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Scam centres are a ‘human rights crisis’, independent experts warn

·May 22, 2025·2 min read

It’s believed that hundreds of thousands of trafficked individuals of various nationalities are forced to carry out fraud in the centres located across Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, the Philippines and Malaysia. “The situation has reached the level of a humanitarian and human rights crisis,” said right experts Tomoya Obokata, Siobhán Mullally...

Belarus: Violations remain ‘widespread and systematic’, says independent expert group

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·February 14, 2025·2 min read

The Group of Independent Experts on the Human Rights Situation in Belarus established in 2024, was tasked with investigating alleged violations since 2020 – when a disputed election saw President Alexander Lukashenko returned to power for a sixth term – and recommending steps toward accountability. The group was established last...

Guterres condemns death of 6 UNRWA staff and 12 others in Israeli strike, calls for independent probe

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·September 12, 2024·2 min read

In a statement released via his Spokesperson, Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the latest Israeli attack on a school serving as a shelter in Nuseirat on Wednesday, which killed six staffers from the UN Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, along with at least 12 others, including women and children. “This incident raises...

Israel-Palestine crisis has ‘reached an unprecedented level of dehumanisation’: Independent rights expert

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·October 30, 2023·5 min read

In an interview with UN News, UN Human Rights Council-appointed expert Francesca Albanese, said it was “impossible to describe the pain and suffering that Israelis are going through because of what happened to them…because there are not only those who were killed, those who were taken hostage, but there is...

Disability rights threatened by bad working conditions for carers: independent expert

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·August 14, 2023·2 min read

Gerard Quinn, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, said that “dead-end jobs, low wages, poor conditions and little room for social mobility” in the care sector are not a way to build resilient systems – as the COVID-19 pandemic has shown. Women carers ‘severely disadvantaged’ Speaking...

‘Increasingly brazen’ war crimes evident in Myanmar, reports Independent Mechanism

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·August 8, 2023·1 min read

These include indiscriminate attacks on civilians from aerial bombing, mass executions of civilians and detained combatants, and large-scale and intentional burning of civilian homes and buildings, resulting in the destruction of entire villages in some cases, the Mechanism said in a news release. “Every loss of life in Myanmar is...

UN independent experts spotlight ‘prima facie war crime’ in East Jerusalem

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·April 14, 2023·2 min read

“There has been an ongoing and unchecked tragedy: the forced eviction of Palestinians from their homes,” they said in a joint statement. “Israel’s transfer of its own population into the occupied territory confirms a deliberate intention to colonize the territory it occupies, a practice strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law,”...

Racist rhetoric in Tunisia must stop, independent UN experts warn

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·April 5, 2023·2 min read

“Tunisia must immediately stop hate speech and violence against migrants from south of the Sahara,” the independent UN-appointed experts said in a statement issued under the Committee’s early warning and urgent action procedure. The mechanism aims at considering situations that may escalate into conflicts with a view to taking preventive...

Crimes against humanity likely committed in Nicaragua, says independent rights probe

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·March 3, 2023·1 min read

Unveiling their first report to be delivered to the Human Rights Council on Friday, the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua urged the international community to impose sanctions on those responsible. The experts concluded that President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo “put into practice these crimes” which continue today. ‘Widespread and...

Mali: Independent rights experts call for probe into Wagner Group’s alleged crimes

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·January 31, 2023·2 min read

The rights experts – who include the UN Working Group on Mercenaries – said that a “climate of terror and complete impunity” has surrounded Wagner’s activities in the northwest African country. Systematic killings “We are particularly worried by credible reports that over the course of several days in late March...