Human Rights

Women fleeing the combat zones of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts stand in line to receive humanitarian aid.
Photo courtesy of Ukrainian Women’s Fund

‘Dire’ and deteriorating pattern of rights abuse continues in Ukraine

27 September 2022
Europe

Ongoing armed attacks by Russia against Ukraine have led to devastating human rights abuses there, according to a new report released on Tuesday by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission for the war-torn country (HRMMU).

Protesters gather in Stockholm, Sweden, after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran's so-called morality police.
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Iran: UN human rights office condemns violent crackdown against hijab protests

27 September 2022
Asia Pacific

Authorities in Iran must fully respect the rights of protestors calling for justice for Mahsa Amini, the young woman who died in custody after being arrested for allegedly violating strict dress codes, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday. 

A view of Moscow, Russia.
UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras

Russia: Alarm over arrests of military mobilization protesters

27 September 2022
Europe

In Russia, nearly 2,400 people have reportedly been arrested for protesting against the Kremlin’s mobilisation call-up to fight in Ukraine, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.

Women feed their children at a nutrition site in South Sudan.
© WFP

South Sudan violence proliferating, warn independent rights experts

26 September 2022
Africa

Deeply disturbing violence is escalating “all over” South Sudan, top independent UN human rights experts have warned.

In Turkey, young women play in a soccer match to end violence against women and girls.
UN Women

ILO welcomes first global agreement on professional footballers’ rights

26 September 2022
Global

The UN’s labour agency welcomed on Monday, the first ever global agreement on working conditions and rights of professional football players in both the men’s and women’s game.

Mahamat Said Abdel Kani at the opening of his trial at the International Criminal Court in The Hague (Netherlands) on 26 September 2022.
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Central African Republic: Said trial opens at International Criminal Court

26 September 2022
Africa

The trial of a paramilitary commander accused of carrying out or ordering crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Central African Republic (CAR) began on Monday in The Hague.

Yessie Mosby, one of the Torres Straits Eight climate activists, speaking at the Sydney Biennale.
© Karl Bouro

Australia: Groundbreaking decision creates pathway for climate justice on Torres Strait Islands

23 September 2022
Asia Pacific

The UN Human Rights Committee found on Friday that Australia’s failure to adequately protect indigenous Torres Islanders against climate change impacts, has violated their rights to enjoy their culture, free from “arbitrary interference” with their private life, family and home.

A woman stands in the basement shelter of the severely damaged school where she is deputy principal.
© UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson

War crimes have been committed in Ukraine conflict, top UN human rights inquiry reveals

23 September 2022
Europe

Almost seven months to the day since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, UN-appointed independent human rights investigators said that war crimes have indeed been committed in the conflict.

Systemic racial discrimination, which had prevailed for 50 years in Ireland’s childcare institutions, has yet to be adequately redressed.
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Ireland: Rights experts call for redress for 50 years of systemic racism in childcare institutions

23 September 2022
Europe

UN-appointed independent human rights experts on Friday called on Irish authorities to provide adequate redress for victims of racial discrimination and system racism in Irish childcare institutions, stretching over more than 50 years.

WFP distribution of emergency food rations to conflict affected communities, Ethiopia.
© WFP/Claire Nevill

Ethiopia: Civilians again mired in intractable and deadly war, Human Rights Council hears

22 September 2022
Africa

Ethiopia’s people are once again “mired…in the intractable and deadly consequences” of conflict between Government troops and forces loyal to Tigrayan separatist fighters, who are all likely responsible for war crimes, top rights investigators said on Thursday.