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Russia urged to free opposition leader Kara-Murza amid failing health

·July 29, 2023·2 min read

Mr. Kara-Murza, 41, an outspoken critic of the Kremlin and the war in Ukraine, was arbitrarily arrested in Moscow on 11 April 2022. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison a year later on charges of “high treason”, “disseminating false information about the army of the Russian Federation” and...

Russia must provide ‘urgent and comprehensive’ care to opposition leader Navalny: Rights experts

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·May 15, 2023·2 min read

Alice Edwards, who is officially known as the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, said she was “distressed by the deteriorating state of Mr. Navalny’s health and the apparent lack of satisfactory diagnosis and medical treatment”. ‘A form of torture’ In a statement also backed...

Human Rights Council: Russia responsible for ‘widespread death and destruction’ in Ukraine

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·February 28, 2023·4 min read

Speaking only days since a large majority of the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, the UN chief stressed that Russia’s decision to go to war against its neighbour on 24 February 2022 had unleashed “widespread death, destruction and displacement”....

Closure of Moscow Helsinki Group, ‘yet another blow to human rights’ in Russia: OHCHR

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·January 27, 2023·1 min read

Maria Hurtado said in a statement that the judgement was just the latest “in a series of actions against civil society”, journalists, other media and opposition groups and human rights defenders. MHG was founded in 1976 by well-known dissidents and reported on human rights violations in the former Soviet Union...

UN chief warmly welcomes Russia decision to end suspension from Ukraine grain deal |

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·November 3, 2022·2 min read

The UN-brokered deal which is implemented through a Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) in Istanbul involving Russia, Ukraine, and Türkiye, was signed in July, to allow grain, oil and other foodstuffs to leave the war-torn country for markets overseas – many of which are in desperate need of food from Europe’s...

Black Sea grain deal shipments on hold Wednesday, following Russia suspension |

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·November 1, 2022·2 min read

In the regular daily briefing to reporters in New York on Tuesday, UN Deputy Spokesperson, Farhan Haq, said the Ukrainian, Turkish and UN delegations that remain active in the deal, had reached agreement on the pause at the JCC, which is based in Istanbul. Russia declared that it was putting...

UN chief reaffirms support for deals to ensure export food and fertilizer from Ukraine and Russia |

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·October 29, 2022·1 min read

The Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement brokered by the UN and Türkiye in July, which was set up to reintroduce vital food and fertilizer exports from Ukraine to the rest of the world, is due to run out in the second half of November, but it can be extended,...

Sanctions on Russia already hitting remittance-dependent countries in Central Asia: IOM |

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·June 16, 2022·3 min read

The countries of Central Asia retain their Soviet-era socio-economic and political ties with the Russian Federation. Migration, and in particular remittances, is at the center of this intricate, historical relationship, say Hyo Jeong Jung, IOM Labour Migration Specialist based in Kyrgyzstan, and Michael Newson, Senior Regional Labour Mobility and Social Inclusion...