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749 communications found
Date, Country,
Type and
ref. no. of
communication
Mandates Summary Replies
received
    04 Dec 2023
    Russian Federation
    JOL
  • Russian Federation
  • human rights defenders
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • terrorism
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the recognition of the LGBTQI+ movement as “extremist” and the prohibition of its activities within the territory of the Russian Federation.
Alleged victims: -
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    23 Oct 2023
    Sri Lanka
    JOL
  • women and girls
  • cultural rights
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • sale of children
Information received concerning a Draft Bill for the Amendment of the Muslim Marriage and Divorce Act No.13 of 1951 (MMDA), which, would it be adopted, would be contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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27 Oct 2023
    18 Oct 2023
    Yemen
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Oct 2023
    United Arab Emirates
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Oct 2023
    Syrian Arab Republic
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Oct 2023
    Saudi Arabia
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Oct 2023
    Qatar
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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21 Nov 2023
    18 Oct 2023
    Oman
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Oct 2023
    Lebanon
    OL
  • women and girls
Information reçue concernant les restrictions à la mobilité des femmes qui sont fondées sur certaines interprétations de la religion consacrées par la législation et les pratiques sociales relatives à la "tutelle masculine", contraires aux normes internationales en matière de droits de l'homme.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Oct 2023
    Kuwait
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning l restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Oct 2023
    Jordan
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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22 Nov 2023
    18 Oct 2023
    Iraq
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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06 Dec 2023
    18 Oct 2023
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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    18 Oct 2023
    Egypt
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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31 Oct 2023
    18 Oct 2023
    Bahrain
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning restrictions on women’s mobility that are based on certain interpretations of religion enshrined in legislation and social practices about “male guardianship”, contrary to international human rights norms.
Alleged victims: -
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    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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    18 Sep 2023
    Nicaragua
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • older persons
  • terrorism
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la persecución jurídica a defensores de derechos humanos por parte de las autoridades, a través del despojo de su nacionalidad nicaragüense.
Alleged victims: 6
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    31 Aug 2023
    Dominican Republic
    JAL
  • migrants
  • African Descent
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • racism
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
información adicional recibida en relación con nuestra comunicación anterior UA DOM 2/2021, de 10 de diciembre de 2021, sobre la situación de presuntas detenciones y deportaciones masivas de mujeres haitianas embarazadas y lactantes, sin tener en cuenta sus vulnerabilidades específicas. Agradecemos la respuesta del Estado al respecto, recibida el 21 de febrero de 2022. Sin embargo, quisiéramos reiterar nuestra preocupación por las posibles violaciones de los derechos fundamentales, incluidos los derechos de los migrantes, refugiados, solicitantes de asilo y apátridas.
Alleged victims: 171800
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07 Nov 2023
    30 Aug 2023
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • cultural rights
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • religion or belief
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the new “Bill to Support the Family by Promoting the Culture of Chastity and Hijab”, fast tracked and voted by the Parliament on 13 August 2023.
Alleged victims: -
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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
    25 Aug 2023
    Jordan
    JAL
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning a fierce campain against lawyer Hala Ahed targeting her on social media due to her peaceful and legitimate human rights work.
Alleged victims: 1
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18 Oct 2023
    18 Aug 2023
    Thailand
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • violence against women and girls
Information received concerning the lack of accountability and protection measures for the online intimidation and harassment against two women human rights defenders, Ms. Angkhana Neelapaijit and Ms. Anchana Heemmina, despite the Bangkok Civil Court ruling on 16 February 2023, which recognized that they were affected by an online smear campaign, and that their work as women human rights defenders warrants State protection as per international human rights law and standards.
Alleged victims: 2
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30 Aug 2023
07 Dec 2023
    17 Aug 2023
    Tunisia
    JAL
  • migrants
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • internally displaced persons
  • racism
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant le cadre de partenariat stratégique et global entre le gouvernement de la Tunisie et l'Union européenne, qui pourrait constituer une violation du principe de non-refoulement et des droits de l'homme des migrants, y compris des enfants.
Alleged victims: 365
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    17 Aug 2023
    Permanent Delegation of the European Union
    JAL
  • migrants
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • internally displaced persons
  • racism
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
information received concerning the Strategic and Comprehensive Partnership Framework between the Government of Tunisia and the European Union, whose future implementation of modalities could give rise to possible violation of the principle of non-refoulement and the human rights of migrants, including children.
Alleged victims: 365
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13 Oct 2023
    16 Aug 2023
    Russian Federation
    JOL
  • Russian Federation
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • women and girls
Information received concerning Federal Law No. 386 “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” (dated 24 July 2023).
Alleged victims: -
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    16 Aug 2023
    Greece
    JAL
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • migrants
  • racism
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the death of at least 82 persons on the move and probably up to 600 persons reportedly disappeared following the sinking of the fishing boat “Adriana” off the Greek coast on 14 June 2023.
Alleged victims: 750
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    15 Aug 2023
    Rapid Response Forces
    JAL
  • violence against women and girls
  • arbitrary Detention
  • development
  • disappearances
  • Eritrea
  • executions
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • mercenaries
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • sale of children
  • slavery
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Information received concerning repeated widespread and credible allegations of sexual violence, harassment and abuse by the Rapid Response Forces (RSF) against women and girls in conflict-affected areas, particularly against refugee and internally displaced persons.
Alleged victims: 1
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    09 Aug 2023
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the re-arrest and detention of women human rights defenders Jina Modares Gorji and Sepideh Gholian.
Alleged victims: 2
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18 Oct 2023
    08 Aug 2023
    France
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • education
  • privacy
  • sale of children
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant certains aspects du traitement des enfants, garçons et filles, dans la période post-rapatriement, qui nous paraissent problématiques du point de vue du droit international, en particulier en ce qui concerne la Convention relative aux droits des enfants. Nous souhaitons également partager nos préoccupations quant à l’impact du décret numéro 2023-255 du 6 avril 2023 autorisant la création d’un traitement automatisé de données à caractère personnel relatif à la prise en charge des mineurs de retour de zones d’opérations de groupements terroristes (MRZOGT), sur les droits fondamentaux de ces enfants.
Alleged victims: 224
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    07 Aug 2023
    Switzerland
    JAL
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • migrants
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une femme migrante sans papiers qui, après avoir signalé une agression violente aux autorités suisses, a été condamnée pour séjour irrégulier et risque maintenant l'expulsion.
Alleged victims: 1
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03 Oct 2023
    28 Jul 2023
    Ethiopia
    JAL
  • executions
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged killing of three field humanitarian staff members of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), on 24 June 2021 in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and the lack of prompt, thorough, effective, impartial, independent and transparent investigations into these deaths.
Alleged victims: 3
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    27 Jul 2023
    France
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant les enfants de Mmes Priscilla Majani, Hanna Dam-Stokholm et Sophie Abida, qui ont été placés sous la garde de leurs pères respectifs par décision de justice, malgré des allégations crédibles d'abus sexuels et de violences incestueuses de leur part; et le traitement apparemment discriminatoire et les violences infligées à leurs mères, pour avoir tenté de protéger leurs enfants contre une telle prédation sexuelle. Nos inquiétudes sont renforcées par des rapports indiquant qu'il ne s'agit pas de cas isolés, mais qu'ils reflètent des préoccupations généralisées concernant le traitement des enfants et de leurs mères, au mépris des principes de précaution et de l'intérêt supérieur des enfants.
Alleged victims: 10
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26 Sep 2023
    25 Jul 2023
    Singapore
    JUA
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the risk of imminent execution of Mr. Mohd Aziz bin Hussain, a 56-year-old Malay Singaporean national, scheduled for 26 July 2023, and Ms. Saridewi Binte Djamani, a 45-year-old Singaporean national, scheduled for 28 July 2023, for drug related offenses that do not meet the threshold for “most serious crimes”. If carried out, Ms. Saridewi Binte Djamani would be the first woman to be executed in Singapore since 2004.
Alleged victims: 2
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18 Sep 2023
    25 Jul 2023
    Honduras
    JAL
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación sobre las muertes potencialmente ilícitas de al menos 46 mujeres privadas de libertad en la Penitenciaría Nacional Femenina de Adaptación Social (PNFAS) en Támara el 20 de junio de 2023.
Alleged victims: 46
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10 Oct 2023
    18 Jul 2023
    China
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • disappearances
  • migrants
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary detention of at least 2,000 individuals from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), among which approximately 70 percent are women, in China, and their risk of refoulement to the DPRK, which may put them at risk of serious human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killings.
Alleged victims: 2000
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13 Sep 2023
    05 Jul 2023
    Libya
    JAL
  • violence against women and girls
  • human rights defenders
  • privacy
  • religion or belief
  • women and girls
Information have received concerning the movement restrictions on Libyan women and girls travelling without mahram, or male companion.
Alleged victims: -
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    25 May 2023
    Tunisia
    JAL
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • terrorism
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information reçue concernant la situation précaire actuelle des juges et des avocats, qui semblent faire face à des schémas de harcèlement judiciaire, et sur les réseaux sociaux, sur la base des mesures prises après le décret-loi présidentiel 2022-11 (et sa modification par le décret-loi 2022-35), et le décret 2022-516.
Alleged victims: 11
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    22 May 2023
    Republic of Korea
    JAL
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the plan to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (henceforth, MOGEF).
Alleged victims: -
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21 Jul 2023
    18 May 2023
    Russian Federation
    JAL
  • violence against women and girls
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the sentencing of Ms. Irina Danilovich, to seven years of prison following her alleged arbitrary detention, and the ill-treatment to which she is being subjected to whilst in detention, all of which are reportedly in connection with her legitimate human rights work and the exercise of freedom of expression.
Alleged victims: 1
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    17 May 2023
    Peru
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con el presunto hostigamiento y estigmatización de la Defensora del Pueblo Eliana Revollar Añaños.
Alleged victims: 1
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16 Jul 2023
    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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    12 May 2023
    Canada
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning seven Canadian nationals, who include a mother and her six minor children, currently detained in Al Roj camp, in the North-East region of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Alleged victims: 7
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13 Jul 2023
    11 May 2023
    Türkiye
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • internally displaced persons
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the situation of children and women, mostly of refugee, asylum-seeking and minority background, including unaccompanied and separated children, who continue to face a heightened risk of abuse and exploitation including by being subjected to immigration detention, extortion, sale, child forced labour, trafficking, sexual exploitation, child forced marriage and other forms of gender-based violence against women and girls, in the aftermath of recent earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria.
Alleged victims: -
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10 Aug 2023
    10 May 2023
    United States of America
    JAL
  • violence against women and girls
  • disability
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • poverty
  • privacy
  • racism
  • religion or belief
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the grave and alarming deterioration in the access of women and girls to comprehensive sexual and reproductive healthcare, including abortion, following the United States Supreme Court decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and the direct and indirect violations of international human rights law as a result of the decision.
Alleged victims: 500000000
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30 Aug 2023
30 Aug 2023
30 Aug 2023
30 Aug 2023
30 Aug 2023
30 Aug 2023
30 Aug 2023
30 Aug 2023
30 Aug 2023
30 Aug 2023
    10 May 2023
    Iraq
    JAL
  • truth
  • justice
  • reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • minority issues
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged recent imposition of additional requirements for survivors to file a criminal complaint to be eligible for reparation under the Yazidi Survivors Law (YSL), and associated by-laws, addressed to victims of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from the Yazidi, Christian, Turkmen, and Shabak communities, which substantially impair the realizaiton of the rights of survivors to reparation as stipulated under the law and international standards.
Alleged victims: -
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    09 May 2023
    Brazil
    JAL
  • religion or belief
  • cultural rights
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • minority issues
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of systemic acts of violence, threats, harassment, and discrimination against Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous peoples in Mato Grosso do Sul, particularly women spiritual leaders, which appear to be related to the legitimate exercise of their rights to freedom of expression, freedom of religion or belief as well as their cultural rights.
Alleged victims: 6
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10 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023
29 Aug 2023
    02 May 2023
    Kyrgyzstan
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
Information received concerning credible reports that the Kyrgyz Parliament (Jogorku Kenesh) may be considering, in the coming days, the early dismissal of Ms. Atyr Abdrakhmatova, Ombudsperson (Akyikatchy) of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Alleged victims: 1
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    28 Apr 2023
    Haiti
    JAL
  • violence against women and girls
  • executions
  • health
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant l’exacerbation des attaques, des violences, y compris sexuelles, et de l’exploitation à grande échelle perpétrées par des gangs en Haïti, notamment à l’encontre les femmes et des enfants.
Alleged victims: 3000
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    28 Apr 2023
    Guatemala
    JOL
  • women and girls
  • health
  • violence against women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la iniciativa de ley 6153 (Ley de apoyo a la dignificación de la muerte gestacional), la cual presenta inconsistencias con los estándares internacionales de derechos humanos que afectan en particular los derechos de las mujeres y las niñas, y que incluye puntos que podrían vulnerar sus derechos humanos, incluidos el derecho a la vida, los derechos sexuales y reproductivos y al más alto nivel de salud física y mental. Lo anterior constituiría una contravención de las obligaciones internacionales de derechos humanos de la República de Guatemala. Habíamos previamente expresado nuestra preocupación sobre el tema del disfrute de la salud sexual y reproductiva de las mujeres en Guatemala (OL GTM 12/2018) y lamentamos no haber recibido respuesta del Gobierno de su Excelencia.
Alleged victims: -
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    27 Apr 2023
    Belarus
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • Belarus
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the conditions and treatment of detainees at the two penal colonies for women in Belarus, as well as in the Akrestina detention centre. Although the number of women detained in such dire conditions is allegedly larger, this communication focuses on the documented cases of seven women, detained and sentenced on what appear to be politically motivated charges, that suffered irreversible and sometimes life-threatening health deterioration in detention and denial of medical treatment, potentially amounting to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, namely: (1) Maria Kalesnikava, (2) Ksenia Lutskina, (3) Maria Rabkova, (4) Kanovalova Antonina, (5) Redacted, (6) Volha Zalatar, (7) Viktoryia Kulsha.
Alleged victims: 62
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    19 Apr 2023
    Italy
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women and girls
Information received, concerning allegations of medical negligence, during and after childbirth, and the resulting physical and mental health complications suffered by Ms. Regina Michele Tedsen.
Alleged victims: 1
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31 Jul 2023
    06 Apr 2023
    India
    JAL
  • older persons
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the failure to effectively address complaints of repeated domestic violence against Ms. Anastasia Pinto, in particular during the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, that led to the violation of her rights to be free from violence and to adequate standard of living, among others, to adequate housing.
Alleged victims: 1
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    06 Apr 2023
    Brazil
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • torture
Information received concerning intimidation of three women journalists and human rights defenders for covering a case of a girl victim of rape, whose sexual and reproductive health rights have reportedly been violated.
Alleged victims: 3
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    27 Mar 2023
    Guyana
    JAL
  • African Descent
  • cultural rights
  • development
  • education
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • housing
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • religion or belief
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received on the delicate and deteriorating situation of human rights of people of African descent in Guyana, who live on the fringes of society and suffer from numerous violations of their fundamental rights.
Alleged victims: 3
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09 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
25 May 2023
    13 Mar 2023
    TikTok
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Follow-up letter concerning the alleged role of Omegle in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct and it being shared on your platform (Tiktok).
Alleged victims: -
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    13 Mar 2023
    Omegle LCC
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Follow-up letter concerning the alleged role of Omegle in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct. Allegedly, Omegle has gained popularity after videos tagged with “Omegle” in Tiktok, a China-based company, have reportedly been viewed more than 9.4 billion times worldwide.
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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    10 Mar 2023
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • education
  • health
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the deliberate poisoning of more than 1200 schoolgirls since November 2022.
Alleged victims: 1200
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05 Sep 2023
    09 Mar 2023
    United Arab Emirates
    JAL
  • Myanmar
  • business
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • privacy
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning Telegram, specifically that its services are being used as a vehicle for the dissemination of hate speech and incitement to violence against pro-democracy actors in Myanmar.
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    09 Mar 2023
    Telegram Messenger LPP
    JAL
  • Myanmar
  • business
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • privacy
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning Telegram, specifically that its services are being used as a vehicle for the dissemination of hate speech and incitement to violence against pro-democracy actors in Myanmar.
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    01 Mar 2023
    Other actors
    JAL
  • truth
  • justice
  • reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • torture
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the extension of the deadline to submit requests for recognition of status as victim of sexual violence during the war under the “Draft law to amend and supplement the law no.04/l-054 for the status and rights of martyrs, disabled, veterans, participants of the Kosovo liberation army, persons violated during the war, civilian victims and their families, amended and supplemented by law no. 04/l-172”, currently being drafted by the Government, and take this opportunity to remind the Government that no statutes of limitations are applicable to the category of crimes constituting grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions or otherwise serious human rights violations.
Alleged victims: -
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01 May 2023
    07 Feb 2023
    Lebanon
    JAL
  • migrants
  • slavery
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant la nature exploitante du système de Kafala y compris l’exclusion de protection juridique des travailleurs domestiques migrants de la législation du travail libanais, ainsi que contre les violences basées sur le genre, y compris la discrimination, le harcèlement, et les abus sexuels envers les travailleuses domestiques migrantes.
Alleged victims: -
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05 Jun 2023
    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
    31 Jan 2023
    South Africa
    JOL
  • health
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the Sexual Offenses and Related Matters Amendment Bill, 2022 (hereinafter 2022 Amendment Bill), introduced at the National Assembly (proposed section 75), which intends to repeal the Sexual Offenses Act, 1957 (Act No. 23 of 1957) and the Criminal Law (Sexual Offenses and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (Act No. 32 of 2007). We welcome these positive developments aiming at decriminalizing sex work in South Africa.
Alleged victims: -
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    30 Jan 2023
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JUA
  • disappearances
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • minority issues
  • torture
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
information we have received concerning Ms. Elham Modarresi, Ms. Pouran Nazemi, Ms. Elham and Mr. Vahid Afkari, Mr. Younes Mashayekhi, Ms. Soha Mortezaei, Ms. Zhina Modares Gorji, Ms. Bahareh Hedayar, Mr. Saeid Madani. Ms. Mozhgan Kavusi, Ms. Raha Asgarizadeh, Ms. Alieh Motalebzadeh, Ms. Sepideh Qoliyan, and Ms. Narges Mohammadi.
Alleged victims: 16
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    25 Jan 2023
    Republic of Korea
    JOL
  • education
  • health
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • women and girls
Information received concerning attempts to abolish Student Human Rights Ordinances and Basic Human Rights Ordinances in the Seoul Metropolitan Council and the Chungcheongnam-do Council, which prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Information was also received regarding announced plans to remove references to 'sexual minority', 'gender equality' and 'reproductive rights' from the school curriculum.
Alleged victims: -
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    24 Jan 2023
    Tunisia
    JAL
  • violence against women and girls
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant le harcèlement et la campagne d’intimidation menée à l’encontre de madame Hasna Ben Slimane, juge tunisienne, ex-membre du conseil de l’ISIE, ancienne ministre chargée de la Fonction Publique et ancienne ministre de la Justice par intérim, dans un contexte politique de mise à mal de l’indépendance du pouvoir judiciaire en Tunisie. Hasna Ben Slimane fut membre du gouvernement de Hichem Mechichi du 2 septembre 2020 au 25 juillet 2021.
Alleged victims: 1
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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
    23 Dec 2022
    Kyrgyzstan
    JUA
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the arbitrary arrest and pre-trial detention of peaceful protesters, human rights defenders, climate activists and journalists, including women, seemingly for the legitimate exercise of their rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; the authorities’ alleged and repeated refusal to ensure adequate access to healthcare of those detained reported to be in critical health conditions; and house searches that were carried out without a warrant or a court order.
Alleged victims: 1
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26 Dec 2022
    22 Dec 2022
    Pakistan
    JAL
  • housing
  • health
  • internally displaced persons
  • poverty
  • women and girls
Information received concerning ongoing forced evictions and home demolitions along Karachi’s nullahs that are allegedly taking place in the context of climate change adaptation, against the backdrop of the severe impacts caused by the monsoon rains. The evictions and home demolitions are being carried out without consultation with the affected people and in the absence of a rehabilitation plan, with provision of disparate and inadequate compensation.
Alleged victims: 1
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    22 Dec 2022
    Armenia
    JOL
  • disability
  • health
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning a draft Decree presented by the Republic of Armenia’s Ministry of Health to update the procedure and conditions of ‘voluntary’ medical sterilization, and which may replace the current Decree N. 425 of the Government of 6 July 1998.
Alleged victims: -
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13 Mar 2023
    19 Dec 2022
    China
    JAL
  • terrorism
  • business
  • cultural rights
  • disappearances
  • education
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • religion or belief
  • slavery
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Follow-up on our engagement the Chinese Government since 2017, in particular regarding the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). We thank the Government for the detailed responses provided to some of our communications and the information received through the China Human Rights Newsletter that your representation in Geneva shares with different stakeholders, including Special Procedures.
Alleged victims: -
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07 Mar 2023
    08 Dec 2022
    Tunisia
    JOL
  • women and girls
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Informations reçues concernant le décret-loi no 2022-55 du 15 septembre 2022 (ci-après, « décret-loi ») portant révision de la loi organique no 2014-16, relative aux élections, et au référendum. Le décret loi a modifié le système électoral, essentiellement en remplaçant le système électoral proportionnel plurinominal par un système électoral uninominal, abolissant le système de représentation proportionnelle des femmes (quotas), ainsi qu’en introduisant de nouvelles règles d’inscription des candidats et des électeurs. Ce récent décret a également amendé le cadre régissant le financement des campagnes électorales et introduit le principe du retrait possible de mandat aux parlementaires élus. Les amendements concernent uniquement l'élection de l'Assemblée des représentants du peuple (ARP) et ne couvrent pas l'élection de l'Assemblée nationale des districts et des régions - la chambre supplémentaire introduite par la nouvelle Constitution - qui serait composée sur la base des résultats des élections régionales, régies par la loi électorale existante mais qui devrait être modifiée par un décret ultérieur.
Alleged victims: -
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    07 Dec 2022
    Mr. Muttaqi
    JAL
  • Afghanistan
  • education
  • executions
  • health
  • minority issues
  • religion or belief
  • terrorism
  • truth
  • justice
  • reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the attack against the Kaaj Educational Center mainly targeting members of the Hazara minority. We are concerned that should this attack not be investigated properly and preventive measures not put in place, such attacks may continue to take place in the future, claiming many more lives and depriving children and young people of their right to education.
Alleged victims: -
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12 Jan 2023
    05 Dec 2022
    Ecuador
    JOL
  • women and girls
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la ley orgánica que garantiza la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo para las niñas, adolescentes y mujeres en caso de violación, y que incluye puntos que vulnerarían derechos humanos de las mujeres y adolescentes, incluidos el derecho a la vida, derechos sexuales y reproductivos y al más alto nivel de salud física y mental, contraviniendo estándares y obligaciones internacionales de derechos humanos de la República de Ecuador. Habíamos previamente expresado nuestra preocupación sobre el tema del disfrute de la salud sexual y reproductiva de las mujeres en Ecuador (ECU 3/2013) y agradecemos a su Gobierno por la respuesta
Alleged victims: -
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14 Dec 2022
    02 Dec 2022
    Yemen
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • cultural rights
  • education
  • health
  • religion or belief
  • violence against women and girls
Information concerning the mass civilian harm caused by the Ansar Allah movement (or the Houthi movement, the de facto authority in Sana'a and northern Yemen), in particular in relation to the systematic violations of women’s and girls’ rights in the context of the armed conflict including the restriction of women travelling without a male guardian (mahram), prevention of access to reproductive health care, prevention from working, gender segregation in public spaces and the reinforcement of discriminatory misogynistic attitudes .
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    02 Dec 2022
    Mr. Hisham Sharaf.
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • cultural rights
  • education
  • health
  • religion or belief
  • violence against women and girls
Information concerning the mass civilian harm caused by the Ansar Allah movement (or the Houthi movement, the de facto authority in Sana'a and northern Yemen), in particular in relation to the systematic violations of women’s and girls’ rights in the context of the armed conflict including the restriction of women travelling without a male guardian (mahram), prevention of access to reproductive health care, prevention from working, gender segregation in public spaces and the reinforcement of discriminatory misogynistic attitudes .
Alleged victims: -
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20 Feb 2023
    01 Dec 2022
    China
    JAL
  • disappearances
  • arbitrary Detention
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of denial of legal assistance, torture and ill-treatment, incommunicado detention and enforced disappearance of Ms. Xueqin Huang, Mr. Jianbing Wang, Ms. Fangmei He, Mr. Maodong Yang and Mr. Jitian Tang; and that with the exception of one of these 5 cases, at the time of writing this letter the families of these persons have not received accurate and official information regarding their whereabouts, their health status and well-being, and have not been allowed full and unrestricted access to the detainees after they were detained.
Alleged victims: 5
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10 Jan 2023
    28 Nov 2022
    Azerbaijan
    JAL
  • executions
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning alleged unlawful killings of Armenian Prisoners of War and civilians, as well as torture and ill-treatment of Armenian Prisoners of War, by Azerbaijani armed forces and the desecration of bodies of dead Armenian soldiers, including women, during renewed fighting along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border commencing on 13 September 2022. We are also concerned about reports that Armenian prisoners of war have not been provided with prompt and adequate medical assistance, allegedly resulting in their deaths.
Alleged victims: -
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21 Feb 2023
    25 Nov 2022
    Indonesia
    JOL
  • women and girls
  • cultural rights
  • health
  • religion or belief
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women and girls
Information received regarding the proposed amendments to the Indonesian Criminal Code, Rivisi Kitab Undang-undang Hukum Pidana (RKUHP) that would further criminalize abortion, discriminate against women and girls, religious or belief minorities and LGBT persons, punish extramarital sex and live-in relationships and hamper the freedoms of expression, religion or belief and association.
Alleged victims: -
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14 Feb 2023
    24 Nov 2022
    Croatia
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • health
  • violence against women and girls
Information received concerning lack of access to abortion services guaranteed by law: the case of Ms. Mirela Čavajda.
Alleged victims: 1
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23 Jan 2023
31 Jan 2023
    23 Nov 2022
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JUA
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the arrest and detention of human rights defender, Ms. Pouran Nazemi, her subsequent ill-treatment, critical health condition and medical neglect.
Alleged victims: 1
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22 Feb 2023
    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
    Nicaragua
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la denegación de entrada a Nicaragua supuestamente impuesta a la Sra. Anexa Brendalee Alfred Cunningham, de nacionalidad nicaragüense, después que la defensora de derechos humanos y de los derechos de los pueblos indígenas viajó a Ginebra (Suiza), en julio 2022, en misión oficial como parte del Mecanismo de Expertos sobre los derechos de los pueblos indígenas de la ONU.
Alleged victims: 1
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    01 Nov 2022
    Brazil
    JAL
  • violence against women and girls
  • health
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the continued legal use of the concept of parental alienation and similar variations through Law No. 12,318 and its regular application to cases of domestic violence and abuse in a way that penalizes the mother of the child. The instrumentalization of parental alienation and related or similar concepts increasingly interferes with judicial decisions about guardianship while infringing mothers’ and children’s right to safety and protection.
Alleged victims: 30
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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: -
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19 Apr 2023
    26 Oct 2022
    Pakistan
    JAL
  • minority issues
  • religion or belief
  • sale of children
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the practice of forced conversions and marriages affecting women and girls from religious minorities, with particular reference to the cases of 5 individuals, members of the Christian and Hindu communities in Pakistan ranging in age from 13 to 20 at the time of their abductions, who have reportedly been forcibly converted to Islam and married against their will. In six out of seven of these cases, the victim was reportedly underage at the time of their forced marriage, and the consent of their legal guardians was not provided. These individual cases are not exceptions, but are indicative of a wider phenomenon throughout the country.
Alleged victims: 7
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    20 Oct 2022
    Permanent Delegation of the European Union
    JOL
  • violence against women and girls
  • health
  • sale of children
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the draft proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating violence against women and domestic violence.
Alleged victims: -
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    20 Oct 2022
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JUA
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • minority issues
  • torture
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning ongoing excessive and lethal use of force by Iranian security forces against protesters demonstrating in response to the death of Mahsa Amini on 16 September 2022, who died after she was detained by the Gasht-e-Ershad (Guidance Patrol) for allegedly not complying with Iran’s compulsory veiling laws. The information refers to a continuous crackdown on civil society by the Iranian authorities, the use of live ammunitions against protesters, sexual and gender-based violence against women, arbitrary arrests, torture, extrajudicial executions and other unlawful killings, as well as the disruption of the Internet, preventing access to and the sharing of information on the protests.
Alleged victims: 3
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    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
    03 Oct 2022
    Saudi Arabia
    JAL
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • migrants
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information we have received concerning allegations of cross-border artillery shelling and small arms fire allegedly by Saudi security forces causing the deaths of up to 430 and injuring 650 migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, in Sa'dah governorate, Yemen, and Jizan province, Saudi Arabia, between 1 January and 30 April 2022. These events appear to occur as part of a series of gross human rights violations against migrants, including torture, arbitrary detention, trafficking in person, and sexual abuse, in the adjacent border region in Yemen. It is alleged that neither the Saudi nor the Yemeni authorities have launched effective investigations to clarify the circumstances of these events and the deaths caused.
Alleged victims: 430
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02 Dec 2022
02 Mar 2023
    03 Oct 2022
    Mr. Hisham Sharaf
    JAL
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • migrants
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of cross-border artillery shelling and small arms fire allegedly by Saudi security forces causing the deaths of up to 430 and injuring 650 migrants, including refugees and asylum seekers, in Sa'dah governorate, Yemen, and Jizan province, Saudi Arabia, between 1 January and 30 April 2022. These events appear to occur as part of a series of gross human rights violations against migrants, including torture, arbitrary detention, trafficking in person, and sexual abuse, in the adjacent border region in Yemen. It is alleged that neither the Saudi nor the de facto Yemeni authorities have launched effective investigations to clarify the circumstances of these events and the deaths caused.
Alleged victims: 430
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    23 Sep 2022
    Malawi
    JUA
  • executions
  • albinism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • health
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the imposition of death penalty in the case of Ms. Sofia Jere, following trial proceedings which have allegedly failed to adequately consider Ms. Jere´s experience of gender-based violence, including sexual abuse, as well as her intellectual disability and allegedly deteriorating mental health condition.
Alleged victims: 1
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    23 Sep 2022
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the detention of four women human rights defenders, members of The Call of the Iranian Women NGO.
Alleged victims: 4
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28 Nov 2022
    22 Sep 2022
    India
    JAL
  • violence against women and girls
  • cultural rights
  • human rights defenders
  • minority issues
  • privacy
  • religion or belief
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the systematic and serious risk of gender-based violence online that three Indian women belonging to the Muslim religious minority have been experiencing.
Alleged victims: 3
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    20 Sep 2022
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged denial of the enjoyment of human rights to life; liberty and security of person, including freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention; freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; the right to a fair trial; and the right to freedom from discrimination on the basis of political or other opinion, sex, or other status, including sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.
Alleged victims: 2
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08 Feb 2023
14 Apr 2023
    15 Sep 2022
    Iraq
    JAL
  • truth
  • justice
  • reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • minority issues
  • terrorism
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged failure of the Iraqi Government to conduct prompt, impartial and effective investigations into the disappearances and potentially unlawful deaths of victims of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and to criminally prosecute and sanction the perpetrators of those crimes and to provide full reparation to victims, in line with international standards.
Alleged victims: -
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    29 Aug 2022
    Sudan
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • truth
  • justice
  • reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Information concerning the repeated allegations of sexual harassment and sexual abuse by the security forces against women and girls in the context of peaceful demonstrations, as well as of the continuous allegations of killing and injuring of individuals due to the use of unlawful and excessive force against peaceful protesters, and the use of lethal force; alleged arbitrary detention of activists, human rights defenders and individuals associated with the demonstrations, including of children; attacks on medical facilities obstructing the injured protesters access to health; and prolonged internet shutdowns to prevent access to information ahead of and during demonstrations. Additionally, we would like to bring to your attention concerns related to the increase of sexual and gender-based violence against women in the conflict affected-areas, as the insecurity has increased since the military coup of 25 October 2021 in Sudan. We are concerned that these continuous violations, conducted with impunity, in addition to constituting serious human rights violations, also severely restrict the civic space and create a hostile environment for the participation in public affairs, especially for women and girls.
Alleged victims: 1
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    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
    22 Aug 2022
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JOL
  • violence against women and girls
  • migrants
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Letter addressed to the UK following their decision to ratify the Istanbul Convention while entering a reservation to its Article 59 on migrant women, which infringes their commitments to CEDAW.
Alleged victims: -
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11 Jan 2023
    12 Aug 2022
    Nicaragua
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • older persons
  • terrorism
  • violence against women and girls
  • women and girls
Información recibida relación con las defensoras de derechos humanos privadas de la libertad Sra. Nidia Lorena Barbosa Castillo, Sra. Rusia Evelyn Pinto Centeno y Sra. María Esperanza Sánchez García, que se encuentran en grave estado de salud y cuya vida podría correr peligro si no reciben atención médica especializada urgente. Su detención y el acceso estrechamente limitado a la atención médica se producirían en el contexto más amplio de condiciones carcelarias inadecuadas de personas detenidas arbitrariamente en Nicaragua.
Alleged victims: 3
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    29 Jul 2022
    Ukraine
    JAL
  • disability
  • health
  • internally displaced persons
  • sale of children
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the situation of children living in institutions, including children with disabilities, in Ukraine, and particularly in the context of the current and ongoing humanitarian emergency, following the unlawful invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022.
Alleged victims: -
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    26 Jul 2022
    Libya
    JUA
  • violence against women and girls
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary detention and mistreatment of Ms. Iftikhar Boudra.
Alleged victims: 1
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    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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    19 Jul 2022
    Pakistan
    JOL
  • violence against women
  • health
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill, 2021 that has been tabled before Parliament and is now under consideration of the Council of Islamic Ideology.
Alleged victims: -
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    06 Jul 2022
    Sudan
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
Information regarding the intimidation and harassment of woman human rights defender working to combat violence against women, Ms. Sulaima Ishaq Al-Khalifa, which may be in reprisal for her cooperation with UN in the field of human rights.
Alleged victims: 1
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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
    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
    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
02 Sep 2022
02 Sep 2022
02 Sep 2022
02 Sep 2022
02 Sep 2022
    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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    24 Jun 2022
    Sudan
    JAL
  • disappearances
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
Information serious allegations of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment of hundreds of peaceful protesters, human rights defenders and people with a perceived affiliation with the opposition to the military coup of 25 October 2021.
Alleged victims: -
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    21 Jun 2022
    India
    JAL
  • cultural rights
  • religion or belief
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning an order of the Karnataka State’s Government and subsequent ruling of the Supreme Court of Karnataka State allowing Pre-University Colleges (PUCs) to prohibit women and girl students from wearing hijab. We are concerned that both the order and the ruling may fail to meet India’s obligations under international human rights law.
Alleged victims: -
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    20 Jun 2022
    Brazil
    JAL
  • executions
  • African Descent
  • disappearances
  • racism
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged killings of 69 individuals and enforced disappearance of three individuals, reportedly by members of law enforcement including in the course of police operations and in custody, in the period from 1999 to 2020. Whilst the reported cases demonstrate the systemic and sustained nature of the excessive and lethal use of force by Brazilian security forces, they do not represent all those affected by such patterns of alleged human rights abuses.
Alleged victims: 72
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06 Sep 2022
06 Sep 2022
06 Sep 2022
    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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    10 Jun 2022
    Nigeria
    JUA
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • older persons
  • sale of children
  • terrorism
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the abduction of 62 passengers from the Abuja -Kaduna train on 28 March 2022 by individuals allegedly belonging to a non-state armed group and the alleged lack of operational and investigative measures taken by state authorities to protect their lives.
Alleged victims: 26
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    10 Jun 2022
    Nepal
    JAL
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • education
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • privacy
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged denial of fundamental right to education, the right to privacy, the right to freedom of expression and the denial of the recognition of the gender identity.
Alleged victims: 1
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    10 Jun 2022
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • health
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary detention and denial of adequate health care to Ms. Soada Khadirzadeh, an individual from the Kurdish minority who is held in pretrial detention.
Alleged victims: 1
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28 Jul 2022
    26 May 2022
    El Salvador
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con el asesinato de la defensora de los derechos humanos Elizabeth de León.
Alleged victims: 1
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28 Jul 2022
    18 May 2022
    United Republic of Tanzania
    JUA
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • health
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the mandatory imposition of the death penalty for murder in the case of Ms. Chausiku Nchama Magoiga, following trial proceedings in which mitigating circumstances relating to her experience of domestic and gender-based violence and the fact that her husband's death was due to self-defense do not appear to have been adequately considered.
Alleged victims: 1
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    05 May 2022
    Israel
    JOL
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • cultural rights
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • minority issues
  • Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
  • privacy
  • racism
  • women and girls
Information received concerning Counter-Terrorism Law 5776-2016 and related regulations and orders.
Alleged victims: -
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    29 Apr 2022
    Honduras
    JAL
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con las alegaciones de femicidio agravado de la Sra. Keyla Martínez mientras estaba bajo custodia policial el 7 de febrero de 2021, la falta de investigaciones rápidas y exhaustivas relativas a su muerte, y actos de intimidación y amenazas contra personas asociadas a ella, incluyendo personas defensoras de derechos humanos y periodistas.
Alleged victims: 1
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    14 Apr 2022
    Brazil
    JAL
  • racism
  • African Descent
  • housing
  • internally displaced persons
  • migrants
  • poverty
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of human rights violations against migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. The information we have received raises concerns that discriminatory policies and practices against migrants, refugees and asylum seekers violate your Government’s domestic law and its obligations under international law, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (the Palermo Protocol), and the international standards contained in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA). We are alarmed by reports that systemic racial discrimination and racist violence against migrants, refugees and asylum seekers have been exacerbated in recent years, with this regression accelerated by the public and private response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alleged victims: -
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26 Sep 2022
    07 Apr 2022
    Uzbekistan
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • women and girls
Information concerning information we have received concerning the reported smear campaign against, and arbitrary detention and criminalisation of Ms. Karomat Ashirova and Ms. Zukhra Abdurakhmanova, which are reportedly related to their human rights activities, as well as searches in their homes and seizure of documents reportedly proving human rights violations.
Alleged victims: 2
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22 Jun 2022
    07 Apr 2022
    Poland
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • violence against women
Information received concerning the imminent court hearing of Ms. Justyna Wydrzyńska, a woman human rights defender facing criminal charges for assisting a victim of gender-based violence in obtaining a voluntary termination of her pregnancy through medication. This unprecedented hearing is scheduled to take place on Friday 8 April 2022 in Warsaw.
Alleged victims: 1
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31 May 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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    31 Mar 2022
    United States of America
    JUA
  • executions
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information concerning the imminent execution of Ms. Melissa Lucio, scheduled to take place on 27 April 2022 in the State of Texas, following judicial proceedings that resulted in an allegedly hasty conviction based on inconclusive evidence and that failed to adequately address her lifetime experience of abuse, including gender-based violence.
Alleged victims: 1
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    17 Mar 2022
    Mexico
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
información recibida en relación con los alegatos de investigaciones penales y otros actos de intimidación y represalia por cooperar con las Naciones Unidas en la esfera de los derechos humanos en México, en contra de Salvador Leyva Morelos Zaragoza, Verónica Jazmín Berber Calle y Elvira Claudia Mejía Hernández, en particular, por haberse desempeñado como defensores de los derechos humanos de la Sra. Brenda Quevedo ante el Grupo de Trabajo sobre la Detención Arbitraria y por haber ejercido acciones destinadas a la implementación de la opinión 45/2020.
Alleged victims: 3
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10 Oct 2022
    14 Mar 2022
    World Health Organisation
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • health
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the inadequate response by the World Health Organization (WHO) to allegations of sexual exploitation and abuses during the 10th Ebola response in North Kivu and Ituri, the Democratic Republic of the Congo from August 2018 to June 2020 that may have prevented a fair and thorough investigation of crimes of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse, allegedly committed by persons who are WHO personnel and contractors and may have weakened the accountability for these crimes allowing perpetrators of these crimes to go unpunished.
Alleged victims: -
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20 May 2022
    02 Mar 2022
    International Monetary Fund
    JOL
  • foreign debt
  • development
  • poverty
  • women and girls
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 's development of an institutional strategy on gender, and the information made public on the Consultation Concept Note dated 10 February 2022.
Alleged victims: -
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    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
    11 Feb 2022
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JOL
  • racism
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Concerns about the Nationality and Borders Bill and, specifically, the recently introduced Clause 9 on notice of decision to deprive a person of citizenship. We would like to highlight the concerns arising in relation to Clause 9 and its compliance with the State’s obligations under international human rights law.
Alleged victims: -
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05 May 2022
    10 Feb 2022
    Liberia
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the abduction of a 16-year old girl by traditional leaders of the Sande secret society for forceful initiation, which included being subjected to female genital mutilation.
Alleged victims: 5
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    09 Feb 2022
    Nepal
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • health
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • truth
  • justice
  • reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of sexual violence perpetrated in 2001 by State agents, in the context of the armed conflict in Nepal (1996-2006), while the victim was 13 years old, and the failure to investigate, prosecute and punish any perpetrators in connection with these crimes, or to provide redress.
Alleged victims: 1
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    09 Feb 2022
    India
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • minority issues
  • religion or belief
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged repeated attacks against woman human rights defender, Ms. Bindu Ammini, due to her attempts and successes in entering the Sabarimala Temple.
Alleged victims: 1
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02 Aug 2022
    04 Feb 2022
    Sudan
    JUA
  • torture
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
Information received concerning Ms. Amira Osman, a Sudanese women’s rights activist, who has been arbitrarily arrested in Khartoum, on 22 January 2022, and ever since subjected to enforced disappearance with no information on her fate or whereabouts.
Alleged victims: 1
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11 Mar 2022
    03 Feb 2022
    India
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • minority issues
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the intimidation of and threats against by Ms. Meena Kotwal, a Dalit journalist and woman human rights defender working and reporting on human rights issues.
Alleged victims: 1
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    11 Jan 2022
    Belarus
    JAL
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Belarus
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of Olga Gorbunova, publicly known for her work as a women’s human rights defender.
Alleged victims: 1
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    27 Dec 2021
    Israel
    JAL
  • business
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
  • privacy
  • terrorism
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received that Pegasus spyware developed by NSO Group Technologies (the NSO Group) was identified in at least six devices belonging to staff members of Palestinian non-governmental organizations only two weeks after the designation of these organizations as “terrorist associations by your Excellency’s Government.
Alleged victims: 6
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    23 Dec 2021
    Guatemala
    JUA
  • women and girls
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women
Información recibida en relación con una sentencia judicial alarmante basada en estereotipos y prejuicios de género en el caso de una mujer víctima de delito sexual (Caso N°2067-2021-01633 / Juzgado de Turno de Primera Instancia Penal de Delitos de Feminicidio y otras Formas de Violencia Contra la Mujer y Violencia Sexual del departamento de Guatemala).
Alleged victims: 1
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21 Feb 2022
    17 Dec 2021
    Timor-Leste
    JAL
  • privacy
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the reading of a judicial decision in a case of sexual violence against girls, expected to take place on 21 December, which would expose the identities of the victims.
Alleged victims: 14
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    16 Dec 2021
    India
    JOL
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill 2021 and its compliance with the State’s obligations under international law to prevent trafficking in persons, assist and protect trafficked persons without discrimination, ensuring gender equality and promoting the human rights of trafficked persons.
Alleged victims: -
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05 Jan 2022
    15 Dec 2021
    Uganda
    JAL
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • arbitrary Detention
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the arbitrary arrest and detention of 29 persons in Uganda (16 in Kyengera and 13 in Nansana), followed by violations of their right to health and freedom from torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Alleged victims: 62
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    10 Dec 2021
    Dominican Republic
    JUA
  • migrants
  • health
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación a alegaciones de arrestos y deportaciones masivos de mujeres haitianas embarazadas y en período de lactancia, sin tener en cuenta sus vulnerabilidades específicas.
Alleged victims: 79
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27 Jan 2022
21 Feb 2022
    08 Dec 2021
    Netherlands
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • racism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the need to protect the rights of a Dutch citizen, currently detained in Al-Hawl camp in the North-East region of the Syrian Arab Republic at least since 12 March 2019.
Alleged victims: 1
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07 Feb 2022
    29 Nov 2021
    Ethiopia
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • executions
  • health
  • internally displaced persons
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received on widespread rape and other forms of gender based violence against women and girls by members of the Ethiopian National Defense Force, the Eritrean Defense Force, Tigrayan Forces, Tigrayan militias, the Amhara Regional/Special Force, and Fano militia an informal Amhara militia group in the context of the armed conflict in the Tigray region since November 2020, and later in neighbouring Ahmara and Afar regions.
Alleged victims: 2
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15 Feb 2022
    29 Nov 2021
    Eritrea
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • Eritrea
  • executions
  • health
  • internally displaced persons
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received on widespread rape and other forms of gender based violence against women and girls by members of the Eritrean Defense Force in the context of the armed conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia since November 2020.
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
    24 Nov 2021
    Spain
    JAL
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con alegaciones de discriminación de género y de violación del principio del interés superior del niño en un caso de violencia doméstica y posible abuso sexual infantil.
Alleged victims: 2
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27 Jan 2022
    22 Nov 2021
    Viet Nam
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • religion or belief
  • torture
  • women and girls
Follow up on previous communications sent to the Governement on the long term detention, alleged arbitrary detention and sentencing of human rights defenders.
Alleged victims: 43
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13 Jan 2022
26 Jun 2023
    05 Nov 2021
    Ireland
    JOL
  • disappearances
  • sale of children
  • slavery
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • truth
  • justice
  • reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill, the General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill and the proposed Restorative Recognition Scheme.
Alleged victims: -
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09 Nov 2021
09 Nov 2021
09 Nov 2021
    29 Oct 2021
    Brazil
    JAL
  • racism
  • African Descent
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of incidents of political violence against Afro-Brazilian women, particularly transgender Afro-Brazilian women, in Brazil.
Alleged victims: 3
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31 Jan 2022
    19 Oct 2021
    Brazil
    JOL
  • health
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning a bill introduced to provide menstrual hygiene products to low-income women and girls, as well as those deprived of liberty, which was passed in Congress but vetoed by the President.
Alleged victims: -
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    21 Sep 2021
    Malaysia
    OL
  • women and girls
Information received indicating retrogressive steps taken by the Government of Malaysia concerning a ground-breaking ruling from the Kuala Lumpur High Court which granted women equal nationality rights.
Alleged victims: -
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30 Sep 2021
15 Feb 2022
    16 Sep 2021
    Bahrain
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • migrants
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the expulsion imposed on Ms. Buthaina Ahmad, in connection with the exercise of her right to freedom of opinion and expression.
Alleged victims: 1
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09 Nov 2021
    10 Sep 2021
    United States of America
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • arbitrary Detention
  • health
  • violence against women
Information received concerning a recently enacted law severely limiting access to abortion in Texas. Similar attempts to restrict women’s sexual and reproductive rights in Texas and other states were already brought to your Government’s attention by the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls in the report on its visit to the United States (A/HRC/32/44/Add.2) and previous communications (USA 4/2015, OL USA 8/2017 and AL USA 11/2020).
Alleged victims: -
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    23 Aug 2021
    Japan
    JOL
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the lack of necessary legislation to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse (LGBT) persons from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Alleged victims: -
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22 Oct 2021
    17 Aug 2021
    Cambodia
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • Cambodia
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary arrest of and charges against 7 environmental rights defenders and members of Mother Nature Cambodia.
Alleged victims: 9
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27 Sep 2021
    09 Aug 2021
    Ghana
    JOL
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • arbitrary Detention
  • education
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the tabling of a bill entitled “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, 2021” before the Parliament of Ghana. According to information at our disposal, the first reading of the bill took place on 2 August. The consideration of the bill is expected to resume in October, after Parliamentary recess and public engagement.
Alleged victims: -
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    04 Aug 2021
    Samoa
    JAL
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged failure of the executive branch of power to comply with certain judicial orders issued by the Supreme Court in relation to ongoing election disputes.
Alleged victims: -
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    03 Aug 2021
    Israel
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • housing
  • minority issues
  • Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the arrests, judicial harassment, criminalisation and threats against human rights defenders in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel.
Alleged victims: 8
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    19 Jul 2021
    Nicaragua
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida sobre los alegatos de acoso por parte de los autoridades en perjuicio de los miembros de la entonces Fundación Violeta Barrios de Chamorros, supuestamente por la actividad política que desempeña su ex directora; el periódico Confidencial por la presión a los medios periodísticos durante el proceso electoral; así como a Juan Sebastián Chamorro García, por su actividad política en contra del Gobierno.
Alleged victims: 5
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    15 Jul 2021
    Kazakhstan
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the harassment, intimidation and alleged arbitrary detention of human rights defenders Gulzada Serzhan and Zhanar Sekerbayeva.
Alleged victims: 3
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10 Sep 2021
    30 Jun 2021
    Ukraine
    JAL
  • disability
  • arbitrary Detention
  • education
  • housing
  • older persons
  • poverty
  • sale of children
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the situation of persons with disabilities in institutions, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alleged victims: -
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11 Nov 2021
    25 Jun 2021
    Nicaragua
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida sobre los alegatos de detención arbitraria y violencia física en contra de la señora Francys Valdivia Machado y otras integrantes de la Asociación Madres de Abril, en el municipio de Estelí en Nicaragua, al igual que las detenciones, hostigamientos y declaraciones por parte del Gobierno en perjuicio de miembros del CENIDH.
Alleged victims: 1
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    24 Jun 2021
    Afghanistan
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • cultural rights
  • violence against women
Information received concerning the lack of meaningful participation of women in the recent rounds of Afghanistan peace negotiations.
Alleged victims: -
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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
    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
    10 Jun 2021
    Morocco
    JUA
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • torture
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant les allégations d'agressions physiques et sexuelles, de harcèlement, de menaces et de raids que les journalistes et les défenseurs des droits de l'homme qui défendent le droit à l'autodétermination du peuple du Sahara occidental, et les membres de l'organisation ISACOM (Organe Sahraoui contre l'Occupation Marocaine) ont subi depuis novembre 2020, et l'escalade notable de ce harcèlement depuis lors.
Alleged victims: 14
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16 Sep 2021
    10 Jun 2021
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • religion or belief
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the imprisonment of Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and woman human rights defender, in connection with her work in defence of human rights, including on legal cases defending women and girls criminalised for protesting compulsory veiling laws, and the related harassment of her husband, Mr. Reza Khandan.
Alleged victims: 2
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09 Aug 2021
    10 Jun 2021
    El Salvador
    JAL
  • executions
  • disappearances
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information recivida en relación con el reciente hallazgo de entierros clandestinos, incluyendo fosas comunes, con los restos de al menos catorce personas en la vivienda de un exagente de la Policía Nacional Civil (PNC). Se presume que el total de cuerpos en las fosas sería mayor. Once personas han sido ya detenidas en relación al caso y acusadas de nueve feminicidios y cinco homicidios agravados. De las víctimas encontradas, la mayoría son mujeres, incluyendo niñas. Preliminarmente se conoció que las víctimas presentaban signos de violencia, incluyendo agresión sexual.
Alleged victims: 14
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23 Aug 2021
    07 Jun 2021
    Zheijang Xianju Pharmaceutical
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Information received concerning your company’s involvement in a situation of violation of the rights to sexual and reproductive health of women and girls in Chile, in particular in relation to the distribution of contraceptive pills with defects in their composition.
Alleged victims: 84
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    07 Jun 2021
    United States of America
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Information received concerning a situation of violation of the rights to sexual and reproductive health of women and girls in Chile, in particular in relation to the distribution of contraceptive pills with defects in their composition. One of the companies involved, Merck Sharp & Dohme (I.A.), is based in your country.
Alleged victims: 84
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    07 Jun 2021
    Merck Sharp& Dohme (I.A)
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Information received concerning your company’s alleged involvement in a situation of violation of the rights to sexual and reproductive health of women and girls in Chile, in particular in relation to the distribution of contraceptive pills with errors in their composition.
Alleged victims: 84
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01 Jul 2021
06 Aug 2021
    07 Jun 2021
    Laboratorios Silesia S.A.
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Información recibida en relación con la presunta implicación por parte de su empresa en la distribución de pastillas anticonceptivas con errores de composición.
Alleged victims: 84
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02 Aug 2021
    07 Jun 2021
    Laboratorios Andrómaco S.A.
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Información recibida en relación con la presunta implicación por parte de su empresa en la distribución de pastillas anticonceptivas con errores de composición.
Alleged victims: 84
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02 Aug 2021
    07 Jun 2021
    Grünenthal Group
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Information received regarding a situation of violation of the rights to sexual and reproductive health of women and girls in Chile, in particular in relation to the distribution of contraceptive pills with errors in their composition. One of the companies involved is based/operating in your country.
Alleged victims: 84
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24 Jun 2021
02 Aug 2021
    07 Jun 2021
    Germany
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Information received concerning a situation of violation of the rights to sexual and reproductive health of women and girls in Chile, in particular in relation to the distribution of contraceptive pills with defects in their composition. One of the companies involved, Laboratorios Andrómaco, a sudubsidiary of Grünenthal Group, is based in your country.
Alleged victims: 84
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04 Aug 2021
    07 Jun 2021
    Eurofarma Laboratorios S.A.
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Information received concerning you company’s involvement in a situation of violation of the rights to sexual and reproductive health of women and girls in Chile, in particular in relation to the distribution of contraceptive pills with defects in their composition.
Alleged victims: 84
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    07 Jun 2021
    China
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Information received concerning a situation of violation of the rights to sexual and reproductive health of women and girls in Chile, in particular in relation to the distribution of contraceptive pills with defects in their composition. One of the companies involved, Zheijiang Xianju Pharmaceutical, is based in your country.
Alleged victims: 84
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06 Aug 2021
    07 Jun 2021
    Chile
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Información recibida en relación con la violación sistemática del derecho a la salud sexual y reproductiva de las mujeres y niñas en Chile, en particular en relación con la distribución de pastillas anticonceptivas con errores de composición.
Alleged victims: 84
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06 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021
25 Aug 2021
    07 Jun 2021
    Brazil
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • business
  • health
Information received concerning a situation of violation of the rights to sexual and reproductive health of women and girls in Chile, in particular in relation to the distribution of contraceptive pills with defects in their composition. One of the companies involved, Eurofarma Laboratorios S.A, is based/operating in your country.
Alleged victims: 84
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09 Aug 2021
13 Aug 2021
    02 Jun 2021
    Ghana
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arrest and arbitrary detention of 21 persons defending the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse (LGBT) persons in Ho, Ghana.
Alleged victims: 21
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13 Aug 2021
    01 Jun 2021
    Mexico
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • indigenous peoples
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con violaciones graves de derechos humanos cometidos en el periodo electoral, las cuales constituyen limitaciones importantes a los derechos a la vida, a la no-discriminación, a la libertad de expresión, a la libertad de asociación y a la libertad de participación política. Adicionalmente, los presuntos ataques a las instituciones electorales representan una fuente de preocupación. Asimismo, quisiéramos señalar nuestra preocupación sobre la situación preocupante de los periodistas, agudizada por el contexto electoral.
Alleged victims: 563
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26 Jul 2021
26 Jul 2021
    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
    20 May 2021
    Honduras
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • indigenous peoples
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la presunta detención arbitraria y acusación en contra de las señoras Marianela Mejía Solórzano y Jennifer Sarina Mejía Solórzano, al igual que los ataques recientes ocurridos en las oficinas del CODIMCA.
Alleged victims: 2
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    17 May 2021
    Greece
    JOL
  • women and girls
  • violence against women
Information received concerning some provisions contained in the Draft Law of the Ministry of Justice on "'Reforms relating to parent-child relationships and other matters of family law' (hereafter the Bill) amending the Greek’s Civil Code concerning child custody in case of a separation or divorce of the parents which is currently being discussed in Parliament. This Bill, if enacted, could facilitate the exposure to heightened risks for victims of domestic violence in the context of shared custody.
Alleged victims: -
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12 Nov 2021
    06 May 2021
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the detention of seventeen human rights defenders in the Islamic Republic of Iran for alleged crimes against the State in connection with their work in the promotion and protection of human rights. In particular, we wish to highlight those detentions, which carry penalties of ten years or more in prison, constituting a long-term detention, as well as where detainees are ill-treated or have access to medical facilities restricted. This letter is a follow up to previous communications sent on human rights defenders: Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh, Mr. Esmail Abdi, Mr. Soheil Arabi, Ms. Farangis Mazloum, Ms. Atena Daemi, Ms. Saba Kord Afshari, Ms. Raheleh Ahmadi, Ms. Narges Mohammadi, Ms. Sepideh Gholian, Ms. Yasaman Aryani, Ms. Monireh Arabshahi, Mr. Farhad Meysami, Ms. Golrokh Iraee, Ms. Hoda Amid and Ms. Najmeh Vahedi. It also addresses for the first time allegations concerning human rights defenders Mr. Amirsalah Davoudi and Mohammad Najafi.
Alleged victims: 18
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    04 May 2021
    Sudan
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • internally displaced persons
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the killing of human rights defender Faisal Yousef Mohamed and the sentencing of women human rights defender Waad Bahjat.
Alleged victims: 2
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    30 Apr 2021
    Sudan
    OL
  • women and girls
Concerns regarding reservations to article 16 of the Convention, which provides for the elimination of discrimination against women at the inception of marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution by divorce or death.
Alleged victims: -
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    28 Apr 2021
    China
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the arbitrary detention of seventeen human rights defenders sentenced or under investigation or trial for the alleged commission of crimes against the State, that carry prison sentences of 10 years or more. Such crimes would have been perpetrated in connection to activities aimed to the promotion and defence of human rights and in the exercise of their public freedoms.
Alleged victims: 17
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26 Jun 2021
    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
    09 Apr 2021
    India
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • terrorism
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning allegations of the arbitrary arrest and detention on terrorism charges of Adivasi human rights defender Hidme Markam.
Alleged victims: 1
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07 Jun 2021
    06 Apr 2021
    United Arab Emirates
    JUA
  • disappearances
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, and continued incommunicado detention of Ms. Sheikha Latifa Mohammed Al Maktoum who is reportedly in imminent danger of further human rights violations, including her right to life.
Alleged victims: 1
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    06 Apr 2021
    Tunisia
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant l’arrestation et la détention arbitraire de Rania Amdouni, et les actes de harcèlement, intimidation, diffamation en ligne et d’incitation à la violence, notamment de menaces de mort et de viol, et d’agressions physiques et verbales dont elle a été victime
Alleged victims: 2
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16 Jun 2021
    30 Mar 2021
    United States of America
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the alleged role of Omegle, a live video chat website based in the United States of America, in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
Alleged victims: -
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18 Jan 2022
    30 Mar 2021
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the alleged role of Omegle, a live video chat website based in the United States of America, in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
Alleged victims: -
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17 Jun 2021
    30 Mar 2021
    TikTok
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the alleged role of Omegle, a live video chat website based in the United States of America, in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
Alleged victims: -
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28 May 2021
    30 Mar 2021
    Omeagle LCC
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the alleged role of Omegle, a live video chat website based in the United States of America, in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
Alleged victims: -
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    30 Mar 2021
    Mexico
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the alleged role of Omegle, a live video chat website based in the United States of America, in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
Alleged victims: -
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02 Jun 2021
    30 Mar 2021
    India
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the alleged role of Omegle, a live video chat website based in the United States of America, in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
Alleged victims: -
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    30 Mar 2021
    China
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the alleged role of Omegle, a live video chat website based in the United States of America, in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
Alleged victims: -
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07 May 2021
    30 Mar 2021
    Apple Inc.
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the alleged role of Omegle, a live video chat website based in the United States of America, in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
Alleged victims: -
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    30 Mar 2021
    Android (google)
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • business
  • education
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the alleged role of Omegle, a live video chat website based in the United States of America, in facilitating self-generated and live video streamed sexual activities and material online that depicts or otherwise represents children appearing to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
Alleged victims: -
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    22 Mar 2021
    Hungary
    JOL
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • disability
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • older persons
  • religion or belief
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the abolition of the Equal Treatment Authority (“ETA”).
Alleged victims: -
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19 May 2021
    18 Mar 2021
    Malaysia
    JUA
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • arbitrary Detention
  • religion or belief
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning threats, acts of intimidation and persecution against Ms Nur Sajat, a trans woman, and the ongoing harassment of her family members in Malaysia.
Alleged victims: 1
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24 Mar 2021
    10 Mar 2021
    Malaysia
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • education
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • slavery
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the situation of refugee and asylum-seeking children, including unaccompanied and separated children, among whom child sexual abuse survivors, who continue to be at a heightened risk of abuse and exploitation including extortion, sale, child force labour, trafficking, sexual exploitation, child marriage and other gender-based violence upon arrival in Malaysia, and when apprehended and detained at Imigratin Immigration Detention Centres (IDCs).
Alleged victims: 49077
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03 May 2021
15 Feb 2022
    09 Mar 2021
    Netherlands
    JOL
  • terrorism
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • religion or belief
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the Bill on Amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure to criminalize residence in an area controlled by a terrorist organization (the “Bill”) and its compatibility with Netherlands’ international and human rights law obligations.
Alleged victims: -
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25 Mar 2021
    01 Mar 2021
    United States of America
    JUA
  • executions
  • African Descent
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disability
  • poverty
  • racism
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the death penalty in the United States of America at both federal and state levels.
Alleged victims: 49
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04 Jan 2022
    26 Feb 2021
    Poland
    JAL
  • cultural rights
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • religion or belief
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the charges brought against woman human rights defenders in response to their distribution of posters displaying the Virgin Mary with a rainbow halo, symbolising the LGBT flag.
Alleged victims: 3
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23 Apr 2021
    25 Feb 2021
    Nigeria
    JUA
  • trafficking in persons
  • education
  • sale of children
  • slavery
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received received concerning allegations of mass abduction and trafficking of children in the Northern region of Nigeria.
Alleged victims: 500
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26 Feb 2021
    24 Feb 2021
    Mexico
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con alegaciones de acoso institucional y discriminación en contra de integrantes de la Red Feminista Quintanarroense por parte de las autoridades del Estado de Quintana Roo como consecuencia del ejercicio del derecho de reunión pacífica y el derecho a defender los derechos de las mujeres y niñas, en particular la despenalización de la interrupción del embarazo y abogar por los derechos sexuales y reproductivos.
Alleged victims: 47
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    17 Feb 2021
    Egypt
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • minority issues
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding serious and grave developments that threaten the physical and mental integrity of a number of human rights defenders in the custody of the Egyptian authorities, including lack of medical care, physical and sexual assault, and alleged enforced disappearance.
Alleged victims: 4
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    16 Feb 2021
    Saudi Arabia
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the arbitrary arrest, detention and sentencing of human rights defenders and others on charges connected to counter-terrorism and the protection of national security.
Alleged victims: 8
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15 Apr 2021
10 May 2021
    12 Feb 2021
    Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • education
  • environment
  • human rights defenders
  • poverty
  • slavery
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida sobre el presunto abuso y explotación sexual de niños, niñas y adolescentes, asi como su reclutamiento como intermediarios para el tráfico de drogas en la comunidad Amazónica de Bella Vista, en el departamento de Beni. También quisieramos señalar la presunta falta de investigación de los hechos por las autoridades competentes.
Alleged victims: -
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16 Apr 2021
    11 Feb 2021
    Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la presunta detención arbitraria de seis integrantes de la organización Azul Positivo, en Zulia, así como el allanamiento de la organización Convite A.C. en Caracas y la criminalización de la defensora Vanessa Rosales, en Mérida.
Alleged victims: 8
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22 Feb 2021
    10 Feb 2021
    Colombia
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • African Descent
  • environment
  • executions
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con las alegaciones de amenazas de muerte contra la Sra. Nini Cárdenas, defensora de los derechos humanos medioambientales en el departamento de Santander, así como amenazas de muerte contra la Sra. Ruby Cortes Castro y el intento de asesinato contra la Sra. Silvia Gelen Rodríguez, ambas defensoras de los derechos de la población afro colombiana en el departamento de Valle del Cauca.
Alleged victims: 3
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26 Mar 2021
    10 Feb 2021
    China
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • arbitrary Detention
  • cultural rights
  • education
  • health
  • minority issues
  • religion or belief
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary detention and ill-treatment, including gender-based violence against Ms. Gulbakhar Jalilova, a Kazakh national and businesswoman and member of the Uyghur minority, as well as the lack of gender-specific measures that meet the needs of women detainees at Detention Centres No. 2 and No. 3 in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uyhgur Autonomous Region (XUAR).
Alleged victims: 1
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23 May 2021
    05 Feb 2021
    Haiti
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • business
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant une série d'attaques, y compris des menaces de mort, des intimidations et des violences contre des représentants d'ONG locales de défense des droits humains reflétant un schéma de représailles contre des défenseurs et défenseuses des droits humains pour l'exercice de leur travail.
Alleged victims: 5
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    05 Feb 2021
    France
    JUA
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • sale of children
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant la situation extrêmement précaire de Madame Anaïck Descamps, ressortissante française, ex-femme d’un djihadiste, membre présumé de l’Etat islamique en Irak et au Levant (« Daech »), qui se trouve actuellement en détention dans le camp de Roj, situé au nord-est de la Syrie, avec ses quatre enfants.
Alleged victims: 5
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    27 Jan 2021
    Colombia
    JAL
  • migrants
  • health
  • housing
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con alegaciones acerca de la falta de inclusión efectiva de la población migrante en la respuesta del Gobierno de Colombia a la pandemia de COVID-19; el impacto desproporcionado de ésta sobre el acceso efectivo de esta población a los servicios de salud, incluyendo la salud sexual y reproductiva de las mujeres y adolescentes, vivienda, agua y saneamiento; así como de la posible discriminación que resultaría de la presunta exclusión de las personas migrantes que no tengan regularizada su situación migratoria, del programa de vacunación del Gobierno de Colombia.
Alleged victims: 1800000
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    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
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
    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
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
    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
    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
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
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
    United States of America
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • sale of children
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
Information received concerning a network of Romanian social media accounts publishing pictures of a pornographic nature of under aged girls on international social media platforms and the lack of adequate legal protection for child victims of online pornography.
Alleged victims: -
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06 May 2021
06 May 2021
    25 Jan 2021
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • sale of children
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
Information received concerning a network of Romanian social media accounts publishing pictures of a pornographic nature of under aged girls on international social media platforms and the lack of adequate legal protection for child victims of online pornography.
Alleged victims: -
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29 Mar 2021
    25 Jan 2021
    Telegram Messenger LPP
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • sale of children
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
Information received concerning a network of Romanian social media accounts publishing pictures of a pornographic nature of under aged girls on international social media platforms and the lack of adequate legal protection for child victims of online pornography.
Alleged victims: -
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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
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
    Romania
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • sale of children
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
Information received concerning a network of Romanian social media accounts publishing pictures of a pornographic nature of under aged girls on international social media platforms and the lack of adequate legal protection for child victims of online pornography.
Alleged victims: -
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25 Mar 2021
25 Mar 2021
    25 Jan 2021
    Instagram
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • sale of children
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
Information received concerning a network of Romanian social media accounts publishing pictures of a pornographic nature of under aged girls on international social media platforms and the lack of adequate legal protection for child victims of online pornography.
Alleged victims: -
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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
    20 Jan 2021
    Poland
    JAL
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • cultural rights
  • education
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • religion or belief
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning (i) the increased use of hate speech and violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender diverse (“LGBT”) persons, including the creation of so-called “LGBT Free” zones by municipalities, (ii) restrictions on and attacks against Pride marches, (iii) a proposed bill to criminalize sexuality education, and (iv) restrictions on Polish schools’ initiative “Rainbow Friday”; (v) possible withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, and (vi) the Polish Episcopal Conference’s calling for the creation of “conversion therapy” clinics.
Alleged victims: -
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18 Mar 2021
    15 Jan 2021
    United States of America
    JUA
  • migrants
  • arbitrary Detention
  • business
  • health
  • mercenaries
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the lack of appropriate protection measures in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, lack of access to healthcare, ill-treatment, and medical abuses, including unwarranted gynaecological surgeries performed on migrant women without their fully informed consent at the Irwin County Detention Center.
Alleged victims: 819
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11 May 2021
    15 Jan 2021
    Irwin Center
    JUA
  • migrants
  • business
  • health
  • mercenaries
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the lack of appropriate protection measures in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, lack of access to healthcare, ill-treatment, and medical abuses, including unwarranted gynaecological surgeries performed on migrant women without their fully informed consent at the Irwin County Detention Center.
Alleged victims: 819
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    14 Jan 2021
    Argentina
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la ausencia de respuestas efectivas y oportunas por parte del sistema de justicia a múltiples denuncias de acoso y hostigamiento interpuestas por la Sra. Paola Estefania Tacacho, derivando en su feminicidio.
Alleged victims: 1
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05 Mar 2021
16 Mar 2021
    12 Jan 2021
    Pakistan
    JAL
  • executions
  • human rights defenders
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning attacks on transgender rights defenders in Pakistan Ms Nayyab Ali and Ms Heera Malik.
Alleged victims: 2
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    07 Jan 2021
    Andorra
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant des allégations de harcèlement judiciaire contre la défenseuse des droits humains Vanessa Mendoza Cortés en lien avec son travail en faveur des droits humains et sa coopération avec les Nations Unies dans ce domaine.
Alleged victims: 1
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26 Feb 2021
    29 Dec 2020
    Republic of Korea
    JOL
  • women and girls
  • health
  • violence against women
Information received concerning the legislative revisions proposed by the Government regarding the criminalization of termination of pregnancy.
Alleged victims: -
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    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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    15 Dec 2020
    Hungary
    JOL
  • health
  • privacy
  • religion or belief
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • women and girls
Information received concerning proposed bills restricting the notion of family to opposite-sex couples; excluding same-sex couples, single persons and non-married opposite-sex couples from adoption; and restricting children’s identity to their sex assigned at birth and ensuring an upbringing that “reflects the values based on Hungary’s constitutional identity and Christian culture”.
Alleged victims: -
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18 Dec 2020
    10 Dec 2020
    India
    JAL
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the failure to address complaints of repeated domestic violence committed by a police officer, against his wife and two children.
Alleged victims: 3
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    10 Dec 2020
    Argentina
    JOL
  • women and girls
  • health
  • violence against women
Posición de los mandatos concernidos con respecto al proyecto de ley INLEG-2020-79395494-APN-PTE y análisis con respecto a la actual penalización del aborto en el país.
Alleged victims: -
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    20 Nov 2020
    Colombia
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • arbitrary Detention
  • migrants
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • torture
  • violence against women
Información recibida en relación con la situación de cuatro mujeres trans originarias de Venezuela que habrían sido detenidas de manera arbitraria y golpeadas por agentes policiales en el municipio de Maicao, Colombia.
Alleged victims: 4
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19 Jan 2021
08 Feb 2021
    13 Nov 2020
    United States of America
    JUA
  • executions
  • disability
  • poverty
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the case of Ms. Lisa Montgomery, who is scheduled to be executed on 8 November 2020 following judicial proceedings which failed to adequately consider her mental health conditions.
Alleged victims: 1
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    10 Nov 2020
    Viet Nam
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the arrest of five human rights defenders in response to their advocacy following the Dong Tam village raids in January 2020.
Alleged victims: 5
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04 Feb 2021
    10 Nov 2020
    Cambodia
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • Cambodia
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the detention of a number of Cambodian human rights defenders in recent months for their participation in, intent to participate in or organization of, peaceful demonstrations against the detention of fellow human rights defenders and activists, and on environmental issues and labour rights.
Alleged victims: 20
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26 Jan 2021
    09 Nov 2020
    Guyana
    JUA
  • housing
  • poverty
  • violence against women
  • water and sanitation
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the allegations of the imminent forced eviction of at least 2000 persons living in an informal settlement in Success, East Coast Demerara, including single women and children. Many of these persons have started occupying the State land in question because they were unable to pay their rent due to the crisis triggered by the COVID-19 epidemic. Others have been living in informal settlements on State land or living in substandard housing for prolonged periods due to poverty. We would also like to bring to your attention that such forced evictions are taking place in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, thus further elevating the risk to health and life of the persons subjected to forced evictions, who, according to the information received, have not been offered alternative accommodation.
Alleged victims: 4000
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05 Jan 2021
05 Jan 2021
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05 Jan 2021
    03 Nov 2020
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • executions
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the practice of honour killings in Iran which most recently led to the killing of a 14-year-old girl, by her father in Talesh county, Gilan Province, on 21 May 2020.
Alleged victims: 1
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    29 Oct 2020
    Bangladesh
    JAL
  • executions
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning systemic and pervasive violence against women in the country, in particular sexual violence, and the inadequacy of the legal provisions currently in force and newly implemented to respond to it.
Alleged victims: -
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    23 Oct 2020
    Belarus
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • Belarus
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary detention of and judicial proceedings against woman human rights defenders Marina Dubina, Irina Sukhiy, and Maria Rabkova.
Alleged victims: 3
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30 Nov 2020
    16 Oct 2020
    Mauritania
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant l’arrêt de la Cour de cassation qui a réduit la condamnation d'un père pour viol commis sur ses six filles.
Alleged victims: 7
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    14 Oct 2020
    Mexico
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la reducción progresiva de los recursos estatales destinados a enfrentar la discriminación y la violencia contra las mujeres, que se refleja en recortes a los montos autorizados para ejecución de los programas del Presupuesto 2020, así como en recortes en el Proyecto de Presupuestos de Egresos de la Federación 2021.
Alleged victims: -
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29 Sep 2021
    08 Oct 2020
    Australia
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • older persons
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the changes to the Victims Support Scheme of New South Wales that would allegedly hinder victims’ access to compensation or support services, disproportionally impacting women and girls, indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities and older persons.
Alleged victims: -
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03 Dec 2020
    01 Oct 2020
    Italy
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • international solidarity
  • migrants
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the criminalisation of human rights defenders carrying out search and rescue missions in the Mediterranean Sea.
Alleged victims: 13
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30 Nov 2020
    30 Sep 2020
    Kenya
    JAL
  • sale of children
  • albinism
  • education
  • health
  • poverty
  • slavery
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the annual child marriage ceremonies, the most recent ones having reportedly taken place in March and September 2020, in Bunisa, Marsabit region of Kenya, where reportedly hundreds of underage couples have been married in traditional ceremonies.
Alleged victims: -
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    28 Sep 2020
    Philippines
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • housing
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the killings of human rights defenders Carlito Badion and Zara Alvarez.
Alleged victims: 3
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    28 Sep 2020
    Iraq
    JUA
  • executions
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the attempted killing of a woman human rights defender Ms. Lodya Remon Albarti and the killing of a woman human rights defender Ms. Riham Yaquoub, in Basra.
Alleged victims: 2
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23 Feb 2021
    25 Sep 2020
    Spain
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con el caso de la Sra. Irune Costumero Estévez y su hija de ocho años. La niña fue sometida a una separación forzada de su madre (arrancamiento) por orden del Poder Judicial de España.
Alleged victims: 2
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16 Dec 2020
19 Jan 2021
    25 Sep 2020
    Honduras
    JUA
  • human rights defenders
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la muerte violenta y la desaparición de varias personas defensoras de los derechos humanos en Honduras, así como amenazas y acoso en su contra, en lo que parece una situación de alto riesgo para las personas defensoras de los derechos humanos.
Alleged victims: 8
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    21 Sep 2020
    Nepal
    JOL
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning amendments to the Citizenship Act currently under debate in Parliament, which proposes positive changes to the legislation now in force in the country.
Alleged victims: -
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    16 Sep 2020
    Brazil
    JOL
  • women and girls
  • health
  • violence against women
Information received concerning retrogressions with regard to women’s and girl’s legal access to termination of pregnancy.
Alleged victims: -
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18 Sep 2020
    11 Sep 2020
    Romania
    JOL
  • education
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning proposed bills that reportedly (i) prohibit sexual education unless there is parental written consent, and (ii) impose a blanket ban on a discussion regarding “gender theory or opinion” in Romanian educational establishments.
Alleged victims: -
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08 Dec 2020
18 Dec 2020
    01 Sep 2020
    Somalia
    JOL
  • Somalia
  • health
  • religion or belief
  • sale of children
  • slavery
  • torture
  • trafficking in persons
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the draft bill on “Sexual Intercourse Related Crimes”.
Alleged victims: -
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    19 Aug 2020
    Guatemala
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • poverty
  • slavery
Información adicional recibida en relación con nuestra comunicación anterior GTM 04/2020, del 7 de mayo 2020, relativa a la situación de las “madres cuidadoras” que laboraban para el programa de hogares comunitarios de la Secretaria de Obras Sociales de la Esposa del Presidente (en adelante “la SOSEP”). Agradecemos la respuesta del Estado al respecto, recibida el 4 de julio del 2020 (No. ES/2.7/770). Sin embargo, a la luz de nueva información recibida, quisiéramos reiterar nuestra preocupación respecto a posibles vulneraciones de los derechos fundamentales de las mujeres que trabajaban en aquel programa.
Alleged victims: 684
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19 Oct 2020
    12 Aug 2020
    United States of America
    JAL
  • racism
  • migrants
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the increase in racist attacks and other xenophobic incidents, including physical and verbal violence against Asian descendants in the United States, as well as alleged lack of measures by the U.S. authorities to effectively combat such incidents.
Alleged victims: -
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    05 Aug 2020
    United States of America
    JAL
  • indigenous peoples
  • environment
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the disproportionate and differentiated impacts of COVID-19 on indigenous communities across the United States of America, and indigenous women in particular, the inadequacy of the measures taken to support tribes in their efforts to reduce the spread and address the harms caused by COVID-19 on indigenous peoples and communities, as well as the lack of recognition and support of the legitimate actions undertaken by tribes in the exercise of their self-determination.
Alleged victims: 2000000
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11 Feb 2021
    29 Jul 2020
    Republic of Korea
    JAL
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • health
  • privacy
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the dismissal of a soldier, Staff Sergeant Byun Hui-Su, following surgery to affirm her gender identity.
Alleged victims: 1
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28 Sep 2020
    28 Jul 2020
    Netherlands
    JUA
  • racism
  • African Descent
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND)’s intention to deport Mrs. Anita Mavita, her husband Mr. Jude Kasangaki and their youngest child to Uganda, while keeping their other seven children who had been forcibly removed from their parents and place in foster homes in the Netherlands. The latter children were forcibly removed by the Child Care and Protection Board (The Raad van kinderbesccherming) in 2018 and placed in foster homes.
Alleged victims: 4
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09 Dec 2020
    20 Jul 2020
    Chile
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • cultural rights
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • violence against women
Información recibida en relación con dos denuncias penales presentadas por Carabineros de Chile en contra del colectivo artístico feminista "Las Tesis" (en adelante “el Colectivo”), tras la realización por el Colectivo de performances y videos donde denunciaban, entre otros, la violencia contra las mujeres.
Alleged victims: 1
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17 Sep 2020
17 Sep 2020
    17 Jul 2020
    Lebanon
    JUA
  • slavery
  • migrants
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the situation of migrant domestic workers who have reached for help from or have been abandoned by their employers or sponsors at their consulates and embassies as a consequence of a) the economic crisis in Lebanon and b) COVID-19. They are reportedly facing serious protection risks, including deprivation, exploitation and abuse and are unable to afford food, accommodation, healthcare and basic necessities. Many asked for assistance to be repatriated to their countries, but are unable to bare the costs of the flight tickets. A large proportion of the women migrant workers are Ethiopian nationals, and some are from other African and Asian countries. There are reports of frequent deaths, including suicides, of migrant workers who lost their jobs and have been stranded without being able to return to their countries of origin. The domestic workers were vulnerable to abuse and exploitation perior to the crisis. Allegedly, many of the domestic workers have been exploited and abused, also as a result of the Kafala system. If no action is taken, migrant domestic workers who have become homeless might face acute starvation and further exploitation and abuse.
Alleged victims: 100
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18 Sep 2020
02 Oct 2020
    17 Jul 2020
    Ethiopia
    JUA
  • slavery
  • migrants
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the situation of migrant domestic workers who have reached for help from or have been abandoned by their employers or sponsors at their consulates and embassies as a consequence of a) the economic crisis in Lebanon and b) COVID-19. They are reportedly facing serious protection risks, including deprivation, exploitation and abuse and are unable to afford food, accommodation, healthcare and basic necessities. Many asked for assistance to be repatriated to their countries, but are unable to bear the costs of the flight tickets. A large proportion of the women migrant workers are Ethiopian nationals, and some are from other African and Asian countries. There are reports of frequent deaths, including suicides, of migrant workers who lost their jobs and have been stranded without being able to return to their countries of origin. The domestic workers were vulnerable to abuse and exploitation prior to the crisis. Allegedly, many of the domestic workers have been exploited and abused, also as a result of the Kafala system. If no action is taken, migrant domestic workers who have become homeless might face acute starvation and further exploitation and abuse.
Alleged victims: 100
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16 Oct 2020
    13 Jul 2020
    Lao People's Democratic Republic
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • business
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • poverty
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the five year prison sentence handed down to woman human rights defender Ms. Houayheuang Xayabouly for sharing her views on corruption and environmental rights in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR).
Alleged victims: 1
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20 Oct 2020
    10 Jul 2020
    Steppe Gold Limited
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • business
  • environment
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding allegations of physical and sexual harassment of woman human rights defender Ms. Mungunkhun Dulmaa, and lack of appropriate compensation, for her work defending the land and environmental rights of her community facing the establishment of the Steppe Gold mine in the province of Dornod.
Alleged victims: 1
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    10 Jul 2020
    Mongolia
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • business
  • environment
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding allegations of physical and sexual harassment of woman human rights defender Ms. Mungunkhun Dulmaa for her work defending the land and environmental rights of her community facing the establishment of the Steppe Gold mine in the province of Dornod.
Alleged victims: 1
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    10 Jul 2020
    El Salvador
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • arbitrary Detention
  • health
  • violence against women
Información recibida en relación con la criminalización del aborto y detención arbitraria de mujeres en El Salvador, en particular en el contexto actual de la pandemia del COVID-19.
Alleged victims: 3
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10 Jul 2020
    10 Jul 2020
    Canada
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • business
  • environment
  • housing
  • mercenaries
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding allegations of physical and sexual harassment of woman human rights defender Ms. Mungunkhun Dulmaa for her work defending the land and environmental rights of her community facing the establishment of the Steppe Gold mine in the province of Dornod.
Alleged victims: 1
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04 Sep 2020
    07 Jul 2020
    Australia
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • migrants
Information received concerning the situation of Ms. Agnieska Ewa Miler, a dual citizen of Poland and the United Kingdom, who has lived in Australia, for the past three years, in conditions of vulnerability and uncertainty, with restrictions of movement and inability to access social protection and support, as a result of the discriminatory impact of the intersection of family law and immigration law.
Alleged victims: 1
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04 Sep 2020
    23 Jun 2020
    Mexico
    JUA
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con las alegaciones de intimidaciones y amenazas de muerte en contra de defensoras de derechos humanos que luchan contra la impunidad en casos del feminicidio.
Alleged victims: 2
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27 Jul 2022
    22 Jun 2020
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • cultural rights
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the heavy sentencing of woman human rights defender Saba Kord Afshari for her work promoting women’s rights in Iran.
Alleged victims: 2
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    19 Jun 2020
    United States of America
    JAL
  • slavery
  • business
  • migrants
  • privacy
  • sale of children
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and trafficking in human beings are allegedly facilitated by technologies that are available on the online platforms owned by Google, as well as other private companies, such as Apple and Facebook. In Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, these online applications serve as marketing platforms that allow online users to trade migrant women and girls as housemaids. The women and girls, mostly from South East Asian, South Asian and African countries, are working and living in private households, often in slavery-like situations.
Alleged victims: -
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09 Feb 2021
    19 Jun 2020
    Saudi Arabia
    JAL
  • slavery
  • business
  • migrants
  • privacy
  • sale of children
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and trafficking in human beings are allegedly facilitated by technologies that are available on the online platforms owned by Google, as well as other private companies, such as Apple and Facebook. In Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, these online applications serve as marketing platforms that allow online users to trade migrant women and girls as housemaids. The women and girls, mostly from South East Asian, South Asian and African countries, are working and living in private households, often in slavery-like situations.
Alleged victims: -
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17 Sep 2020
    19 Jun 2020
    Saudi Arabia
    AL
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged lack of investigations on reports of domestic violence and failure to consider them in divorce and child custody proceedings, as well as reports of forced reconciliation by women victims of domestic violence with their abusers.
Alleged victims: 2
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04 Aug 2020
    19 Jun 2020
    NBK Capital Partners
    JAL
  • slavery
  • business
  • migrants
  • privacy
  • sale of children
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and trafficking in human beings are allegedly facilitated by technologies that are available on the online platforms owned by Google, as well as other private companies, such as Apple and Facebook. In Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, these online applications serve as marketing platforms that allow online users to trade migrant women and girls as housemaids. The women and girls, mostly from South East Asian, South Asian and African countries, are working and living in private households, often in slavery-like situations.
Alleged victims: -
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    19 Jun 2020
    Kuwait
    JAL
  • slavery
  • business
  • migrants
  • privacy
  • sale of children
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and trafficking in human beings are allegedly facilitated by technologies that are available on the online platforms owned by Google, as well as other private companies, such as Apple and Facebook. In Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, these online applications serve as marketing platforms that allow online users to trade migrant women and girls as housemaids. The women and girls, mostly from South East Asian, South Asian and African countries, are working and living in private households, often in slavery-like situations.
Alleged victims: -
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24 Jul 2020
    19 Jun 2020
    Haraj
    JAL
  • slavery
  • business
  • migrants
  • privacy
  • sale of children
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and trafficking in human beings are allegedly facilitated by technologies that are available on the online platforms owned by Google, as well as other private companies, such as Apple and Facebook. In Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Arab States Region, these online applications serve as marketing platforms that allow online users to trade migrant women and girls as housemaids. The women and girls, mostly from South East Asian, South Asian and African countries, are working and living in private households, often in slavery-like situations.
Alleged victims: -
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    19 Jun 2020
    Google
    JAL
  • slavery
  • business
  • migrants
  • privacy
  • sale of children
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and trafficking in human beings are allegedly facilitated by technologies that are available on the online platforms owned by Google, as well as other private companies, such as Apple and Facebook. In Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, these online applications serve as marketing platforms that allow online users to trade migrant women and girls as housemaids. The women and girls, mostly from South East Asian, South Asian and African countries, are working and living in private households, often in slavery-like situations.
Alleged victims: -
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    19 Jun 2020
    Facebook
    JAL
  • slavery
  • business
  • migrants
  • privacy
  • sale of children
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and trafficking in human beings are allegedly facilitated by technologies that are available on the online platforms owned by Google, as well as other private companies, such as Apple and Facebook. In Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Arab States Region, these online applications serve as marketing platforms that allow online users to trade migrant women and girls as housemaids. The women and girls, mostly from South East Asian, South Asian and African countries, are working and living in private households, often in slavery-like situations.
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21 Aug 2020
    19 Jun 2020
    Apple
    JAL
  • slavery
  • business
  • migrants
  • privacy
  • sale of children
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and trafficking in human beings are allegedly facilitated by technologies that are available on the online platforms owned by Google, as well as other private companies, such as Apple and Facebook. In Kuwait and Saudi, these online applications serve as marketing platforms that allow online users to trade migrant women and girls as housemaids. The women and girls, mostly from South East Asian, South Asian and African countries, are working and living in private households, often in slavery-like situations.
Alleged victims: -
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30 Oct 2020
    19 Jun 2020
    4Sale
    JAL
  • slavery
  • business
  • migrants
  • privacy
  • sale of children
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Contemporary forms of slavery, forced labour and trafficking in human beings are allegedly facilitated by technologies that are available on the online platforms owned by Google, as well as other private companies, such as Apple and Facebook. In Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, these online applications serve as marketing platforms that allow online users to trade migrant women and girls as housemaids. The women and girls, mostly from South East Asian, South Asian and African countries, are working and living in private households, often in slavery-like situations. slavery-like situations.
Alleged victims: -
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    11 Jun 2020
    Guatemala
    AL
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la decisión de cerrar la Secretaria Presidencial de la Mujer (SEPREM), el mecanismo de más alto nivel del Poder Ejecutivo para el avance de las mujeres, encargada de asesorar y coordinadora políticas públicas para institucionalizar en el Estado la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres. Dicha decisión es contraria a las recomendaciones provenientes tanto de las organizaciones nacionales de mujeres como de mecanismos internacionales de derechos humanos, incluido el Comité CEDAW, de mantener y reforzar la institución.
Alleged victims: 3
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23 Jun 2020
12 Aug 2020
    03 Jun 2020
    Pakistan
    JUA
  • torture
  • disability
  • executions
  • health
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the inhuman conditions of detention of Ms. Kanizan Bibi, a woman with psychosocial disabilities who has been on Pakistan’s death row for 30 years.
Alleged victims: 1
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    02 Jun 2020
    Saudi Arabia
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received regarding the continued detention of five women human rights defenders and the death in prison of human rights defender Mr. Abdullah Hamid Al-Hamid.
Alleged victims: 6
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24 Jul 2020
07 Aug 2020
    27 May 2020
    Malawi
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning alleged police violence, including sexual assault and rape, against women and girls.
Alleged victims: 17
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    22 May 2020
    United States of America
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • health
  • violence against women
Information received concerning restrictions taken in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and which have been interpreted in ways impeding access to abortion services.
Alleged victims: -
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11 Aug 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
    Ethiopia
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • arbitrary Detention
  • human rights defenders
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the arrest and detention under the Hate Speech and Disinformation Prevention and Suppression Proclamation, adopted in February 2020, of journalist Yayesew Shimelis and lawyer Elizabeth Kebede for posts related to the Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic they published on social media.
Alleged victims: 2
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10 Jul 2020
    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
20 May 2020
10 Jul 2020
    08 May 2020
    Mexico
    JUA
  • women and girls
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • health
  • torture
Información recibida en relación con el caso de la Sra. Clotet Wang, privada de libertad, quien se encuentra en una situación de particular riesgo para su vida.
Alleged victims: 1
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09 Jul 2020
    07 May 2020
    Guatemala
    JAL
  • women and girls
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • poverty
  • slavery
Información recibida en relación con la situación de las denominadas “madres cuidadoras” que laboran para la Secretaría de Obras Sociales de la esposa del Presidente. Las mujeres estarían sujetas a condiciones y posibles prácticas de explotación laboral que podrían constituir trabajo forzoso, y habrían sufrido actos de estigmatización de parte del gobierno tras reivindicar sus derechos. Además, estarían ahora en riesgo de perder su única fuente de ingresos sin ninguna posibilidad de reclamar sus derechos como trabajadoras, tras la intención anunciada del gobierno de cerrar el programa de “hogares sustitutos”.
Alleged victims: 684
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04 Jul 2020
    01 May 2020
    Cambodia
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • Cambodia
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of Ms. Ven Rachana, an online clothes seller, and Ms. Morn Eva, a transgender woman. We also refer to the comments made by Government officials targeting human rights NGOs that issued a statement in defence of women’s rights following their detention.
Alleged victims: 2
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31 Jul 2020
    23 Apr 2020
    Uganda
    JUA
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • arbitrary Detention
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary arrest of 23 people and detention of 19 of them, including gay, bisexual, and trans women in Kyengera, Uganda.
Alleged victims: 19
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    16 Apr 2020
    Algeria
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • privacy
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant des allégations de violations de la vie privée, d’atteinte à la dignité de la personne et de représailles à l’encontre de Mme Olaya Saadi, à la suite de sa coopération avec certains mécanismes des droits de l’homme des Nations Unies.
Alleged victims: 1
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    15 Apr 2020
    Philippines
    JUA
  • disappearances
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • terrorism
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged killings of human rights defenders Mr. Ryan Hubilla and Ms. Nelly Bagasala as well as the alleged threats, arbitrary detention and legal cases brought against other human rights defenders from the organisations Karapatan, Gabriela and Rural Missionaries of the Philippines which work on issues including enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings. The individuals concerned include Ms. Elisa Tita Lubi, Ms. Cristina Palabay, Mr. Reylan Vergara, Mr. Roneo Clamor, Ms. Kiri Dalena, Dr. Edita Burgos, Fr. Wilfredo Ruazol, and Mr. Jose Mari Callueng, Sr. Elenita Belardo, Sr. Emma Cupin, Ms. Gertrudes Libang, Ms. Joan May Salvador, Ms. Jennefer Aguhob and Mr. Alexander Philip Abinguna.
Alleged victims: 16
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    15 Apr 2020
    Cameroon
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant des actes d’agression et d’intimidation contre Mme Maximilienne Ngo Mbe, ainsi qu’un incendie criminel perpétré contre le siège du REDHAC, une coalition des défenseurs des droits de l’homme dont Mme Ngo Mbe est la Directrice exécutive.
Alleged victims: 2
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    06 Apr 2020
    Saudi Arabia
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the alleged arbitrary arrest and detention in Saudi Arabia since 28 February 2019 of Princess Basmah bint Saud bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud and her daughter Suhoud Al Sharif, who are Saudi citizens.
Alleged victims: 2
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04 Jun 2020
    10 Mar 2020
    Thammakaset Co. Ltd
    JAL
  • business
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • migrants
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning Thammakaset’s continued judicial harassment of human rights defenders, migrant workers, journalists and academics for denouncing exploitative conditions of migrant workers in your company. Your company allegedly continues to use criminal defamation laws to intimidate individuals by repeatedly denouncing exploitative working conditions at your poultry farm.
Alleged victims: 3
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    10 Mar 2020
    Thailand
    JAL
  • business
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • migrants
  • slavery
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the continued judicial harassment by Thammakaset Co. Ltd (Thammakaset), of human rights defenders, migrant workers, journalists and academics for denouncing exploitative working conditions of migrant workers at the poultry farm of this Thai company.
Alleged victims: 3
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19 Nov 2020
    21 Jan 2020
    Nicaragua
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • torture
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con la detención de Amaya Eva Coppens Zamora, Atahualpa Yupanqui Quintero Morán, Derlis Francisco Hernández Flores, Hansel Amaru Quintero Gómez, Ivannia del Carmen Alvarez Martínez, Jesús Adolfo Tefel Amador, Jordán Irene Lanzas Herrera, José Dolores Medina Cabrera Cabrera, María Margarita Hurtado Chamorro, Marvin Samir López Ñamendiz, Melvin Antonio Peralta Centeno, Neyma Elizabeth Hernández Ruiz, Olga Sabrina Valle López, Roberto Andrés Butching Miranda, Wendy Rebeca Juaréz Avilés y Wilfredo Alejandro Brenes Domínguez. En particular, hemos recibido información sobre al menos dos de los casos que podrían ser actos de represalias motivados por la cooperación con las Naciones Unidas, sus representantes y sus mecanismos en la esfera de los derechos humanos.
Alleged victims: 18
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    21 Jan 2020
    India
    JUA
  • privacy
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • religion or belief
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the continued harassment intimidation and violation of the right to privacy of journalist Ms. Rana Ayyub, as well as the alleged failure by the authorities to provide effective protection.
Alleged victims: 1
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    26 Dec 2019
    Philippines
    JUA
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • terrorism
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the arrests of at least 62 individuals following raids at the offices of several civil society organisations, as well as the houses of their members, and the alleged abduction of human rights defender Ms. Honey Mae Suazo.
Alleged victims: 71
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    19 Dec 2019
    Spain
    JUA
  • women and girls
  • violence against women
Información recibida en relación con la sentencia de la Audiencia Provincial de Alicante del 4 de noviembre de 2019 que revoca la orden de alejamiento solicitada por una ciduadina en protección de su hija
Alleged victims: 1
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11 Feb 2020
    17 Dec 2019
    Egypt
    JUA
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • arbitrary Detention
  • human rights defenders
  • privacy
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning ththe alleged arbitrary arrest and detention of Eman Al-Helw, woman human rights defender and Hossam Ahmad, trans-man.
Alleged victims: 2
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    11 Dec 2019
    Türkiye
    JUA
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the need to protect the right to life of four French women, and their children. While their whereabouts are currently unknown, they may be either in North East Syria, including in areas that may be under the control of Turkish authorities, or in Turkey. We also wish to inform you that a letter expressing similar concerns has been sent to the Government of France. We are bringing these cases to your attention in the hope that the Turkish authorities may be able to trace the location of these four women and their children and assist in their repatriation to France.
Alleged victims: 11
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09 Mar 2020
    11 Dec 2019
    France
    JUA
  • executions
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • women and girls
Informations reçues concernant la situation extrêmement précaire de quatre femmes françaises, et de leurs enfants, qui se trouveraient au Nord-Est de la Syrie, ou en Turquie. Une lettre exprimant des préoccupations similaires est en cours d’envoi au Gouvernement turc.
Alleged victims: 11
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14 Feb 2020
    29 Nov 2019
    Slovakia
    JOL
  • health
  • women and girls
Information received concerning a proposed amendment to Act 576/2004 Coll. on health care, healthcare related services and other acts
Alleged victims: -
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16 Jan 2020
    20 Nov 2019
    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    JAL
  • African Descent
  • health
  • housing
  • migrants
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • women and girls
Information received concerning racial discrimination as a result of immigration policy particularly affecting the human rights of British citizens of Commonwealth descent and their descendants collectively known as the “Windrush generation”.
Alleged victims: -
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20 Jan 2020
    20 Nov 2019
    Lebanon
    JAL
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • poverty
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning several incidents of alleged excessive force and ill-treatment by security forces and Lebanese army personnel against protesters, and failures to adequately protect protesters from violent attacks by alleged sympathizers of political groups, during overwhelmingly peaceful mass protests across towns and cities in Lebanon, including downtown Beirut, since 17 October 2019.
Alleged victims: -
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20 Jan 2020
    15 Nov 2019
    Türkiye
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the detention and interrogation of Ms. Lisa Smith and the situation of vulnerability of her child.
Alleged victims: 2
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02 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019
    15 Nov 2019
    Ireland
    JUA
  • terrorism
  • arbitrary Detention
  • disappearances
  • executions
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • 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 detention and interrogation of Ms. Lisa Smith and the situation of vulnerability of her child.
Alleged victims: 2
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19 Nov 2019
14 Jan 2020
    05 Nov 2019
    Chile
    JUA
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • poverty
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación a alegaciones de serias violaciones a los derechos a la vida y la integridad personal, a la libertad de expresión, de reunión pacífica y de asociación en Chile, en el contexto de las manifestaciones que han tenido lugar desde el 19 de octubre de 2019 a partir de la declaratoria del Estado de Excepción Constitucional de Emergencia y hasta la fecha de la presente, en particular sobre el uso excesivo de la fuerza en contra de manifestantes (incluyendo niños, niñas y adolescentes); lo cual ha causado al menos 4316 personas detenidas y 1574 heridas, incluyendo al menos 23 personas que habrían perdido la vida mientras participaban en las protestas. Hemos recibido también información sobre presuntas detenciones masivas, violencia sexual a mujeres, presuntas detenciones ilegales en domicilios particulares y hechos que podrían constituir tortura, tratos o penas crueles, inhumanas y degradantes en centros de detención.
Alleged victims: 4667
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03 Jan 2020
03 Jan 2020
03 Jan 2020
03 Jan 2020
03 Jan 2020
03 Jan 2020
    01 Nov 2019
    Bahrain
    JAL
  • human rights defenders
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • health
  • religion or belief
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the continued imprisonment and other human rights violations in prison, including restrictions on religious practices and family visits, against Ms. Hajar Mansoor Hasan, and her cellmate Ms. Medina Ali, as well as the continued imprisonment and deteriorating health of human rights defender Mr. Nabeel Rajab.
Alleged victims: 3
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29 Dec 2019
    28 Oct 2019
    Israel
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
  • torture
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the detention and alleged torture and ill-treatment of Ms. Heba Al-Labadi.
Alleged victims: 1
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    25 Oct 2019
    Kazakhstan
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the discriminatory restrictions on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom of association and freedom of expression of LBTIQ human rights defenders, which may relate to their engagement in advocacy on human rights related to sexual orientation, gender identity and gender equality.
Alleged victims: 4
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23 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019
23 Dec 2019
22 May 2020
    09 Oct 2019
    Spain
    JUA
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con el caso de una niña de 7 años que será sometida a una separación forzada de su madre (arrancamiento) por orden del Poder Judicial de España.
Alleged victims: 2
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11 Feb 2020
    07 Oct 2019
    Honduras
    JUA
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida sobre el asesinato de la Sra. Bessy Ferrero Sánchez y el intento de asesinato en contra de la Sra. Vicky Carvajal, ambas mujeres trans defensoras de derechos humanos que trabajan con personas LGBTI y miembros del Colectivo de Mujeres Trans Muñecas de la Asociación ARCOIRIS (“el Colectivo”).
Alleged victims: 2
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01 Nov 2019
06 Jan 2020
06 Jan 2020
    04 Sep 2019
    Indonesia
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • racism
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning an Internet shutdown in West Papua and subsequent acts of harassment and threats against journalist Mr. Victor Mambor and lawyer Ms. Veronica Koman who have been reporting on the shutdown and the protests.
Alleged victims: 2
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12 Sep 2019
    28 Aug 2019
    India
    JAL
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • minority issues
  • racism
  • terrorism
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the continued judicial proceedings against and arbitrary detention of ten human rights defenders promoting the rights of the Dalit minority, and the house arrests of five of them.
Alleged victims: 10
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    21 Aug 2019
    Colombia
    JAL
  • disability
  • health
  • migrants
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Información recibida en relación con los obstáculos enfrentados por una mujer con discapacidad, presunta víctima de violación por un miembro del ejército nacional de Colombia en el departamento de Arauca, para acceder a la justicia y recibir la atención integral requerida.
Alleged victims: 1
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11 Oct 2019
22 Oct 2019
01 Nov 2019
    30 Jul 2019
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • education
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • minority issues
  • violence against women
  • women and girls
Information received concerning the detention of the teacher Ms. Zara Mohammadi by the Iranian authorities.
Alleged victims: 1
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    22 Jul 2019
    Kazakhstan
    JAL
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • privacy
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • violence against women
  • women in law and in practice
Information received concerning acts of harassment and discrimination directed towards a young lesbian couple and the unauthorized filming and posting of a video in social media, affecting their right to privacy.
Alleged victims: 2
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19 Sep 2019
    15 Jul 2019
    Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información relativa a la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
Alleged victims: -
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15 Jul 2021
    15 Jul 2019
    Uruguay
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información relativa a la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
Alleged victims: -
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07 Aug 2019
    15 Jul 2019
    Trinidad and Tobago
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
Alleged victims: -
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    15 Jul 2019
    Suriname
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
Alleged victims: -
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    15 Jul 2019
    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning the ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
Alleged victims: -
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    15 Jul 2019
    Saint Lucia
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning the ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
Alleged victims: -
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    15 Jul 2019
    Saint Kitts and Nevis
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
Alleged victims: -
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    15 Jul 2019
    Peru
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información relativa a la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
Alleged victims: -
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    15 Jul 2019
    Paraguay
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información relativa a la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Panama
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información relativa a la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Nicaragua
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información relativa a la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Mexico
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
La información relativa a la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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24 Jan 2020
    15 Jul 2019
    Jamaica
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Honduras
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
La información relativa a la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Haiti
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Informations concernant la ratification prioritaire de l' Accord régional sur l’accès à l’information, la participation publique et l’accès à la justice à propos des questions environnementales en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes (Accord Escazú).
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    15 Jul 2019
    Guyana
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning the ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Guatemala
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información recibida en relación con la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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26 Aug 2019
    15 Jul 2019
    Grenada
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
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    15 Jul 2019
    El Salvador
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información relativa a la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Ecuador
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Dominican Republic
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información recibida en relación con la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Dominica
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Cuba
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información recibida en relación con la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Costa Rica
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información recibida en relación con la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Colombia
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información recibida en relación con la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Chile
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información recibida en relación con la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Brazil
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
Alleged victims: -
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26 Jul 2019
    15 Jul 2019
    Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información recibida en relación con la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Belize
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Barbados
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Bahamas
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
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    15 Jul 2019
    Argentina
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Información recibida en relación con la ratificación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Acceso a la Información, la Participación Pública y el Acceso a la Justicia en Asuntos Ambientales en América Latina y el Caribe (Acuerdo de Escazú) como una cuestión de prioridad.
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23 Jul 2019
    15 Jul 2019
    Antigua and Barbuda
    JOL
  • African Descent
  • business
  • development
  • disability
  • environment
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • toxics and human rights
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • internally displaced persons
  • international order
  • international solidarity
  • older persons
  • racism
  • water and sanitation
  • women in law and in practice
Information concerning ratification of the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters in Latin America and the Caribbean (Escazú Agreement) as a matter of priority.
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    08 Jul 2019
    Argentina
    JAL
  • health
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women in law and in practice
Información recibida en relación con los obstáculos enfrentados por una menor de edad víctima de violación para acceder a la interrupción legal del embarazo regulada en el artículo 86 del Código Penal de la República Argentina.
Alleged victims: 1
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12 Sep 2019
12 Sep 2019
12 Sep 2019
12 Sep 2019
    28 Jun 2019
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • executions
  • health
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • terrorism
  • torture
  • women in law and in practice
Information received concerning the continued arbitrary detention of Ms. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, Mr. Kamran Ghaderi and Mr. Ahmadreza Djalali by the Iranian authorities.
Alleged victims: 3
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22 Oct 2019
    20 Jun 2019
    Spain
    JAL
  • violence against women
  • women in law and in practice
Información recibida en relación con la promulgación de sentencias judiciales en el país que están basadas en estereotipos y prejuicios de género en casos de mujeres víctimas de delitos sexuales.
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19 Aug 2019
    18 Jun 2019
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • health
  • human rights defenders
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • violence against women
  • women in law and in practice
Information received concerning the deteriorating health situation of the detained human rights defender and journalist, Ms. Narges Mohammadi, currently serving a 16-year prison sentence in Evin Prison. Ms. Narges Mohammadi suffers from several serious health conditions, including a pulmonary embolism and a neurological disorder that can result in partial paralysis.
Alleged victims: 1
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    29 May 2019
    Bangladesh
    JUA
  • cultural rights
  • executions
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • human rights defenders
  • religion or belief
  • women in law and in practice
Information received concerning death threats and incitement to violence by a militant Islamist group against women human rights defender Ms. Sultana Kamal.
Alleged victims: 1
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    14 May 2019
    Iran (Islamic Republic of)
    JUA
  • arbitrary Detention
  • cultural rights
  • disappearances
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • independence of judges and lawyers
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women in law and in practice
Information received concerning the reported arrest and arbitrary detention of human rights defender Ms. Yasaman Aryani, Ms. Monireh Arabshahi and Ms. Mojgan Keshavarz by the Iranian authorities.
Alleged victims: 3
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02 Jul 2019
14 Nov 2019
    10 May 2019
    Malaysia
    JAL
  • freedom of opinion and expression
  • freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • human rights defenders
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • women in law and in practice
Information received concerning investigations into the organisers of a women’s day march in Kuala Lumpur under the Sedition Act, and the summoning of LGBT+ human rights defender Mr. Numan Afifi
Alleged victims: 1
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24 Jan 2020
    01 Apr 2019
    Brunei Darussalam
    JOL
  • executions
  • religion or belief
  • sexual orientation and gender identity
  • torture
  • violence against women
  • women in law and in practice
Information received concerning the criminalisation of adultery and consensual same sex relations and the imposition of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments for such acts, including stoning, whipping and amputation.
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08 Apr 2019
    28 Mar 2019
    United States of America
    JAL
  • business
  • privacy
  • violence against women
  • women in law and in practice
Information received concerning legislation and social practices of “male guardianship” in Saudi Arabia, including the mobile phone application ‘Absher’, which seem to contravene international human rights norms and standards as outlined below.
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21 Jun 2019
    28 Mar 2019
    Google, Inc.
    JAL
  • business
  • education
  • privacy
  • violence against women
  • women in law and in practice
Information received concerning the availability on the Google’s application store of the Saudi mobile phone application ‘‘Absher’’, allowing millions of “male guardians” to technologically monitor and restrict women’s whereabouts and freedom of movement in Saudi Arabia.
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25 May 2019
    28 Mar 2019
    Apple Inc.
    JAL
  • business
  • education
  • privacy