an urban development project carried out by ING Holdings that involves the reclassification and in-filling of the Tompoun/Cheung Ek wetlands, which are used for housing, fishing and farming by at least 1,000 families, in southern Phnom Penh, Khans Mean Chey and Dangkao, and Kandal province, near Ta Khmao city, without consultation with the affected families. Allegedly, not only does the project threaten the livelihoods and homes of these families, but it will also cause irreparable damage to the wetlands ecosystem, place more than a million people at increased risk of flooding and pollute the Mekong and Bassac rivers with untreated sewage and harmful pollutants posing serious risks for the communities living along the rivers and relying on them as a source of income and food.
Alleged victims: 1000
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    23 Dec 2020
    Cambodia
    JAL
  • housing
  • business
  • Cambodia
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
Information received concerning an urban development project involving the reclassification and in-filling of the Tompoun Cheung Ek wetlands, which are used for housing, fishing and farming by at least 1,000 families, in southern Phnom Penh, Khans Mean Chey and Dangkao, and Kandal province, near Ta Khmao city, without consultation with the affected families. Allegedly, not only does the project threaten the livelihoods and homes of these families, but it will also cause irreparable damage to the wetlands ecosystem, place more than a million people at increased risk of flooding and pollute the Mekong and Bassac rivers with untreated sewage and harmful pollutants posing serious risks for the communities living along the rivers and relying on them as a source of income and food.
Alleged victims: 1000
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17 Feb 2021
19 Feb 2021
    21 Dec 2020
    United States of America
    JAL
  • unilateral coercive measures
  • food
  • health
  • international solidarity
Information received concerning the negative impact on human rights of sanctions authorized by the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act of 2019 (“Caesar Act” – Public Law 116-92, Title LXXIV), signed into law on 20 December 2019, and Executive Order 13894, under which the first sanctions were imposed on 17 June 2020
Alleged victims: 17500657
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    18 Dec 2020
    Spain
    JUA
  • housing
  • disability
  • education
  • food
  • health
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida en relación con la situación de las personas residentes en el asentamiento informal “Cañada Real Galiana”, en particular de 1.812 niños y niñas, afectadas por cortes en el suministro de electricidad durante meses marcados por bajas temperaturas.
Alleged victims: 1812
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22 Apr 2021
03 Dec 2021
03 Dec 2021 (Annex)
    18 Dec 2020
    Egypt
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • food
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the serious human rights violations that women detainees face in Al-Qanater prison and the deplorable conditions of their detention, which could amount to gender-based discrimination and violence as well as torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatments.
Alleged victims: -
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    17 Dec 2020
    Colombia
    JUA
  • toxics and human rights
  • African Descent
  • environment
  • food
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
Preocupación relativa a la intención del Estado de Colombia de reactivar el Programa de Erradicación de Cultivos Ilícitos mediante aspersión aérea de herbicida glifosato (PECIG) y los riesgos relacionados para los derechos humanos y el medio ambiente. Estos hechos se estarían llevando a cabo en un contexto de violencia sistemática contra los pueblos indígenas y afrocolombianos y las personas defensoras de los derechos humanos que trabajan protegiendo el derecho a la salud y al medioambiente en el país.
Alleged victims: -
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23 Feb 2021
    14 Dec 2020
    Panama
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
Información recibida sobre el derrame de petróleo del granelero MV Wakashio frente a las costas de Mauricio a partir del 25 de julio de 2020 y sus consecuencias.
Alleged victims: 1000
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15 Feb 2021
    14 Dec 2020
    Nagashiki Shipping Co Ltd
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
Information received concerning the oil spill from the bulk carrier vessel MV Wakashio off the coast of Mauritius beginning on 25 July 2020 and its aftermath.
Alleged victims: 1000
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27 Feb 2021
    14 Dec 2020
    Mitsui OSK Lines
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
Information received concerning the oil spill from the bulk carrier vessel MV Wakashio off the coast of Mauritius beginning on 25 July 2020 and its aftermath.
Alleged victims: 1000
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24 Feb 2021
    14 Dec 2020
    Mauritius
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
Information received concerning the oil spill from the bulk carrier vessel MV Wakashio off the coast of Mauritius beginning on 25 July 2020 and its aftermath.
Alleged victims: 1000
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22 Feb 2021 (Ack.)
    14 Dec 2020
    Japan
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
Information received concerning the oil spill from the bulk carrier vessel MV Wakashio off the coast of Mauritius beginning on 25 July 2020 and its aftermath.
Alleged victims: 1000
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15 Feb 2021
    02 Oct 2020
    Türkiye
    JAL
  • water and sanitation
  • food
  • health
  • internally displaced persons
Information received regarding the deprivation of approximately 600,000 persons in northeast Syria including internally displaced persons from the safe access to water due to the repeated interruptions of the work of the Alouk water station, the primary source of water in the region.
Alleged victims: 600000
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03 Dec 2020
    02 Oct 2020
    Syrian Arab Republic
    JAL
  • food
  • health
  • internally displaced persons
  • water and sanitation
Information received regarding the deprivation of approximately 600,000 persons in northeast Syria including internally displaced persons from the safe access to water due to the repeated interruptions of the work of the Alouk water station, the primary source of water in the region.
Alleged victims: 600000
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10 Nov 2020
15 Dec 2020
    15 Sep 2020
    United States of America
    JAL
  • cultural rights
  • environment
  • food
  • housing
  • indigenous peoples
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the alleged failure of the United States of America to protect indigenous tribes who live along the coastal regions of Louisiana and Alaska from the impacts of natural hazards and the adverse effects of climate change, development projects and oil and gas exploration, affecting their rights to life, health, food, water, housing, a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment, self-determination, cultural and religious rights, and leading to the displacement of indigenous peoples from their traditional lands.
Alleged victims: -
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    09 Sep 2020
    Colombia
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • indigenous peoples
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida señalando que Colombia no ha tomado las medidas cautelares y correctivas suficientes para prevenir el impacto negativo en los derechos humanos de miembros del Resguardo Indígena Wayúu Provincial, ubicado en el municipio de Barrancas, La Guajira por los danos ambientales con afectos al aire y al agua causados por las actividades mineras de la mina El Cerrejón SA.
Alleged victims: 100
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06 Nov 2020 (Ack.)
04 Dec 2020
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
04 Dec 2020 (Annex)
    09 Sep 2020
    Cerrejon
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • indigenous peoples
  • poverty
  • toxics and human rights
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida señalando el impacto negativo en los derechos humanos de miembros del Resguardo Indígena wayúude Provincial, ubicado en el municipio de Barrancas, La Guajira por daños ambientales con efectos en el aire y el agua causados por las actividades mineras de su empresa, Cerrejón, propiedad de las empresas mineras BHP, Glencore y Anglo American. Asimismo, hemos recibido información que el gobierno de Colombia no ha tomado las medidas cautelares y correctivas suficientes para prevenir el mencionado impacto negativo.
Alleged victims: 100
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06 Nov 2020
    31 Aug 2020
    Lao People's Democratic Republic
    JAL
  • food
  • disappearances
  • environment
  • executions
  • health
  • housing
  • indigenous peoples
  • minority issues
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the alarming situation of the Hmong indigenous community located in the Phou Bia region (referred to as the “ChaoFa Hmong”), including the indiscriminate attacks against the community, enforced and involuntary disappearances, denying access to food and lacking health care and access to safe and drinking water.
Alleged victims: 4
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    31 Aug 2020
    India
    JOL
  • environment
  • business
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the draft notification “Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2020”, issued by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, which, if published, will supersede the Environment Impact Assessment notification dated the 14th September, 2006 and its subsequent amendments.
Alleged victims: -
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    24 Aug 2020
    Lebanon
    AL
  • food
Information received concerning the consequences of the explosion that took place in Beirut on 4 August 2020 on food security in Lebanon.
Alleged victims: -
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19 Oct 2020
    18 Aug 2020
    US International Development Finance Corporation
    JAL
  • water and sanitation
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
Information received regarding possible violations of the right to water in relation to the run-of-river hydropower plant in Alto Maipo, in Cordillera Province.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Aug 2020
    KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH
    JAL
  • water and sanitation
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
Information received regarding possible violations of the right to water in relation to the run-of-river hydropower plant in Alto Maipo, in Cordillera Province.
Alleged victims: -
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15 Oct 2020
    18 Aug 2020
    Itaú CorpBanca Head Office
    JAL
  • water and sanitation
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
Información recibida en relación a posibles violaciones del derecho al agua en relación con la central hidroeléctrica de pasada en Alto Maipo, en la provincia Cordillera.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Aug 2020
    International Finance Corporation
    JAL
  • water and sanitation
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
Information received regarding possible violations of the right to water in relation to the run-of-river hydropower plant in Alto Maipo, in Cordillera Province.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Aug 2020
    DNB ASA
    JAL
  • water and sanitation
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
Information received regarding possible violations of the right to water in relation to the run-of-river hydropower plant in Alto Maipo, in Cordillera Province.
Alleged victims: -
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14 Oct 2020
    18 Aug 2020
    Chile
    JAL
  • water and sanitation
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
Información recibida en relación a posibles violaciones del derecho al agua en relación con dos proyectos económicos de desarrollo: la central hidroeléctrica de pasada en Alto Maipo, en la provincia Cordillera, y el monocultivo de palto (aguacate) en la provincia de Petorca.
Alleged victims: -
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16 Oct 2020
16 Oct 2020 (Annex)
16 Oct 2020 (Annex)
16 Oct 2020 (Annex)
    18 Aug 2020
    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID)
    JAL
  • water and sanitation
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
Información recibida en relación a posibles violaciones del derecho al agua en relación con la central hidroeléctrica de pasada en Alto Maipo, en la provincia Cordillera.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Aug 2020
    Banco de Crédito e Inversiones de Chile
    JAL
  • water and sanitation
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
Información recibida en relación a posibles violaciones del derecho al agua en relación con la central hidroeléctrica de pasada en Alto Maipo, en la provincia Cordillera.
Alleged victims: -
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    17 Aug 2020
    Iraq
    JUA
  • torture
  • executions
  • food
  • terrorism
Information received concerning twenty Iraqi nationals, who are currently detained in the Nasiriyah central prison, and allegedly subjected to torture and ill-treatment and facing the death penalty following flawed judicial proceedings under the counter-terrorism law no. 13 of 2005 (Anti-terrorism law).
Alleged victims: 20
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30 Dec 2020
    05 Aug 2020
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JAL
  • poverty
  • food
Information concerning the deepening level of food insecurity among low-income households, particularly families with children, and the lack of comprehensive measures to ensure their access to adequate food.
Alleged victims: 6600000
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10 Mar 2021
    20 Jul 2020
    Papua New Guinea
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Information received regarding serious risks posed to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations, in the context of risk of failure of a proposed tailings dam, and other issues arising from the hydroelectric/tailings dam, mine, waste discharge and associated infrastructure on the proposed Frieda River gold and copper mine and associated tailings dam (“Sepik Development Project”) in Papua New Guinea.
Alleged victims: 430000
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    20 Jul 2020
    Highlands Frieda Limited
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Information received regarding serious risks posed to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations, in the context of risk of failure of a proposed tailings dam, and other issues arising from the hydroelectric/tailings dam, mine, waste discharge and associated infrastructure on the proposed Frieda River gold and copper mine and associated tailings dam (“Sepik Development Project”) in Papua New Guinea.
Alleged victims: 430000
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    20 Jul 2020
    Frieda River Limited
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Information received regarding serious risks posed to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations, in the context of risk of failure of a proposed tailings dam, and other issues arising from the hydroelectric/tailings dam, mine, waste discharge and associated infrastructure on the proposed Frieda River gold and copper mine and associated tailings dam (“Sepik Development Project”) in Papua New Guinea.
Alleged victims: 430000
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    20 Jul 2020
    China
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Information received regarding serious risks posed to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations, in the context of risk of failure of a proposed tailings dam, and other issues arising from the hydroelectric/tailings dam, mine, waste discharge and associated infrastructure on the proposed Frieda River gold and copper mine and associated tailings dam (“Sepik Development Project”) in Papua New Guinea.
Alleged victims: 430000
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23 Oct 2020
23 Oct 2020 (Annex)
    20 Jul 2020
    Canada
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Information received serious risks posed to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations, in the context of risk of failure of a proposed tailings dam, and other issues arising from the hydroelectric/tailings dam, mine, waste discharge and associated infrastructure on the proposed Frieda River gold and copper mine and associated tailings dam (“Sepik Development Project”) in Papua New Guinea.
Alleged victims: 430000
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17 Sep 2020
    20 Jul 2020
    Australia
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • development
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Information received regarding serious risks posed to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations, in the context of risk of failure of a proposed tailings dam, and other issues arising from the hydroelectric/tailings dam, mine, waste discharge and associated infrastructure on the proposed Frieda River gold and copper mine and associated tailings dam (“Sepik Development Project”) in Papua New Guinea.
Alleged victims: 430000
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16 Sep 2020
    15 Jul 2020
    United States of America
    JUA
  • torture
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • food
  • terrorism
Information received concerning allegations of twenty former Guantánamo detainees, who have been resettled in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Alleged victims: 2
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19 Jan 2021
    15 Jul 2020
    United Arab Emirates
    JUA
  • torture
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • food
  • terrorism
Information received concerning allegations of twenty former Guantánamo detainees, who have been resettled in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Alleged victims: 2
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    23 Jun 2020
    Plus Berries y Agrícola El Bosque SL
    JAL
  • poverty
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • migrants
  • slavery
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida en relación con la situación actual y cada vez más alarmante de las violaciones sistemáticas de los derechos humanos que sufren los trabajadores migrantes temporales, y en particular las mujeres temporeras, empleados para ayudar durante la temporada de cosecha en las explotaciones agrícolas de fresas en la provincia de Huelva, en el sur de España.
Alleged victims: 3000
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30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020
    23 Jun 2020
    Morocco
    JAL
  • poverty
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • migrants
  • slavery
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
Informations reçues concernant des violations alléguées des droits de l'homme dont sont victimes les travailleurs saisonniers migrants, et en particulier les femmes travailleuses migrantes, employés pour contribuer aux récoltes dans les exploitations de fraises de la province de Huelva, dans le sud de l'Espagne.
Alleged victims: 3000
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26 Oct 2020
    23 Jun 2020
    Angus Soft Fruits LTD
    JAL
  • poverty
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • migrants
  • slavery
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
Information received regarding the alleged human rights violations suffered by temporary migrant workers, and in particular women seasonal migrant workers from Morocco, employed to help during the harvest season in strawberry farms in the province of Huelva, in southern Spain.
Alleged victims: 3000
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06 Aug 2020
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
06 Aug 2020 (Annex)
19 Aug 2020
30 Dec 2020
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
30 Dec 2020 (Annex)
    22 Jun 2020
    Spain
    JAL
  • poverty
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • migrants
  • slavery
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida en relación con la situación actual y cada vez más alarmante de las violaciones sistemáticas de los derechos humanos que sufren los trabajadores migrantes temporales, y en particular las mujeres temporeras, empleados para ayudar durante la temporada de cosecha en las explotaciones agrícolas de fresas en la provincia de Huelva, en el sur de España.
Alleged victims: 3000
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26 Jun 2020 (Ack.)
20 Aug 2020
    09 Jun 2020
    Philippines
    JAL
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disability
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • poverty
Information received concerning the alleged use of lethal force by the police in the enforcement of the Enhanced Community Quarantine that was imposed across the Philippines in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alleged victims: -
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    28 May 2020
    India
    JAL
  • poverty
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • minority issues
Information received concerning the humanitarian crisis of approximately 100 million internal migrant workers in India amid the COVID-19 pandemic, who are at risk of dying due to starvation, fatigue, rail and road accidents, in addition to lacking transport options, access to food, shelter, water and sanitation and social safety, while facing police brutality in the process of searching for food or travelling large distances from cities back to their villages.
Alleged victims: 100000000
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26 Jun 2020
    20 May 2020
    Kenya
    JUA
  • human rights defenders
  • disappearances
  • food
  • housing
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
In this connection, we would like to bring to the attention of your Excellency’s Government information we have received concerning the allegations of the forced eviction of over 7,000 residents of Kariobangi, Nairobi, during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to use the land for a development project, and the serious threats made against woman human rights defender Ms. Ruth Mumbi, who may be at risk of enforced disappearance for defending the right to housing of the evicted individuals.
Alleged victims: 1
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    12 May 2020
    Canada
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • migrants
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the need to protect the right to life of a Canadian orphan, currently detained in Al-Hol camp in the North-East region of the Syrian Arab Republic since March 2019.
Alleged victims: 1
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16 May 2020 (Ack.)
20 May 2020 (Ack.)
10 Jul 2020
    20 Apr 2020
    Japan
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • indigenous peoples
Information received relating to serious risks posed to the enjoyment of human rights of affected populations, in the context of contaminated water management at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (NPS) by the Government of Japan and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the significant delays occurred in the clean-up of the contaminated water and the reported likelihood of discharging contaminated water into ocean waters.
Alleged victims: -
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12 Jun 2020
    04 Oct 2019
    Saudi Arabia
    JAL
  • food
  • health
  • international order
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the negative impact of international military intervention on the enjoyment of human rights in Yemen, including impacts on the rights to self-determination, food, health, water and sanitation.
Alleged victims: -
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11 Dec 2019
    26 Aug 2019
    United States of America
    JAL
  • food
  • unilateral coercive measures
Information received concerning the possible severe impact of the unilateral economic measures that your Excellency’s Government imposed on Cuba on 17 April 2019, on the right to food and to an adequate standard of living of the citizens of Cuba.
Alleged victims: -
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    22 Jul 2019
    Guatemala
    JAL
  • education
  • food
  • housing
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida proveniente de diferentes actores nacionales sobre los impactos negativos que han tenido una serie de desalojos forzosos ejecutados desde 2017 a la fecha, en varios derechos humanos entre ellos el derecho a vivienda, alimentación, agua, saneamiento, educación, de las personas que viven en el área rural y que pertenecen a pueblos indígenas y a comunidades campesinas.
Alleged victims: -
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    07 Jun 2019
    Brazil
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • leprosy
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
Information received concerning the presidential Decree n. 9759/2019 of 11 April 2019, which according to its title “extinguishes and establishes guidelines, rules and limitations” for the administration of federal public collegiate bodies, through a number of provisions reversing the mechanisms necessary for the exercise of fundamental freedoms and the participation of civil society actors in public affairs.
Alleged victims: -
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14 Aug 2019
    29 May 2019
    Cameroon
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • business
  • environment
  • executions
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
Informations reçues concernant des allégations d’expulsion illégale du Cameroun de M. Jan Joris Cappelle. Nous avons également reçu des allégations de menaces de mort à l’encontre de M. Prince Vincent Awazi et des menaces de mort et d’enlèvement à l’encontre de M. Elvis Brown. Les membres de l’organisation « Organic Farming for Gorillas Cameroon » (OFFGO) seraient en outre victimes d’une campagne de diffamation. Ces allégations semblent être en lien avec leurs activités de dénonciation de violations des droits de l’homme perpétuées par l’entreprise de M. Alhadi Baba Ahmadouo Danpullo.
Alleged victims: 5
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29 Jul 2019
    29 May 2019
    Baba Ahmadou Group
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • business
  • environment
  • executions
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
Informations reçues concernant des allégations d’expulsion illégale du Cameroun de M. Jan Joris Cappelle. Nous avons également reçu des allégations de menaces de mort à l’encontre de M. Prince Vincent Awazi et de menaces de mort et d’enlèvement à l’encontre de M. Elvis Brown et son petit frère. Les membres de l’organisation OFFGO seraient en outre victimes d’une campagne de diffamation. Ces allégations semblent être en lien avec leurs activités de dénonciation de violations des droits de l’Homme perpétuées par l’entreprise de M. Alhadi Baba Ahmadouo Danpullo.
Alleged victims: 5
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    27 May 2019
    India
    JAL
  • environment
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning recent reports of the impact of work on Northeastern Frontier Railway on the water supply of several villages in the state of Manipur, India.
Alleged victims: -
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    03 Apr 2019
    Japan
    JAL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • education
  • environment
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • slavery
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the situation of workers and families living on farms in the abaca plantations of the Japanese company Furukawa Plantaciones C.A. in Ecuador.
Alleged victims: 200
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13 Jun 2019
    03 Apr 2019
    Furukawa Plantaciones C. A.
    JAL
  • slavery
  • African Descent
  • business
  • education
  • environment
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida en relación con la situación de los trabajadores y las familias que viven en haciendas en las plantaciones de abacá de la empresa japonesa Furukawa Plantaciones C. A. del Ecuador.
Alleged victims: 200
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31 May 2019
    03 Apr 2019
    Ecuador
    JAL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • education
  • environment
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • slavery
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida en relación con la situación de las personas trabajadoras y familias que viven en haciendas en las plantaciones de abacá de la empresa japonesa Furukawa Plantaciones C. A. del Ecuador.
Alleged victims: 200
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02 Jun 2019
    22 Mar 2019
    Guatemala
    JAL
  • food
  • housing
  • international solidarity
  • migrants
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • trafficking in persons
Información recibida en relación con la situación de las personas migrantes en caravana, en dirección a México y a los Estados Unidos de América, y en particular con referencia a un incidente violento y xenófobo contra personas migrantes en Tecún Umán, así como la necesidad de que el gobierno tome medidas activas para proteger los derechos humanos de todos los migrantes.
Alleged victims: 15552
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28 May 2019
    24 Feb 2019
    Brazil
    JOL
  • environment
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the closure of the National Council of Food and Nutrition Security (CONSEA), which could have a severe negative impact on the realization of the rights to food and water in the country, and in particular for persons living in poverty and indigenous peoples.
Alleged victims: -
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27 Feb 2019
    13 Feb 2019
    Philippines
    JAL
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • housing
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the failure of the Government of the Philippines to protect the human rights of the indigenous peoples and local communities living near Dipidio, Nueva Vizcaya Province, and the overall environmental degradation in this region, which are resulting from the exploitation of a gold and copper mine by OceanaGold Corporation, an Australia-based mining company.
Alleged victims: -
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15 Feb 2019 (Ack.)
    13 Feb 2019
    OceanaGold Corporation
    JAL
  • environment
  • business
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • housing
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the adverse human rights impacts that your company has contributed to in Didipio, Nueva Vizcava Province, in the Philippines, including with regard to the human rights of indigenous peoples residing in the region and the overall environmental degradation.
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    13 Feb 2019
    Benin
    OL
  • food
Projet de loi sur la protection des variétés végétales et les droits des agriculteurs soumis au Parlement en janvier 2019 pour adoption, qui porte sur l’adhésion à la Convention internationale pour la protection des obtentions végétales de 1991.
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    13 Feb 2019
    Australia
    JAL
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • housing
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the failure of the Government of the Philippines to protect the human rights of the indigenous peoples and local communities living near Dipidio, Nueva Vizcaya Province
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04 Apr 2019
    06 Feb 2019
    Indonesia
    JAL
  • business
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • human rights defenders
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the alleged failure to protect against human rights abuses linked to coal mining operations in East Kalimantan Province, including violations of rights to life, to water and sanitation, to food, and to a clean and safe environment. We would also like to bring your attention information concerning alleged harassment and attacks against JATAM (Mining Advocacy Network), an environmental non-governmental organisation, for denouncing this situation.
Alleged victims: 31
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01 Nov 2019
    21 Jan 2019
    Myanmar
    JOL
  • food
  • housing
  • indigenous peoples
  • internally displaced persons
  • minority issues
  • Myanmar
  • poverty
In this connection, we would like to bring to the attention of your Excellency’s Government information we have received concerning the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law 2012 as amended by the Law Amending the Vacant, Fallow and Virgin Lands Management Law 2018 (Law).
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    13 Dec 2018
    Philippines
    JAL
  • executions
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • violence against women
Information received concerning the alleged extrajudicial or arbitrary killing of thirty-two individuals (twenty six-men, five women and one child) in the context of intensifying counter-insurgency operations carried out by members of the Armed Forces, paramilitaries or individuals linked to them. The victims are members of farmers’ organizations, indigenous persons advocating for access to, and protection of, their ancestral lands and their family members.
Alleged victims: 32
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14 Dec 2018 (Ack.)
    07 Dec 2018
    Philippines
    JUA
  • executions
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • independence of judges and lawyers
Information received concerning the alleged extrajudicial or arbitrary killing of Mr. Benjamin Ramos Jr., a human rights lawyer. We also received reports of death threats against Mr. Felipe Levy Gelle Jr., Ms. Enrita Caniendo and Ms. Clarizza Singson-Dagatan, human rights defenders working with Mr. Ramos.
Alleged victims: 4
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10 Dec 2018 (Ack.)
    12 Oct 2018
    United States of America
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • business
  • disability
  • food
  • health
  • mercenaries
  • migrants
  • racism
  • religion or belief
  • slavery
  • torture
Information received concerning the increased use of immigration detention and the human rights violations committed at the Stewart Immigration Detention Center and the Irwin County Immigration Detention Center, which are privately run by for-profit prison companies “CoreCivic Inc.” and “LaSalle Southwest Corrections”, respectively.
Alleged victims: 3
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    12 Oct 2018
    LaSalle Corrections
    JAL
  • mercenaries
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • migrants
  • racism
  • religion or belief
  • slavery
  • torture
Information received concerning human rights violations committed at the Irwin Immigration Detention Center, including the lack of provision of adequate food and water, lack of adequate health care, racial and religious discrimination, solitary confinement as a form of punishment, which may be amounting to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, violations of due process guarantees and violations of the right to maintain a family life.
Alleged victims: 3
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    12 Oct 2018
    CoreCivic Inc.
    JAL
  • mercenaries
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • migrants
  • racism
  • religion or belief
  • slavery
  • torture
Information received concerning human rights violations committed at the Stewart Immigration Detention Center, including the lack of provision of adequate food and water, the lack of adequate health care, racial and religious discrimination, forced labor, solitary confinement as a form of punishment, which may be amounting to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, violations of the right to life, of due process guarantees and of the right to maintain a family life.
Alleged victims: 3
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    13 Jun 2018
    Brazil
    JOL
  • environment
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning the Project of Law (PL), 6.299/2002 which amends Law No. 7.802 of 11 July 1989, which deals with the research, experimentation, production, packaging and labeling, transportation, storage, commercialization, commercial advertisement, use, import, export, final destination of wastes as well as packaging, registration, classification, control, inspection and inspection of pesticides. The referred amendments would significantly weaken the criteria for approving the experimental and commercial use of pesticides, posing threats to a number of human rights.
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28 Aug 2018
    30 May 2018
    United States of America
    JAL
  • business
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • toxics and human rights
  • slavery
Information received concerning the alleged unsafe working conditions at Catcher Technology’s factory in Suqian, northern Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China, and the implications for the human rights of the affected workers.
Alleged victims: -
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    30 May 2018
    China
    JAL
  • business
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • toxics and human rights
  • slavery
Information received concerning the alleged unsafe working conditions at Catcher Technology’s factory in Suqian, northern Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China, and the implications for the human rights of the affected workers.
Alleged victims: -
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19 Jul 2018
    30 May 2018
    Catcher Technology Co. Limited
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • slavery
Information received concerning the alleged unsafe working conditions at Catcher Technology’s factory in Suqian, northern Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China, and the implications for the human rights of the affected workers.
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    30 May 2018
    Apple Inc.
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • slavery
Information received concerning the alleged unsafe working conditions at Catcher Technology’s factory in Suqian, northern Jiangsu Province, People's Republic of China, and the implications for the human rights of the affected workers.
Alleged victims: -
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08 Jun 2018
    29 May 2018
    United States of America
    JAL
  • environment
  • food
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • toxics and human rights
Information received concerning exposure of the local community on the island of Vieques, a municipality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to toxic chemicals resulting from military activities of the U.S. Navy, and subsequent cleanup efforts.
Alleged victims: -
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    22 May 2018
    Zimbabwe
    JAL
  • business
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • food
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while engaging in tobacco farming in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
Alleged victims: -
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20 Jul 2018 (Ack.)
07 Nov 2018
    22 May 2018
    Universal Corporation
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland, and the alleged responsibility of your company as one involved in tobacco farming in Zimbabwe.
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22 Jul 2018
    22 May 2018
    United States of America
    JAL
  • business
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • food
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
Alleged victims: -
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    22 May 2018
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JAL
  • business
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • food
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
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24 Jul 2018
    22 May 2018
    United Arab Emirates
    JAL
  • business
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • food
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
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    22 May 2018
    Switzerland
    JAL
  • business
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • food
  • slavery
Informations reçues concernant des allégations de violations des droits de l'homme résultant de l'exposition des travailleurs y compris les enfants, à des produits chimiques toxiques en travaillant dans les plantations de tabac au Zimbabwe, plus précisément dans la région de Mashonaland Ouest, du Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, et du Manicaland.
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    22 May 2018
    Premium Tobacco International DMCC
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland, and the alleged responsibility of your company as one involved in tobacco farming in Zimbabwe
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09 Jul 2018
    22 May 2018
    Northern Tobacco (Private) Limited
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland, and the alleged responsibility of your company as one involved in tobacco farming in Zimbabwe.
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09 Jul 2018
    22 May 2018
    Japan Tobacco Inc.
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland, and the alleged responsibility of your company as one involved in tobacco farming in Zimbabwe
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19 Jul 2018
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30 Jul 2019
    22 May 2018
    Japan
    JAL
  • business
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • food
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
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20 Jul 2018
    22 May 2018
    Imperial Brands PLC
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
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29 Jun 2018
    22 May 2018
    Germany
    JAL
  • business
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • food
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
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20 Jul 2018
    22 May 2018
    Contraf Nicotex Tobacco GmbH (CNT)
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
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    22 May 2018
    China National Tobacco Corporation
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland, and the alleged responsibility of your company as one involved in tobacco farming in Zimbabwe.
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    22 May 2018
    China
    JAL
  • business
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • food
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
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19 Jul 2018
    22 May 2018
    Chidziva Tobbaco Processors (Private) Limited
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
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    22 May 2018
    British American Tobacco P.L.C.
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
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    22 May 2018
    Alliance One International, Inc.
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
  • slavery
Information received concerning alleged human rights violations resulting from exposure of workers including children, to toxic chemicals while working in tobacco farms in Zimbabwe, specifically in Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, Mashonaland East, and Manicaland.
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24 Jul 2018
    18 May 2018
    Brazil
    JOL
  • education
  • food
  • foreign debt
  • housing
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information received concerning the negative impacts of budget cuts, structural adjustment and austerity measures implemented since 2014, on several human rights, notably the rights to health, education, social security, food, as well as on gender equality, and in particular the negative impacts linked to the Constitutional Amendment No 95, also known as “Expenditure Ceiling”, in force for over 16 months.
Alleged victims: -
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01 Aug 2018
    06 Apr 2018
    Groupe Lactalis
    JAL
  • toxics and human rights
  • business
  • food
  • health
Informations reçues concernant les rapports récents relatifs à une survenue de cas de salmonellose chez des nourrissons, liée à la contamination par la Salmonella Agona de produits pour nourrissons fabriqués par Lactalis Nutrition Santé, une division du Groupe Lactalis spécialisée dans les produits de nutrition infantile, clinique et sport, basé en France.
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    06 Apr 2018
    France
    JAL
  • business
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
Informations reçues concernant les rapports récents relatifs à la survenue de cas de salmonellose chez des nourrissons, liée à la contamination par Salmonella Agona de produits pour nourrissons fabriqués par Lactalis Nutrition Santé, une division du Groupe Lactalis spécialisée dans les produits de nutrition infantile, clinique et sport, basé en France.
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    30 Jan 2018
    India
    JAL
  • business
  • food
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
Information received alleging the construction of a boundary wall around the lands of 22,000 people, including Adivasi communities, living in Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha, after the South Korean company POSCO withdrew its plan to establish an integrated steel plant and a captive port in this area. This boundary wall would reportedly deny people access to their land, resulting in forced evictions and the destruction of their livelihoods and has been initiated without good faith consultations nor the consent of the affected communities.
Alleged victims: 20006
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    23 Jan 2018
    Libya
    JAL
  • food
  • health
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning negative impact on living conditions of the population in the City of Derna including their access to safe drinking water, sanitation, food as well as medical services and supplies following the siege of the city since 2014.
Alleged victims: -
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    12 Jan 2018
    Haiti
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • torture
  • water and sanitation
Informations reçues concernant la situation des droits de l’homme et les conditions de détention à la prison civile de Port-au-Prince (Pénitencier national), Haïti.
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31 Jan 2018 (Ack.)
    11 Dec 2017
    Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida en relación con el sistemático deterioro de las condiciones de vida y el aumento de la pobreza y la extrema pobreza, en particular en relación con la protección y el ejercicio por parte de la población venezolana de los derechos humanos a una vivienda adecuada, a la alimentación y a la salud.
Alleged victims: -
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11 Jan 2018
    26 Oct 2017
    Délégation Permanente de l’Union Européenne
    JOL
  • women in law and in practice
  • cultural rights
  • food
  • housing
Informations reçues concernant des mesures discriminatoires dont auraient été victimes des femmes rurales Abbeys dans deux villages du sud de la Côte d'Ivoire (Offa et Gouabo) relativement à leur droit à la propriété de la terre dans le cadre d’un projet financé par l’Union Européenne.
Alleged victims: 1
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    26 Oct 2017
    Côte d'Ivoire
    JAL
  • cultural rights
  • food
  • housing
  • women in law and in practice
Informations reçues concernant des mesures discriminatoires dont auraient été victimes des femmes rurales Abbeys dans deux villages du sud de la Côte d'Ivoire (Offa et Gouabo) relativement à leur droit à la propriété de la terre dans le cadre d’un projet financé par l’Union Européenne.
Alleged victims: 1
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03 Jan 2018
    23 Aug 2017
    Myanmar
    JUA
  • Myanmar
  • food
  • poverty
  • minority issues
  • water and sanitation
Information received concerning deteriorating food security situation.
Alleged victims: -
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11 Jan 2018
    01 May 2017
    Myanmar
    JAL
  • food
  • health
  • internally displaced persons
  • minority issues
  • Myanmar
Information received concerning the humanitarian situation in Kachin State.
Alleged victims: -
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13 Jul 2017
    11 Apr 2017
    Saudi Arabia
    JAL
  • food
  • international order
  • unilateral coercive measures
Information received concerning the negative impact on the enjoyment of human rights of the people in Yemen due to the ongoing blockade of aircraft and vessels carrying essential goods to Yemeni ports, including basic food items, fuel and essential medicines.
Alleged victims: -
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15 Jun 2017 (Ack.)
    16 Mar 2017
    Haiti
    JAL
  • executions
  • food
  • health
  • torture
  • Haiti
Informations reçues concernant le décès en détention de plusieurs détenus, notamment en raison du manque d'accès à la nourriture et aux soins de santé appropriés.
Alleged victims: 113
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    01 Mar 2017
    Yemen
    JAL
  • food
  • health
Information received concerning the rights to food and to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health and wellbeing of the population of the Republic of Yemen. We have grave concerns regarding access to healthcare, as well as widespread malnutrition, starvation and spread of infectious diseases, particularly amongst children, pregnant women and the growing number of internally displaced persons.
Alleged victims: -
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01 May 2017
    09 Jan 2017
    Myanmar
    JUA
  • food
  • health
  • housing
  • internally displaced persons
  • minority issues
  • water and sanitation
  • Myanmar
Information received concerning the deteriorating humanitarian situation in northern Rakhine State.
Alleged victims: -
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    22 Dec 2016
    Colombia
    JAL
  • food
  • indigenous peoples
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
  • health
Información recibida señalando que Colombia ha fallado en tomar medidas cautelares y correctivas suficientes para prevenir los impactos en los derechos humanos de la población Wayúu, en el departamento de La Guajira, causados por la desecación del río Ranchería tras la construcción de la represa El Cercado
Alleged victims: 10000
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27 Feb 2017
    29 Sep 2016
    United States of America
    JAL
  • food
  • foreign debt
  • health
  • housing
Information received concerning Puerto Rico’s crippling public debt level, which reportedly endangers the ability of many of its 3.5 million inhabitants to fully enjoy economic and social rights
Alleged victims: -
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19 Oct 2016 (Ack.)
    16 Sep 2016
    Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
    JAL
  • food
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
Información recibida respecto a violencia sexual y condiciones de detención que constituyen tratos crueles, inhumanos y degradantes contra mujeres privadas de libertad y niños y niñas que las acompañan en el Instituto Nacional de Orientación Femenina - Cárcel de Mujeres de Los Teques.
Alleged victims: 627
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14 Dec 2016
    24 May 2016
    Philippines
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • indigenous peoples
  • executions
  • torture
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Allegations of excessive use of force, arbitrary arrest and detention of farmers and their supporters who were calling for food assistance. According to the information received, on 1 April 2016 police forces in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato, violently dispersed farmers and their supporters who demanded food assistance, in the context of a severe drought attributed to the El Niño phenomenon. It is alleged that two individuals died as a result of gunshot wounds. There are reports of excessive use of force and arbitrary arrests and detentions by the police. It is further alleged that the Government failed to ensure a comprehensive and equitable famine relief response in view of the ongoing dry spell, which is particularly affecting landless and marginal farmers, tenants and farm workers, many of whom belong to the indigenous Lumad peoples.
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    09 May 2016
    Spain
    JAL
  • education
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • minority issues
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Presuntas violaciones de los derechos humanos a la vivienda, al agua y al saneamiento, a la salud, a la educación y a la alimentación de miembros de una comunidad romaní. Según la información recibida, desde 2005, unas 435 personas, habitantes de un asentamiento informal conocido como “El Gallinero” en Madrid, viven en condiciones precarias y de insalubridad. Las viviendas tendrían un acceso limitado a la electricidad y al agua potable; y carecerían de servicios de saneamiento y de recolección de basura adecuados. Los riesgos graves de salud y contaminación ambiental podrían ser la causa de varios casos de diarreas y deshidratación en niños pequeños. Debido a razones administrativas relacionadas con el empadronamiento o la situación irregular de las familias, los habitantes también tendrían un acceso limitado a medicamentos o servicios de salud, a servicios educativos y a ayudas económicas para la alimentación.
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19 Jul 2016
    22 Apr 2016
    Indonesia
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • food
  • health
Alleged preventable deaths of 51 children and three adults as a result of a Pertussis epidemic in Papua Province, Indonesia. According to the information received, between November 2015 and 5 January 2016, 51 children and three adults died of Pertussis in the Nduga Regency, a remote area in the highlands of Papua Province that is mainly inhabited by indigenous Papuans. The spread of the epidemic was reportedly facilitated by food and clean water shortages, chronic malnutrition and poor availability of and lack of access to adequate medical services. Information received indicated that preventive immunizations had not been provided to the indigenous Papuans. Both national and local government institutions reportedly failed to adequately prevent, treat and control the Pertussis epidemic. It is therefore alleged that the 54 deaths were preventable and the result of government neglect.
Alleged victims: 54
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    08 Apr 2016
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
  • poverty
  • disability
Alleged negative impact of the Welfare Reform and Work Act on the human rights of persons living in poverty, particularly children, large families, single parents and persons with disabilities. According to the information received, the Welfare Reform and Work Act, enacted in March 2016, introduces major cuts in social benefits, including, inter alia, a lower cap on the household benefit, a four-year freeze on working-age benefits and tax credits, restrictions on child tax credits and reduced support for persons with disabilities in the Work-Related Activity Group. Concerns are raised that these changes have been introduced without adequate assessments of their impact on the rights to social protection and an adequate standard of living, and may contribute to a rise in poverty and inequality.
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14 Jul 2016
    21 Mar 2016
    Cameroon
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • environment
  • business
Allégations de nombreuses procédures judiciaires et condamnations d’un défenseur des droits de l’homme qui pourraient constituer une forme de harcèlement judiciaire. Selon les informations reçues, M. Nasako Besingi, le directeur de l’organisation non-gouvernementale Struggle to Economise Future Environment (SEFE), aurait fait l’objet de harcèlement judiciaire de la part de la société SG Sustainable Oils Cameroon (SGSOC). Il aurait été condamné pour diffamation, participation à des rassemblements illégaux et organisation et incitation à des manifestations non-déclarées. M. Besingi a fait l’objet de deux lettres d’allégations précédentes, envoyées le 4 janvier 2013, voir A/HRC/23/51 cas numéro CMR 6/2012, et 21 février 2014, voir A/HRC/28/85, cas numéro CMR 1/2014.
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    29 Feb 2016
    Other actors
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • cultural rights
  • environment
  • business
Alleged human rights violations associated with the Don Sahong dam development project of the lower Mekong River in the territory of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 2 kilometres from the Laos-Cambodia border. According to the information received, the dam construction, operated by a Malaysian developer, Mega First, is likely to adversely affect approximately 29.7 million people residing both upstream and downstream from the Mekong dam in Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Despite the anticipated risks, it is alleged that the project is proceeding without adequate environmental and human rights impact assessment and in the absence of meaningful consultation with the concerned population while posing a considerable threat to the livelihoods of people living in the area, particularly in relation to their right to an adequate standard of living, including the rights to adequate food and housing, the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, cultural rights, the rights to information and participation, as well as the rights of indigenous peoples. Related communications were sent to the Governments of Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Malaysia on 16 and 29 February 2016, respectively, see above, case nos. LAO 1/2016 and MYS 1/2016, as well as to Mekong River Commission, see below, case no. OTH 13/2016.
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    29 Feb 2016
    Other actors
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • cultural rights
  • environment
  • business
Alleged human rights violations associated with the Don Sahong dam development project of the lower Mekong River in the territory of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 2 kilometres from the Laos-Cambodia border. According to the information received, the dam construction, operated by a Malaysian developer, Mega First, is likely to adversely affect approximately 29.7 million people residing both upstream and downstream from the Mekong dam in Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Despite the anticipated risks, it is alleged that the project is proceeding without adequate environmental and human rights impact assessment and in the absence of meaningful consultation with the concerned population while posing a considerable threat to the livelihoods of people living in the area, particularly in relation to their right to an adequate standard of living, including the rights to adequate food and housing, the right to the highest standard of physical and mental health, cultural rights, the rights to information and participation, as well as the rights of indigenous peoples. Related communications were sent to the Governments of Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Malaysia on 16 and 29 February 2016, respectively, see above, case nos. LAO 1/2016 and MYS 1/2016, as well as to Mega First Corporation Berhad, see above, case no. OTH 12/2016.
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09 May 2016
    29 Feb 2016
    Malaysia
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • cultural rights
  • environment
  • business
Alleged human rights violations associated with the Don Sahong dam development project of the lower Mekong River in the territory of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 2 kilometres from the Laos-Cambodia border. According to the information received, the dam construction, operated by a Malaysian developer, Mega First, is likely to adversely affect approximately 29.7 million people residing both upstream and downstream from the Mekong dam in Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Despite the anticipated risks, it is alleged that the project is proceeding without adequate environmental and human rights impact assessment and in the absence of meaningful consultation with the concerned population while posing a considerable threat to the livelihoods of people living in the area, particularly in relation to their right to an adequate standard of living, including the rights to adequate food and housing, the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, cultural rights, the rights to information and participation, as well as the rights of indigenous peoples. A related communication was sent to the Government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic on 16 February 2016, see above, case no. LAO 1/2016, as well as to Mega First Corporation Berhad and the Mekong River Commission on 29 February 2016, see below, case nos. OTH 12/2016 and 13/2016.
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    19 Feb 2016
    Guatemala
    JAL
  • food
  • poverty
Carta enviada a las autoridades de Guatemala con el fin de alentar a las nuevas autoridades cumplir con cuarto sentencias del Juzgado de Niñez y Adolescencia del Departamento de Zacapa del 2013, centrales al derecho a la alimentación en Guatemala. Se alienta concluir a la brevedad posible los avances en la elaboración y aprobación del Protocolo de actuación para el ejercicio del derecho humano a la alimentación, en el marco del cumplimiento de estas sentencias.
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10 May 2016
    16 Feb 2016
    Lao People's Democratic Republic
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • cultural rights
  • environment
  • business
Alleged human rights violations associated with the Don Sahong dam development project of the lower Mekong River in the territory of Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 2 kilometres from the Laos-Cambodia border. According to the information received, the dam construction, operated by a Malaysian developer, Mega First, is likely to adversely affect approximately 29.7 million people residing both upstream and downstream from the Mekong dam in Lao PDR, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam. Despite the anticipated risks, it is alleged that the project is proceeding without adequate environmental and human rights impact assessment and in the absence of meaningful consultations with the concerned population while posing a considerable threat to the livelihoods of people living in the area, particularly in relation to their right to an adequate standard of living, including the rights to adequate food and housing, the right to the highest standard of physical and mental health, cultural rights, the rights to information and participation, as well as the rights of indigenous peoples. A related communication was sent to the Government of Malaysia on 29 February 2016, see below, case no. MYS 1/2016, as well as to Mega First Corporation Berhad and the Mekong River Commission on 29 February 2016, see below, case nos. OTH 12/2016 and OTH 13/2016.
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10 May 2016
    15 Jan 2016
    Syrian Arab Republic
    UA
  • food
Allegations of starvation and situations of extreme malnutrition in besieged areas in Syria. According to the information received, approximately 400,000 people living in 15 besieged and hard-to-reach locations throughout Syria are trapped in desperate circumstances and in urgent need of emergency assistance. Heavily restricted access to essential supplies has resulted in besieged communities enduring immense suffering with allegations suggesting that in the town of Madaya alone 23 people, including children, starved to death since December 2015, while many others continue to suffer from acute malnutrition. Grave concern is expressed at the reported suffering of the afore-mentioned besieged populations, particularly at the reported cases of starvation and extreme malnutrition.
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18 Jan 2016
    15 Dec 2015
    India
    JUA
  • food
  • health
  • water and sanitation
  • unilateral coercive measures
Alleged blockage at the Nepal-India border of vessels carrying essential goods resulting in a lack of basic supplies and services, including food, fuel, water and sanitation, and medical supplies and services available to the people of Nepal. According to the information received, on 20 September 2015, Nepal promulgated a new constitution, the adoption of which eventually resulted in a blockage at the border with India. On 24 September 2015, vehicles carrying essential supplies were prevented from entering Nepal. A lack of medical supplies combined with water shortages have reportedly reduced the availability of certain medical procedures, while the shortage of other vital supplies such as food and fuel had a detrimental impact on the health of persons in situation of vulnerability, school closures, and deforestation for use as fuel. As a consequence of this blockage and due to Nepal’s heavy reliance on the border trade and transactions the country risks facing a humanitarian crisis.
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28 Dec 2015
    25 Nov 2015
    Guatemala
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
  • water and sanitation
  • environment
  • business
Presuntas violaciones de varios derechos humanos de al menos 12.000 personas que viven en 14 comunidades en el departamento de El Petén, Guatemala, debido a la contaminación del río La Pasión además de alegaciones de restricciones en el trabajo de defensores de derechos humanos denunciando esta situación. Según la información recibida, desde abril de 2015 se ha encontrado una gran cantidad de peces muertos flotando en el río. Se alega que la muerte de peces en el río La Pasión está relacionada con la presencia de altos niveles de un pesticida organofosforado llamado "malatión". La contaminación del río fue responsabilidad de REPSA, una empresa de aceite de palma que tiene una plantación y una planta de procesamiento ubicada cerca de los afluentes de dicho río. Se alega además que el río La Pasión es una fuente hídrica esencial para el sustento de aproximadamente 12.000 personas del municipio de Sayaxché. Igualmente, se ha constatado que miembros de las comunidades utilizan el agua del río para lavar ropa, pesca cocinar, beber, bañarse y para la agricultura de subsistencia.
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14 Mar 2016
    20 Jul 2015
    Argentina
    JAL
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Presunta violación de los derechos al agua y saneamiento y a la alimentación. Según la información recibida, los residentes del oeste del Estado de la Pampa aún padecen de la falta de agua potable. El Gobierno de Argentina habría recibido una carta de alegación a este respecto el 17 de abril de 2014, enviada por el Relator Especial sobre el derecho humano al agua potable y al saneamiento y la Relatora Especial sobre el derecho a la alimentación.
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    19 Feb 2015
    Thailand
    JUA
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • food
  • toxics and human rights
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • environment
  • business
Allegations of threats against, incommunicado detention, attempted killing and killings of several environmental and land rights defenders, as well as threats against community members. According to the information received, on 30 November 2014, Mr. Pitan Thongpanang, who had been leading a campaign against a mining company operating the Barite mine in Nonpitan District, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, was shot dead by an unknown armed man. On 3 December 2014, Mr. Somsuk Kohkrang, a land rights activist in Muang District, Krabi Province, was shot dead by an unknown armed man. On 29 December 2014, the house of Mr. Suwit Jeh-Soh, a community activist and school director in Mueng Ta Kau Village, Phattalung Province, was attacked by unknown armed individuals with multiple rounds of gunfire. On 3 February 2015, Mr. Pianrat Boonrit, a prominent land rights activist from the Premsub community in Chaiburi District, Surat Thani Province, while complying with a summons he had received to present himself at Vibhavadi Rangsit Military Camp, was detained and held incommunicado for two days. On 11 February 2015, Mr. Chai Bunthonglek, a community land rights activist from the Khlong Sai Pattana Community in Chaiburi District, Surat Thani Province, was shot dead by two unidentified armed men. Two previous communications concerning killings of environmental and land rights defenders were sent to the Government of Thailand; on 9 January 2013, see A/HRC/23/51, case no. THA 1/2013; and on 2 April 2013, see A/HRC/24/21, case no. THA 3/2013.
Alleged victims: 5
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24 Feb 2015
02 Apr 2015
21 May 2015
    12 Feb 2015
    Guatemala
    JUA
  • food
  • poverty
Alegaciones de reducción del salario mínimo que afectaría el derecho a un nivel de vida adecuado, incluyendo alimentación, vestido y vivienda, de trabajadores de manufactura. Según la información recibida, la aprobación de varios Acuerdos Gubernamentales (471 a 474/ 2014) por parte del Organismo Ejecutivo introducirían un nuevo nivel de salario mínimo para la industria de manufactura ligera, dedicada a productos de exportación en cuatro municipios: Estanzuela (Zacapa), Masagua (Escuintla) y San Agustín Acasaguastlán y Guastatoya (El Progreso). Dicho salario mínimo sólo cubriría el 46 por ciento de la canasta básica de alimentos (CBA) y el 25 por ciento de la canasta básica vital (CBV), respectivamente. Se expresa preocupación por el hecho de que dicho salario mínimo estaría muy por debajo del nivel de ingresos suficientes para cubrir los gastos básicos de vida, lo cual pudiera indicar una violación prima facie del derecho de toda persona a un nivel de vida adecuado para ella y su familia.
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13 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015
13 Mar 2015
    06 Nov 2014
    Democratic Republic of the Congo
    JAL
  • executions
  • torture
  • food
  • health
Allégations de violations de droit à la vie et à la santé. Selon les informations reçues, entre septembre 2013 et septembre 2014, 42 combattants démobilisés et au moins cinq femmes et 57 enfants sont décédés dans le camp de Kotakoli en République démocratique du Congo. Les victimes seraient d’anciens éléments du M23, des groupes Nyatura, de l’Alliance du peuple pour un Congo libre et souverain (APCLS) et d’autres groupes Maï-Maï, qui s’étaient préalablement rendus. De graves préoccupations sont exprimées quant aux allégations concernant les circonstances de la mort de ces combattants et des membres de leur famille ainsi que sur l’absence d’enquêtes pertinentes y relatives.
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    14 Oct 2014
    Israel
    JUA
  • Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
  • housing
  • food
  • minority issues
  • cultural rights
Alleged imminent risk of forced eviction and transfer of Palestinian Bedouin communities, acts prohibited under international human rights and humanitarian law. According to the information received, Palestinian Bedouin communities currently residing in the central West Bank, including the East Jerusalem periphery, are at imminent risk of forced eviction and transfer to three urbanized sites at Al Jabal, Nuweima and Fasayil in the Jerusalem and Jericho Governorates of the West Bank, as a result of steps being taken by the Government of Israel to relocate them. Between 5,000 and 11,000 individuals are considered to be at risk of relocation to these sites.
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    09 Sep 2014
    Georgia
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
  • minority issues
  • cultural rights
Alleged involuntary resettlement of an estimated 1,700 to 2,500 inhabitants of the upper Svaneti region, including a large number of individuals and families from the Svan minority ethnic subgroup. According to the information received, the Government of Georgia plans to resume the construction of the Khudoni hydropower plant in the Enguri River gorge on the territory of the Mestia municipality in upper Svaneti, four kilometres south of the village of Khaishi, Georgia. It is reported that the construction will flood at least 1,500 hectares of forest and agricultural land along with the village of Khaishi, which is the administrative centre of a number of villages in the area. Concern is expressed that the residents of the Upper Svaneti region will face violations of their right to an adequate standard of living, including food and housing, and their right to take part in cultural life as a result of the construction of Khudoni dam and their resettlement.
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16 Dec 2014
    18 Aug 2014
    Republic of Korea
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • violence against women
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • environment
  • older persons
Allegations of excessive use of force by Government employees, private security and police officers against environmental human rights defenders and communities affected, who were protesting against the construction of sixty-nine high-voltage (765kv) nuclear power transmission towers by the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) in five villages of Miryang, Gyeongsang-do Province. According to the information received, the protesters share a grave concern that these nuclear power towers will cause environmental destruction and damage to food crops, resulting in serious violations of human rights for the largely aging population, notably the right to an adequate standard of living, the right to food and the right to health. Reportedly, most residents are senior citizens in their seventies, who have been denied meaningful, participatory consultations with Government agencies or KEPCO since 2007. Reports indicate that peaceful protests have been violently suppressed since 2012. The most recent incident occurred on 11 June 2014 when around 2,000 police officers and 200 Miryang public officers were mobilized against approximately 100 senior residents conducting ‘sit-in’ protests at five construction sites, resulting in a series of human rights abuses, including personal injuries, the illegal arrest of protesters and the illegal collection of video footage.
Alleged victims: 1
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22 Oct 2014
    27 May 2014
    Republic of Korea
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
Follow-up letter concerning alleged forced eviction of residents living in Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha, India and surrounding areas. According to the information received, up to 20, 000 people may be forced to leave their homes as a result of land being acquired for the construction of an integrated steel plant and a captive port by Korean steel corporation, Pohang Iron and Steel Corporation (POSCO). Reports suggest that the construction of the steel plant will result in serious violations of the human rights of affected people, including the right to an adequate standard of living, right to food, right to adequate housing, right to water and sanitation, right to health, right to education, and other related rights of people living in extreme poverty. Reports further indicate that the rights of those opposing the project have been suppressed resulting in a series of human rights abuses.
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07 Aug 2014
    20 May 2014
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
  • poverty
Alleged violation of the human rights of persons living in poverty in the context of austerity measures. According to the information received, the Government has undertaken a combination of wide-ranging legal reforms and policy interventions designed to reduce public expenditure at the national and local level. A number of these measures were brought into effect through the Welfare Reform Act 2012. In January 2014, it was announced that austerity measures would continue between 2015 and 2017, with a further £12 billion to be cut from welfare expenditure. Concerns are expressed that these measures could severely undermine minimum essential levels of economic and social rights (in particular the right to an adequate standard of living, the right to adequate housing, the right to food, and the right to social security) in certain circumstances. The interventions amount to retrogressive measures prohibited under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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10 Jul 2014
    05 May 2014
    Pakistan
    JAL
  • food
  • health
  • minority issues
  • water and sanitation
Alleged death of at least 132 children in the Thar desert, Tharparkar district, Sindh province as a result of malnutrition. According to the information received, severe and chronic food and water shortages due to drought and extreme poverty are the principal causes of death. The majority of victims reportedly belong to the minority Dalit community. Reports suggest that the crisis has been exacerbated by insufficient investment in healthcare facilities with long standing vacancies in Government run hospitals and health centres, as well as a lack of female doctors, limiting the provision of adequate medical services. Undue delays on the part of the authorities to react to the crisis have reportedly resulted in the Sindh provincial Government being accused by the Supreme Court of failing to fully report the facts, highlighting its failure to distribute sixty thousand bags of wheat flour allocated to the region in December 2013.
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    05 May 2014
    Other actors
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • mercenaries
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • poverty
  • foreign debt
  • water and sanitation
  • international order
  • business
Letter related to the review of the Environmental and Social Policy and Public Information Policy of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The communication calls upon the EBRD to include more explicitly its commitment to human rights in its good governance policies, including by making reference to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and its due diligence framework. It urges the EBRD to clarify that it will refrain from financing projects that would result in human rights violations or have serious negative human rights impacts and provides suggestions as to how its draft policies could be improved.
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22 May 2014
    17 Apr 2014
    Argentina
    JAL
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Alegaciones sobre la falta de acceso a agua potable en las comunidades del oeste de la Pampa. Según la información recibida, se produce la desecación del río Atuel en el Estado de la Pampa con la creación de la represa Nihuil (1947) en el Estado de Mendoza. Desde entonces se llevaron a cabo distintas iniciativas para asegurar que el río Atuel satisfaga las demandas de riego de tierras cultivadas. Asimismo las fuentes informaron del incumplimiento por parte del Estado de Mendoza del acuerdo firmado entre ambos estados que permite a las comunidades de la Pampa disponer de agua potable para sus usos personales y domésticos, y para que puedan desarrollar actividades productivas.
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22 Oct 2015
    21 Feb 2014
    Cameroon
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • environment
Allégations d’attaques physiques, arrestations arbitraires et harcèlement judiciaire contre des membres de deux organisations non-gouvernementales (ONG): Struggle to Economise Future Environment (SEFE) et Nature Cameroon, ainsi que des interdictions arbitraires imposées aux membres de Nature Cameroon de se réunir et de participer à des réunions publiques non déclarées. Selon les informations reçues, le directeur de SEFE, M. Nasako Besingi, serait victime d’harcèlement judiciaire et aurait été récemment accusé d’avoir pris part à l’organisation et la conduite d’une réunion publique non déclarée. L’ONG Nature Cameroon quant à elle aurait vu son droit de tenir des réunions et des manifestations publiques suspendu pour avoir tenu, par le passé, des réunions non autorisées répétées. Certains de ses membres auraient également été agressés par un groupe de quatre hommes travaillant pour de l’entreprise d’Herakles Farms. SEFE a déjà fait l’objet d’une lettre d’allégation envoyée le 4 janvier 2013, réf. A/HRC/23/51, no. CMR 6/2012. Des questions concernant des allégations de violations du droit à la liberté de réunion pacifique ont fait l’objet de deux lettres d’allégation envoyées le 8 mai 2012, réf. A/HRC/21/49, no. CMR 1/2012, et le 10 juillet 2012, réf. A/HRC/22/67/Corr.2, no. CMR 2/2012.
Alleged victims: 5
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    18 Feb 2014
    Papua New Guinea
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • food
  • water and sanitation
  • business
Alleged negative impact of large-scale land acquisitions under the Special Agricultural and Business Leases (‘SABLs’) scheme on human rights. According to the information received, large-scale land acquisitions have been granted without due respect for legal procedures and safeguards and have negatively impacted the ability of indigenous communities to maintain customary land use patterns, sustain their traditional way of living, access land and secure their rights to food and water. Reportedly, concessions for the development of customary land have been granted without consultation and consent, and there have been incidents of violence or intimidation against landowners who expressed opposition to the SABLs.
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    03 Feb 2014
    Kenya
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • housing
  • food
  • poverty
  • women in law and in practice
Allegations of discrimination against women caused by provisions contained in the 2013 Matrimonial Property Bill. According to the information received, the 2013 Matrimonial Property Bill, adopted by the National Parliament of the Republic of Kenya on 12 November 2013, denies women the right to marital property upon divorce or death of their spouse, unless they can prove they made a financial contribution during their marriage. It has also been reported that only a minority of women own land title deeds in their own names or jointly with men in Kenya and that traditional customary laws regard property as the sole preserve of men, with women often struggling to provide for themselves and their children when they are widowed, divorced or separated.
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    31 Jan 2014
    Syrian Arab Republic
    JUA
  • torture
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • water and sanitation
Alleged denial of access to food, safe drinking water, adequate shelter and medical supplies, facilities and services as a method of war in violation of international human rights law. According to the information received, Government and pro-government armed forces have laid siege to several towns and villages that had previously faced massive levels of destruction of homes and infrastructures, and are blocking access of residents to supplies of food, water, and medicines. Moreover, Government and pro-government forces have reportedly deliberately attacked food and water supplies as well as medical units and personnel in opposition-held areas. Reportedly, anti-government armed groups have also in some cases blocked access to food and medical supplies to residents under siege and attacked medical units.
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    20 Jan 2014
    Syrian Arab Republic
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • torture
  • food
  • health
  • water and sanitation
Alleged denial of access to food, safe drinking water and medical supplies and services for detainees in Aleppo Central Prison. According to the information received, more than 400 detainees in Aleppo Central Prison have died since April 2013, mainly as a result of lack of access to food, safe drinking water and medical supplies and care. The prison, which is under the Government’s control, reportedly houses approximately 3,500 detainees and is located in an area of heavy fighting between Government forces and armed opposition groups. Reportedly, the Red Crescent is prevented from delivering adequate supplies of food and medication to the detainees.
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03 Feb 2014
    01 Oct 2013
    Israel
    JAL
  • food
  • poverty
Alleged policies and practices of the State of Israel negatively impacting the enjoyment of several economic, social, civil and political rights of persons living in the Gaza strip. According to the information received, naval attacks within three nautical miles off the Gaza coast have allegedly resulted in the destruction of fishing boats, nets and other fishing equipment. The alleged restriction of movement of farmers in the “buffer zone” has reportedly resulted in property and crops destruction and damage. Reports further suggest that the limited access to export markets created significant challenges for businesses based in the Gaza strip with 95% of the 3,900 industrial establishments having closed or been forced to suspend their work. According to the reports received, four residents of the Gaza strip have been subjected to these policies and practices and have allegedly sustained important losses, which have plunged them and their families in conditions of extreme poverty, deprivation, inadequate standards of living and food insecurity. Reports further suggest that due to legal and procedural obstacles, the alleged victims are reportedly unable to seek remedy or accountability from Israel.
Alleged victims: 4
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    29 Jul 2013
    Argentina
    JAL
  • torture
  • food
  • health
Alegación de actos de malos tratos y tortura contra internos detenidos dentro de la Unidad Penitenciaria XV de Batán, provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. De acuerdo al reporte recibido, el centro cuenta con condiciones deficientes, así como, hacinamiento ocasionado por la desproporción considerable entre el número de detenidos y la capacidad del centro. Asimismo, se informa que no existe un sistema de control constante dentro de los centros penitenciarios, originando deficiencias en el abastecimiento de alimentos, servicios sanitarios y atención médica las 24 horas. De igual manera, se ha reportado la falta de estrategias de prevención, diagnosis y tratamiento de VIH y tuberculosis. El deterioro de las instalaciones del centro habría sido identificado constantemente por distintas autoridades judiciales. Sin embargo, las resoluciones del Poder Judicial no han sido implementadas, quedando pendiente, la clausura de ciertos pabellones, el control de la alimentación, la mejora en la higiene y desinfección de las instalaciones.
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09 Oct 2013
    11 Jun 2013
    Republic of Korea
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • business
Alleged forced eviction of residents living in Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha, and surrounding areas in India. According to the information received, the Government of India granted concessions to the multi-national steel corporation, Pohang Iron and Steel Corporation (POSC), based in the Republic of Korea, for the construction of an intergrated steel plant and a captive port, which could force up to 20,000 people to leave their homes and land. Sources suggest that the construction of the steel plant would result in serious violations of human rights, including the right to adequate standard of living, food, adequate housing, water and sanitation, health and education.
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14 Aug 2013
    11 Jun 2013
    Other actors
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • business
Alleged forced eviction of residents living in Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha, and surrounding areas in India. According to the information received, the Government of India granted concessions to the multi-national steel corporation, Pohang Iron and Steel Corporation (POSC), based in the Republic of Korea, for the construction of an integrated steel plant and a captive port, which could force up to 20,000 people to leave their homes and land. Sources suggest that the construction of the steel plant would result in serious violations of human rights, including the right to adequate standard of living, food, adequate housing, water and sanitation, health and education.
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24 Jan 2014
    11 Jun 2013
    India
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • international order
  • business
Alleged forced eviction of residents living in Jagatsinghpur District, Odisha, and surrounding areas in India. According to the information received, the Government of India granted concessions to the multi-national steel corporation, Pohang Iron and Steel Corporation (POSC), based in the Republic of Korea, for the construction of an integrated steel plant and a captive port, which could force up to 20,000 people to leave their homes and land. Sources suggest that the construction of the steel plant would result in serious violations of human rights, including the right to adequate standard of living, food, adequate housing, water and sanitation, health and education.
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    23 May 2013
    Colombia
    JAL
  • food
  • minority issues
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
  • African Descent
  • business
Alegaciones sobre los daños ocasionados por el vertimiento de sedimentos acumulados en la represa del Bajo Anchicayá a las minorías afrodescendientes que habitan en la zona. Según información recibida, dichos sedimentos provocaron la extinción de la fauna de la cuenca media y baja del río Anchicayá y también la contaminación del río, que era la única fuente de agua potable de dichas minorías, afectando de esta manera al acceso a una alimentación adecuada y al agua potable y energía eléctrica. Asimismo, se expresa preocupación por el hecho de que no existe una sentencia firme y definitiva después de más de diez años desde el vertimiento de los sedimentos. En este sentido, también se expresa preocupación por el presunto incumplimiento de las medidas impuestas a la Empresa de Energía del Pacífico (EPSA) por el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible.
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13 Sep 2013
30 Dec 2013
30 May 2014
    18 Apr 2013
    United States of America
    AL
  • food
Alleged adverse effects on the enjoyment of the right to food of Maya indigenous communities in Belize related to oil exploration activities by a transnational business corporation headquartered in the United States of America. According to information received, USCapital Energy, a transnational business corporation registered in the United States of America and Belize, is currently carrying out oil exploration activities in the Toledo District of Belize in customary Maya lands on the basis of concessions granted by the Government of Belize without the free, prior and informed consent of the affected indigenous communities. Concern is expressed that the environmental impact assessment of the company does not sufficiently address anticipated negative human rights impacts. Furthermore, it is alleged that the oil exploration activities do not respect judgments of the Supreme Court of Belize and recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the Government abstain from any acts that may affect the lands used and occupied by Maya villages in Toledo District until Maya customary lands have been demarcated and titled, unless these acts are pursuant to the informed consent by the affected indigenous communities.
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    18 Apr 2013
    Other actors
    AL
  • food
Alleged adverse effects on the enjoyment of the right to food of Maya indigenous communities in Belize related to oil exploration activities by a transnational business corporation. According to information received, USCapital Energy, a transnational business corporation registered in the United States of America and in Belize, is currently carrying out oil exploration activities in the Toledo District of Belize in customary Maya lands without the free and informed consent of the affected indigenous communities, negatively affecting their livelihoods and access to food. Concern is expressed that the environmental impact assessment of the company does not sufficiently address anticipated negative human rights impacts. Furthermore, it is alleged that the oil exploration activities do not respect judgments of the Supreme Court of Belize and recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the Government abstain from any acts that may affect the lands used and occupied by Maya villages in Toledo District until Maya customary lands have been demarcated and titled, unless these acts are pursuant to the informed consent by the affected indigenous communities.
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    18 Apr 2013
    Belize
    AL
  • food
Alleged adverse effects on the enjoyment of the right to food of Maya indigenous communities related to concessions granted by the Government for oil exploration activities by a transnational business corporation and the issuing of lease papers for Maya customary land to private individuals. According to information received, USCapital Energy, a transnational business corporation registered in the United States of America and Belize, is currently carrying out oil exploration activities in the Toledo District of Belize in customary Maya lands without the free and informed consent of the affected indigenous communities, negatively affecting their livelihoods and access to food. Moreover, it is alleged that Maya customary land is being leased to private individuals not belonging to the indigenous population. Allegedly, these activities do not respect judgments of the Supreme Court of Belize and recommendations of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the Government abstain from any acts that may affect the lands used and occupied by Maya villages in Toledo District until Maya customary lands have been demarcated and titled, unless these acts are pursuant to the informed consent by the affected indigenous communities.
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    28 Mar 2013
    Other actors
    JAL
  • food
  • foreign debt
Letter following up on replies received from the World Bank concerning a previous communication (see A/HRC/22/67, case No. OTH 7/2012).The letter seeks further clarification concerning the role of the World Bank in supporting the process of privatizing Burundi’s coffee industry and the extent to which studies have been carried out to assess the social impacts of the recommended privatization strategy and its effect on poor and vulnerable groups.
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    08 Mar 2013
    Chad
    JAL
  • food
  • health
  • water and sanitation
Allégation de privation d’attention médicale et de mauvaises conditions d’assainissement et d’alimentation des détenus dans les prisons de la République du Tchad. Selon les informations reçues, les prisons du Tchad seraient surpeuplées et manqueraient des services de santé essentiels, tels que personnels soignants, infirmeries équipées ou médicaments. Les infirmeries seraient utilisées comme des cellules supplémentaires. La source rapporte aussi que les installations d’assainissement seraient insuffisantes, mal entretenues et parfois inexistantes, de sorte que des maladies contagieuses et d’origine hydrique se propageraient parmi les détenus (tuberculose, gastroentérite, diarrhées et affections dermatologiques). La situation des prisons de Moussoro et d’Amsinene serait particulièrement grave. De plus, il est rapporté que l’alimentation des détenus ne serait pas toujours assurée à un niveau adéquat.
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    03 Dec 2012
    Armenia
    JAL
  • food
  • health
  • toxics and human rights
  • water and sanitation
  • business
Allegations that the development and operation of the Teghut copper-molybdenum mining project will have serious environmental, health, social, and other human rights impacts. According to information received, some 82.6% of the territory conceded to the company is forest, 357 hectares of which will be cleared, and mine exploitation would allegedly result in 500 million tons of tailings (hazardous waste) and 600 million tons of other kinds of waste, to be disposed of in the gorge of Duganadzor river. Concerns are raised that this situation, not only poses a risk to those living around the project, but also to the entire country and neighboring countries.
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02 Apr 2013
    31 Oct 2012
    Philippines
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • indigenous peoples
  • executions
  • food
Allegations concerning the situation of oil palm cultivation in Higaonon indigenous communities in the municipality of Opol, Misamis Oriental in southern Philippines, as well as the alleged killing of an indigenous Higaonon leader who had protested against the oil palm cultivation. According to the allegations received, local government officials have actively promoted and facilitated oil palm plantations within Opol, Misamis Oriental without consideration of the land and natural resource rights of the indigenous peoples in the area. The alleged removal of Higaonon community members from their lands to make way for oil palm cultivation has reportedly led to the serious disruption of Higaonon agricultural and other traditional practices in their ancestral lands. It has also been alleged that Higaonon leaders who have actively opposed and criticized oil palm operations have been threatened and assaulted by company employees and in some cases by law enforcement officials. In this connection, information has been received regarding the shooting death of Gilbert Paborada, an indigenous Higaonon leader who had protested against oil palm operations.
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    21 Aug 2012
    Bangladesh
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • migrants
  • racism
  • food
  • health
  • water and sanitation
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Alleged negative human rights impacts stemming from the order to ban three humanitarian aid organizations from supporting unregistered Rohingya asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants in and around unofficial camps in the Cox’s Bazar district in south-eastern Bangladesh. According to information received, Médecins Sans Frontières, Action Contre la Faim and Muslim Aid UK received letters on 2 August 2012 from the NGO Affairs Bureau attached to the Office of the Prime Minister, asking them to cease their operations in the Cox’s Bazar district (except in the two official camps, housing some 30,000 Rohingya, run by the Government and supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and other partners). It is alleged that the cessation of the aid organizations activities will not only seriously infringe on the human rights of the unregistered Rohingya asylum-seekers, refugees and migrants, but also have a significant impact on the large number of local people in the area who regularly access the services provided by the non-governmental organizations.
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23 Aug 2012
    10 Aug 2012
    Other actors
    JAL
  • food
  • foreign debt
Alleged negative human rights impacts stemming from the privatization of Burundi’s coffee industry, particularly in relation to the right to food. According to the information received, the World Bank has been the driving force behind the privatization process, making its budget support to the Government and receipt of foreign aid conditional upon the privatization of the coffee industry and playing a key role in defining the conditions for privatization. As the majority of the population receives its income from the coffee industry, changes in wages and payments for coffee and coffee processing can have significant impacts on the ability of the population to purchase food and meet their food needs. Reportedly, no study has been conducted into how privatization will affect the ability of local populations to access food.
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09 Oct 2012
16 Jan 2013
    10 Aug 2012
    Burundi
    JAL
  • food
  • foreign debt
Allégation de l’impact négatif de la privatisation de l’industrie caféière du Burundi sur les droits de l’homme, et en particulier sur le droit à l’alimentation. Selon les informations reçues, la Banque Mondiale est la force motrice des privatisations au Burundi ; elle a d’ailleurs soumis à la condition de privatisation, son appui budgétaire et la réception d’aide au développement par le pays. La Banque Mondiale joue également un rôle important dans la définition des conditions de privatisation. Puisque la majorité de la population reçoit son revenu de l’industrie caféière, des changements dans les salaires, dans le paiement ou dans la transformation du café peuvent avoir un impact significatif sur la capacité de la population à acheter sa nourriture et à répondre à ses besoins alimentaires. Il est allégué qu’aucune étude n’a été préparée sur la manière dont la privatisation pourrait affecter la capacité des populations locales à avoir accès à l’alimentation.
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09 Oct 2012
21 Nov 2012
    09 Aug 2012
    Colombia
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
Alegaciones acerca de la situación de inseguridad de la tenencia de la comunidad de Las Pavas de aproximadamente 123 familias que supuestamente fueron desalojadas forzosamente en 2003, 2006 y 2009. Según las informaciones recibidas, las familias continúan en situación de inseguridad de la tenencia de la tierra, lo cual pone en riesgo sus derechos a un nivel de vida adecuado, a la vivienda y a la alimentación.
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23 Oct 2012
    16 Jul 2012
    Panama
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
Presuntas amenazas de desalojos forzosos en el contexto de diversos proyectos de desarrollo urbano y turístico en la Isla Pedro González, y en las Comunidades Santa Clara y Pacora de la Provincia de Coclé. Según las informaciones recibidas, en la Isla Pedro González, los habitantes ya habrían sido desalojados de sus tierras, a pesar de luchas contra dicha medida durante cuatro años, y podrían ser desalojados de sus viviendas. En las comunidades Santa Clara y Pacora, alrededor de treinta y siete familias estarían en riesgo de sufrir desalojos forzosos como resultado de acciones judiciales por parte de particulares que alegan tener la propiedad de los predios en los que habitan, a pesar de que los territorios tendrían restricciones constitucionales que impedirían su enajenación. Aparente intervención policial, con uso de gas lacrimógeno y balas de salva, habría tenido lugar en respuesta a las protestas de los residentes de las comunidades.
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19 Apr 2013
06 May 2013
    06 Jul 2012
    Other actors
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • indigenous peoples
  • housing
  • food
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Alleged negative impacts on human rights of affected communities of a proposed Bangladesh domestic policy permitting the construction of an open-pit coal mine in the township of Phulbari. Concerns transmitted to GCM Resources plc, which through its subsidiary Asia Energy Corporation (Bangladesh) Pty Ltd works under a contract with the Government of Bangladesh on the Phulbari Coal Mine project. According to information received, the open-pit coal mine in Phulbari, if constructed, would have a significant impact on food production and access by destroying approximately 12,000 acres of productive agricultural land, and on water access by lowering the water table 12 to 25 metres and potentially poisoning water sources. The proposed mine would allegedly displace up to 220,000 people over time, 50,000 of whom are indigenous peoples belonging to 23 different tribal groups. Current plans reportedly do not provide adequate compensation or resettlement, and have not included consultations with affected communities. Finally, allegations have been raised concerning continued efforts to stop human rights defenders from protesting the Phulbari coal mine and the resulting infringements on their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
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31 Jan 2013
    30 Apr 2012
    Nepal
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • water and sanitation
Alleged threats to the enjoyment of the rights to food, housing, water and sanitation, and health care for several communities in Banke, Nepal as a result of annual flooding caused by the Lakshmanpur Dam and the Kalkwala Afflux Bund. According to information received, annual floods threaten more than 3,000 families of Holiya, Bethani, Mattaiya, Fattepur, Bankatti and Gangapur in the Banke district of Nepal. While some flooding in the area is a natural phenomenon, the annual flooding has been aggravated since the construction of the Lakshmanpur Dam in 1985 and, in particular the Kalkwala Afflux Bund built between 1999 and 2000 by the Government of India along the Indo-Nepali border. Reportedly, the affected communities were not consulted prior to the construction of the dam and afflux bund in question. It is alleged that no proper resettlement plan has been put in place despite the challenges the affected communities face yearly.
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20 Sep 2012
    30 Apr 2012
    India
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
  • health
  • water and sanitation
Alleged threats to the enjoyment of the rights to food, housing, water and sanitation, and health care for several communities in Banke, Nepal as a result of annual flooding caused by the Lakshmanpur Dam and the Kalkwala Afflux Bund. According to information received, annual floods threaten more than 3,000 families of Holiya, Bethani, Mattaiya, Fattepur, Bankatti and Gangapur in the Banke district of Nepal. While some flooding in the area is a natural phenomenon, the annual flooding has been aggravated since the construction of the Lakshmanpur Dam in 1985 and, in particular the Kalkwala Afflux Bund built between 1999 and 2000 by the Government of India along the Indo-Nepali border. Reportedly, the affected communities were not consulted prior to the construction of the dam and afflux bund in question. It is alleged that no proper resettlement plan has been put in place despite the challenges the affected communities face yearly.
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06 Aug 2013
    22 Mar 2012
    Bangladesh
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
  • poverty
Alleged threats to the right to an adequate standard of living, the right to food and the right to housing posed by illegal sand extraction. According to the information received, around 12,000 villagers living on Mayadip Island on the Meghna River face increased risk of food insecurity and homelessness as a consequence of soil erosion caused by sand extraction carried out by two companies without government authorization. Reportedly a court order issued on 26 April 2011 requiring the cessation of the sand extraction from the riverbanks close to Mayadip Island is not being enforced in practice. It is alleged that unless the practice of extracting sand is stopped, erosion will have a lasting impact on livelihoods and food insecurity in the area and result in the mass displacement of the island’s residents.
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29 Mar 2012
    29 Feb 2012
    Philippines
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • food
Alleged threats to the right to food posed by agrofuel project. According to the information received, large-scale land acquisition to secure land for the development of an agrofuel project, which will extend over 11,000 hectares, is negatively affecting the livelihood of local farmers in the municipality of San Mariano in the province of Isabela, home to some 44,700 people, including indigenous people communities. Reportedly, irregular land leasing practices have been to the disadvantage of small-scale food producers. Allegedly, there were no genuine consultations with affected communities, including the local indigenous people, and the compensation offered to farmers for the lease of the land was often well under the value associated with the land.
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    15 Feb 2012
    Bangladesh
    JAL
  • food
  • poverty
Alleged denial of food assistance to vulnerable groups caused by corruption. According to the information received, 1000 Vulnerable Group Feeding cards were allocated under the Vulnerable Group Feeding programme to the Monohorpur Union of the Gaibandha district to be distributed to the poorest and most food insecure in the area. Reportedly, the families who have been provided the feeding cards repeatedly do not receive the food they are owed, and families who fit the criteria for the food assistance programme have reportedly not received feeding cards. Allegedly, corruption amongst local public servants and political activists is at the root of the program’s reported failures at reaching the families in need. There is reportedly no administrative or judicial review process allowing local communities to voice complaints or concerns about the program.
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22 Feb 2012
    01 Feb 2012
    Indonesia
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • food
Alleged violations of the enjoyment of various human rights through large-scale land acquisitions in Indonesia. According to the information received, the Meruake Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) project, designed to produce inter alia agrofuels for export, is resulting in the non-consensual conversion of indigenous peoples’ ancestral lands and forests. Numerous indigenous communities, including the Zanegi, Malind, Muyu, Mandobo, Mappi and Auyu, populate this area and rely on the forests for hunting and food collection as well as for providing the foundation of their identities, unique cultures and spirituality. Information received suggests that the local indigenous communities have not been provided with good faith consultations regarding the changes in land use of their traditional territories and that no procedures were put in place to obtain their free prior informed consent. The MIFEE project has also allegedly used coercive practices to obtain the required signatures of individuals relinquishing their rights. According to reports, the MIFEE project has reduced food availability for local populations. Finally, allegations received suggest that Papua provincial police and national military intelligence have employed intimidation tactics to dissuade local community members from raising concerns about the MIFEE project.
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02 May 2013
    28 Dec 2011
    Uganda
    AL
  • food
Alleged forced eviction of subsistence farmers in Northern Uganda. According to information received, from 17 to 21 August 2001 the Ugandan army (Uganda People’s Defence Force, UPDF), using excessive force, expelled close to 4000 inhabitants of the villages of Kitemba, Luwunga, Kijunga and Kiryamakobe in the Mubende District from their land in order to lease the land to the Kaweri Coffee Plantation Ltd. Allegedly, a total of 2524 hectares of land were unlawfully seized from these communities, houses were burnt and demolished, moveable properties were looted and crops destroyed. Reportedly, the evictees lived on their respective lands for more than 12 years, unchallenged, and used the land productively for farming purposes. Allegedly, almost no compensation was provided to the evicted inhabitants and no adequate relocation options were provided. Reportedly, in 2002, 2,041 evictees sought legal redress for the alleged violations and brought the case to the Ugandan High Court. Reports received indicate that since the filing in 2002 the case has been delayed in Nakawa High Court, Kampala and no substantial decision has been reached.
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    21 Dec 2011
    Bangladesh
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  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • indigenous peoples
  • housing
  • food
  • poverty
  • water and sanitation
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Alleged negative impacts on human rights of affected communities of proposed domestic policy permitting the construction of an open-pit coal mine in the township of Phulbari. According to the information received, the open-pit mine in Phulbari, if constructed, would have a significant impact on food production and access, by destroying close to 12,000 acres of productive agricultural land, and on water access by lowering the water table 12 to 25 meters and potentially poisoning water sources. The mine would allegedly lead to the displacement of up to 220,000 people over time, 50,000 of whom are indigenous people belonging to 23 different tribal groups. Current plans reportedly do not provide for adequate compensation or resettlement and have not included consultations with affected communities. Finally, allegations have been raised regarding continued efforts to stop human rights defenders from protesting the Phulbari coal mine.
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22 Dec 2011
    30 Nov 2011
    Ecuador
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Acerca de las alegaciones recibidas indicando el asesinato del Sr. Marlon Lozano Yulán, miembro de la organización Unión Tierra y Vida. Según la informacion recibida, el Sr. Marlon Lozano Yulán, fue objecto de disparos cuando éste se encontraba en la intersección de las calles Rumichaca y Manabí de la ciudad de Guayaquil. Las heridas le habrían ocasionado una hemorragia interna, causándole la muerte el 21 de julio de 2011. Según se informa, varios dirigentes de diversas asociaciones que luchan por el acceso a la tierra, habrían sido también asesinados y objeto de actos intimidatorios.
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    18 Nov 2011
    Thailand
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • internally displaced persons
  • migrants
  • housing
  • food
  • water and sanitation
Alleged arbitrary arrest and detention and lack of access to food, water and adequate housing and other alleged human rights violations of migrant workers in Thailand in the context of the flood crisis. According to information received, migrant workers working and living in Thailand have been arrested and detained for travelling outside of their permitted areas of work or for lack of identification documents as they have escaped flooded areas to seek shelter, reunite with relatives, or return to their countries of origin. Many of the arrests and detention have allegedly occurred in Mae Sot, Tak Province, at the border with Myanmar. Reports of lack of access to food and water for migrants whilst in detention or in certain areas due to migrant workers being excluded from distribution of food and other essential items according to house registration records have also been received. It is further alleged that migrant workers have been denied access to emergency shelters as some facilities have allegedly been open to Thai citizens only, whilst other shelters have required the holding of a recommendation or certificate from the Ministry of Labour. According to information received, migrant workers have furthermore had difficulties in accessing assistance due to poor or little access to information. Deportation of migrants from Thailand to Myanmar have also been reported which could be in violation of the obligation of non-refoulement.
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24 Nov 2011
04 Apr 2012
    25 Oct 2011
    Honduras
    JUA
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • torture
  • housing
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Presunto asesinato, atentado contra la vida, detención arbitraria y amenaza de muerte. Según las informaciones recibidas, el 2 de octubre de 2011, el Sr. X, miembro de la cooperativa Lempira afiliada al Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguán (MUCA), habría sido asesinado por guardias de seguridad de una finca privada en el valle del Bajo Aguán. Desde enero de 2010 aproximadamente 40 personas vinculadas a las organizaciones campesinas de la región habrían sido asesinadas. El 5 de octubre de 2011, los Sres. Y, tesorero del Asentamiento Campesino La Aurora, y Z, secretario de la misma cooperativa, habrían sido atacados con armas de fuego por guardias de seguridad y habrían resultado gravemente heridos. El 6 de octubre de 2011 el Sr. A, miembro del Movimiento Campesino Recuperación Nacional, habría sido detenido y trasladado a las oficinas de la policía en Tocoa, Colón donde le habría interrogado, golpeado y se le habría aplicado toques eléctricos. La policía le habría dado dos días para que denunciara a los dirigentes de la organización campesina y le habría amenazado de muerte en caso de no proveer la información.
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    10 Aug 2011
    Guatemala
    JAL
  • housing
  • food
Supuesto desalojo de 14 comunidades Q’echi’es del valle del Polochic. El desalojo fue sujeto de una comunicación anterior (ver A/HRC/18/51, GTM 4/2011). Según la nueva información recibida, el Estado no habría accionado los mecanismos institucionales suficientes para dar con una solución al problema de la falta de vivienda y tierra por parte de las comunidades desalojadas, y las propuestas presentadas no se mostrarían viables para dichas comunidades. Según los informes recibidos, las familias desalojadas se encontrarían en una situación extremadamente difícil viviendo en distintas áreas, buscando refugio temporal en casas de familiares y otras comunidades, alquilando tierras o viviendo al margen de la carretera. Otro enfrentamiento se habría llevado a cabo el 21 de mayo, cuando las comunidades habrían entrado nuevamente en las tierras para recolectar sus cultivos y habrían abandonado corriendo el lugar ante la llegada de guardias de seguridad fuertemente armados. Ese mismo día, guardias privados habrían utilizado armas de fuego contra los campesinos de la comunidad Canlún I, asesinando al campesino Oscar Reyes e hiriendo a los campesinos Miguel Chub Cucul, Marcelino Ical Chub y Alnoldo Caal Rax.
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    29 Jul 2011
    India
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Alleged acts of violence and intimidation in the context of forced evictions. According to the information received, the residents of Govindpur village have for several years expressed opposition to the acquisition of their lands by a Korean-owned company called POSCO. On 9 June 2011, over 2,000 villagers reportedly formed a human barricade, trying to prevent the police forces from seizing the land for the company. The people of Govindpur were allegedly not able to access the nearby market to sell their products for fear of being captured by the police. Reportedly, the police forces also proceeded to destroy the betel vine, a locally grown food crop, in an apparent effort to force villagers to leave their lands. On 16 July 2011, more than 200 people from Sanhaipai Mathasahi village and Polong village reportedly gathered in the forest in order to prevent the area from being cleared by the police. The police allegedly responded with violence, and eight people were injured. On 15 July 2011, hundreds of people protesting the land acquisitions for the construction of the integrated steel plant were reportedly arrested and then released. The authorities of Orissa allegedly processed hundreds of criminal charges against residents who mobilized to resist the land acquisition efforts. Since 2009 the following leaders have reportedly been arrested and then released on bail: Mr. Ashok Bardhan, Mr. Sura Dash, Mr. Dambarudhar Palai, Mr. Bhramarbar Sethy, Mr. Sachikanta Mahapatra, Mr. Kailash Biswal, Mr. Anirudha Nayak, Mr. Ramesh Das, Mr. Abhaya Sahoo and Mr. Prakash Jena . On 3 June 2011, the police reportedly brutally beat villagers from the community of Nuagoan, who were expressing opposition to the forceful acquisition of their land for the project. Several people were allegedly injured in the attack . 17 people were allegedly arrested, including women and children. Members of the local government administration allegedly incited project supporters to burn down the betel vines of a member of PPSS in the Nuagaon village . The alleged forced eviction of farmers from Polong and Noliasahi villages was the subject of an earlier communication (see above, IND 12/2011).
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    04 Jul 2011
    Philippines
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • food
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Alleged acts of violence and intimidation against human rights defenders. According to the information received, on 14 June 2011, private guards opened fire and beat protestors who had set up camp outside the Central Mindanao University (CMU). The guards had reportedly been hired by the CMU. Mr. Billy Jardin, Mr. Gregorio Santillan and Mr. Larry de Vera reportedly received gunshot wounds and were hospitalised. The guards allegedly beat many of the protesters including Mr. Wenni Loable, Mr. José Benemerito and Ms. Marilou Fortin, who were seriously injured as a result. The aforementioned human rights defenders are members of the Buffalo-Tamaraw-Limus (BTL) Farmer’s Association and BTL Women’s Association. They had set up camp outside the university to protest against the forced eviction of approximately 800 families from over 400 hectares of land that were inside of the CMU.
Alleged victims: 6
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    17 Jun 2011
    Other actors
    AL
  • food
Letter from the Special Rapporteur on the right to food to the European Commission, transmitting his views on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). In the Special Rapporteur’s view, the reform of the CAP offers a unique opportunity to take into account the impact of the agricultural policies of the European Union on the right to food in developing countries.
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    29 Apr 2011
    China
    JUA
    CHN 12/2011
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • religion or belief
  • food
  • minority issues
Alleged police killings and arrest of monks. A communication was sent on 21 April 2011 concerning the harassment of the monastic community and the deteriorating situation at Ngaba Kirti Monastery (see above, case no. CHN 9/2011). According to the new information received, on the evening of 21 April and morning of 22 April 2011, more than 300 monks were arrested in Ngaba Kirti Monastery and driven away in army trucks to undisclosed locations. A group of elderly lay people who were standing vigil at the monastery gate were allegedly beaten by the police and their arms and legs were broken. Ms. Sherkyi, 65 years old, and Mr. Dhonkho, 60 years old, reportedly died as a result of the beatings by the police. Among the monks who were reportedly arrested, the following remained detained: Mr. Lobsang Rinchen (37 years old), Mr. Lobsang Samten (39 years old), Mr. Lobsang Tsering (32 years old), Mr. Chuka Samten (30 years old), Mr. Dakpa (29 years old), Mr. Samten Dher (31 years old), Mr. Sangye (45 years old), Mr. Lopel (38 years old), Mr. Loepo (32 years old), Mr. Takho (31 years old), Mr. Woesel (38 years old), Mr. Choephel (43 years old), Mr. Lobsang Sopa (42 years old), Mr. Samdup (39 years old), Mr. Jamyang Tempa (45 years old), Mr. Tsondu (30 years old), Mr. Yeshi (28 years old), Mr. Lhundup Ringmo (29 years old), Mr. Thupten Jamyang (32 years old), Mr. Tsezin (38 years old), Mr. Shedup, Mr. Lhundup Ringmo, Mr. Jampa (30 years old), Mr. Choejay (28 years old), Mr. Khai Sang (29 years old), Mr. Wangdak (30 years old), Mr. Tenchok (31 years old), Mr. Gedhun Tsering (35 years old), Mr. Khayon Sangye (38 years old), Mr. Khayon Tashi (31 years old), Mr. Jamyang Tenzin (45 years old), Mr. Choephel (29 years old), Mr. Tsering (25 years old), Mr. Jampel Tsultrim (31 years old), Mr. Tsering Thoepa (33 years old), Mr. Choezing (19 years old), Mr. Tsering (18 years old), Mr. Choe chok (18 years old), Mr. Jigme (21 years old), Mr. Dakpa Gosay (45 years old), Mr. Woezo Lhundup (47 years old), Mr. Tsongon Trulku (48 years old), Mr. Tse Trulku (50 years old), Mr. Lobsang Sherab (33 years old), Mr. Jamyang (41 years old), Mr. Dakpa Nag (34 years old), Mr. Ngenkho (35 years old), Mr. Dakpa Chung (27 years old) and Mr. Lobsang Kelsang (34 years old).
Alleged victims: 44
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    21 Apr 2011
    China
    JUA
    CHN 9/2011
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • religion or belief
  • torture
  • food
  • minority issues
Alleged harassment of monastic community. According to the information received, on 16 March 2011, marking the third anniversary of a demonstration at Ngaba Kirti Monastery in which 10 Tibetans were reportedly killed, the late monk Phuntsok Jarutsang, aged 21, set himself on fire. Subsequently, over 1,000 monks and laymen took to the streets to express their anger. Reportedly, at least 33 individuals were arrested and the Chinese Government imposed an indefinite ban on the religious activities at the Monastery. The protestors were reportedly dispersed by a large military force using steel truncheons and electric batons, with several monks and laymen being detained. On 8 April, the following three monks from the Ngaba Kirti Monastery were reportedly arrested: Mr. Dhonyoe Dorjee, Mr. Tenzin Jamko and an unidentified monk. On the same day, following a protest in front of the Public Security Bureau Office at Warma Township in Dzamthang County, an unidentified man was reportedly critically injured in a police offensive and died later in hospital. On 30 March, two monks, Mr. Lobsang Ngodup, 32 years old, and Mr. Lobsang Choephel, 24 years old, were reportedly detained and their whereabouts remained unknown. On 25 March, Mr. Lobsang Tsepak, 27 years old, was reportedly detained by police in Beijing. He is a student at the Central Nationalities University and also affiliated to the Ngaba Kirti Monastery. On 23 March, Mr. Wolkho, Mr. Dorjee, Mr. A-Dor and Mr. Woeser Dorjee were reportedly arrested and detained. This was following a protest in Namda Township, a neighboring township in Ngaba, to express solidarity with the protesters in Ngaba County. On 20 March, Mr. Lobsang Tenzin, a 19-year-old monk of Ngaba Kirti Monastery was reportedly arrested and detained. Furthermore, in September 2010, Order No. 8 entitled ?Management measure for Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and temples? was reportedly issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), entering into force on 1 November 2010. Order No. 8 reportedly curtails traditional Buddhist practices including the transmission of teachings and traditional practices of Buddhist hierarchy as well as enabling Government authorities to implement policies uniformly across the monastic institutions.
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    18 Mar 2011
    Guatemala
    JUA
    GTM 4/2011
  • housing
  • food
Supuestos procesos de desalojo de doce comunidades en el Valle del Polochic. Según la información recibida, el 15 de marzo de 2011, la policía Nacional Civil y miembros del ejército desalojaron a la comunidad Miralvalle. Habrian disparado armas de fuego. Como resultado, falleció Antonio Beb Ac, y otros habrían resultado heridos: Federico Caal, Emilio Xol Yat, Hugo Leonel Caal, y Concepción Tut Coy. El 16 de marzo, la comunidad Caserío Agua Caliente de Telemán habría sido notificada con una hora de antelación del desalojo de sus casas y cultivos. El 17 de marzo otras dos comunidades habrían sido desalojadas. Se habrían realizado detenciones, intimidaciones y amenazas. Este mismo día, habrían entrado a desalojar a la comunidad ?Bella Flor?, donde fue capturado por la policía el campesino Manuel Xuc Cucul de Panzos. Según la información recibida, las comunidades se encontrarían en un proceso de diálogo y negociación para resolver la conflictividad agraria.
Alleged victims: 5
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    18 Feb 2011
    Malaysia
    JAL
    MYS 3/2011
  • indigenous peoples
  • food
Alleged failure to recognize and respect native customary land rights. According to the information received, the Kayan indigenous community of the Long Teran Kanan village in Tinjar, Miri, Sarawak had been involved in a legal dispute over their land for 12 years. The Miri High Court allegedly ruled in favour of the community on 31 March 2010. One of the defendants, IOI Pelita Plantation Sdn. Bhd., appealed the judgment and had allegedly not respected the court order in the interim, continuing palm oil operations in the community. The village‘s crops have reportedly been bulldozed and planted with oil palms, destroying the Kayan people‘s traditional livelihoods and threatening their right to food. This case is reportedly emblematic of the over 200 cases before the Sarawak courts relating to indigenous communities‘ ability to exercise their native customary rights over their lands, upon which they depend for fishing, hunting or farming, and which are essential to their cultural survival. See the Special Rapporteur‘s observations on this case in A/HRC/18/35.Add.1.
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    01 Feb 2011
    Egypt
    JUA
    EGY 4/2011
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • torture
  • food
  • disappearances
Alleged arrests, excessive use of force, killings, attacks against journalists, and disruptions in media coverage and access to the Internet in relation to demonstrations. According to the information received, the following demonstrators were killed between 25 and 29 January 2011: Mutapha Ragab, aged 21, Sulaiman Saber, aged 35, Ghareeb Abdulall, Fayez Fahim, Mohamed Ahmed Yosph, aged 23, Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud, aged 26, Alae Abdelmehsen, Mustapha Abdellah, Mohamed Sha‘ban Bashir, aged 30, Mutafa Jamal Wardani, Eraddi Mohamed =eraddi, Ahmed Ali Mohamed, Achraf Nour Al DIn Mohamed, aged 40, Islam Metwali Mohamed, Sharif Al Sayed Redwan, Faraj Abdelfatah Awad, Mohamed Mahrous Anwar, Samir Abdellah, aged 55, Ali Ahmed Ali, Abdelmajeed Abdelalim Abdelmajeed, aged 41. Reportedly, hundreds of arrests were made of peaceful demonstrators, and some of those arrested were taken to undisclosed locations. On 26 January, access to social networking sites were reportedly blocked, and on 28 January, the country‘s four primary Internet service providers all stopped moving data in and out of the country. Similarly, mobile phone connections were disrupted. On 30 January, the Minister of Information reportedly ordered the suspension of the operations of Al-Jazeera in Egypt. The following journalists were allegedly targeted by security forces while covering the demonstrations: Mr. Asadallah al-Sawi, Mr. Ahmad Mansour, Mr. Ben Wedemen and Ms. Mary Rogers.
Alleged victims: 16
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    24 Jan 2011
    Other actors
    AL
    OTH 1/2011
  • food
Alleged negative impact on the right to food by the proposed EU-India free trade agreement. According to the information received, there are strong reasons to fear that the dairy and poultry sectors, especially vulnerable small-scale producers, would come under heavy pressure were import tariffs towards the EU products to be abolished under the Agreement being negotiated. It is also alleged that the investment provisions of the treaty may not be accompanied by appropriate safeguards to ensure that no investment will encourage evictions or displacement that are not in conformity with human rights principles. Consequently, the Special Rapporteur urged the European Union to consider preparing a full human rights impact assessment of the draft text of the EU-India Free Trade Agreement, prior to presenting the agreement for ratification or approval by the parliament to provide it with the information required to make a fully informed decision about the final text.
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    24 Jan 2011
    India
    AL
    IND 2/2011
  • food
Alleged negative impact on the right to food by the proposed EU-India free trade agreement. According to the information received, there are strong reasons to fear that the dairy and poultry sectors, especially vulnerable small-scale producers, would come under heavy pressure were import tariffs towards the EU products to be abolished under the Agreement being negotiated. It is also alleged that the investment provisions of the treaty may not be accompanied by appropriate safeguards to ensure that no investment will encourage evictions or displacement that are not in conformity with human rights principles. Consequently, the Special Rapporteur urged the Government of India to consider preparing a full human rights impact assessment of the draft text of the EU-India Free Trade Agreement, prior to presenting the agreement for ratification or approval by the parliament to provide it with the information required to make a fully informed decision about the final text.
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