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Human Rights Council Member States discussed four reports on systemic racism, including the mission reports of UN Experts on law enforcement and racial justice recommending wide-ranging, systemic changes to policing in Brazil and Italy.
ISHR and eight partners call on all UN member States to not vote for Saudi Arabia in the upcoming Human Rights Council elections to take place on 9 October 2024 at the General Assembly in New York.
The UN Secretary-General’s annual report on reprisals showed that a dozen sitting members of the Human Rights Council and three States aspiring to join it have retaliated against individuals or groups who sought to engage with the United Nations.
On Wednesday 25 September, Georgia will address the 79th session of the UN General Assembly at a time when its own rights record and the situation for human rights defenders working within its borders merit deep scrutiny.
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The UN’s Fact-Finding Mission left the Human Rights Council in no doubt: The repression following the presidential elections in July was planned and an extension of an existing policy to induce fear in and silence the opposition.
German activist and researcher Johannes Rohr filed an individual complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Committee after being unlawfully expelled from Russia only weeks after he publicly criticised Russian authorities’ treatment of their Indigenous communities.
On 9 September the Secretary-General released his annual report on reprisals, in which he included three of four cases ISHR has been actively campaigning on, namely the cases of Khurram Parvez and Irfan Mehraj (India) and Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja (Bahrain).
In its report to the UN Human Rights Council, the Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan detailed the immense suffering of the Sudanese people, concluding that the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces and their allies are responsible for large-scale violations, many of which amount to international crimes.
Art for Human Rights and Human Rights in China (HRIC) announced on 5 September that a bronze bust of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, which they had commissioned, will be donated to the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR) at the University of Galway and unveiled on 11 September 2024. The project was conducted in partnership with ISHR and other human rights organisations.
With international accountability urgently needed, and amid intensifying post-election repression, the UN Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of its Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela, 29 national and international organisations defending human rights in Venezuela said today.
Candidate States to the Human Rights Council presented their pledges and responded to questions by civil society on their human rights records, while elaborating on their vision to improve the work of the Council at ISHR’s and Amnesty International’s annual event.
