Iran: Harassment, reprisals continue for Mahsa Amini’s family

World News in Brief: Rights violations in Iran, Haiti chaos grows, prison reform in face of pandemic threat

The report to the Human Rights Council said violations and crimes under international law committed in the protests sparked by the death of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022 include extra-judicial and unlawful killings and murder, unnecessary and disproportionate use of force, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, torture, rape, enforced disappearances and gender persecution. “These acts…

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Russia: UN human rights office ‘appalled’ at death of Navalny in prison

Russia: UN human rights office ‘appalled’ at death of Navalny in prison

Mr. Navalny, 47, had lost consciousness and could not be revived, according to media reports. “If someone dies in the custody of the State, the presumption is that the State is responsible – a responsibility that can only be rebutted through an impartial, thorough and transparent investigation carried out by an independent body,” said OHCHR…

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World News in Brief: Abused Afghan women face prison, UNICEF global alert, deadly mpox resurfaces in DRC

World News in Brief: Abused Afghan women face prison, UNICEF global alert, deadly mpox resurfaces in DRC

That’s just one of the shocking findings of a new report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which found that instead of filing a formal complaint, many survivors prefer seeking redress through “traditional dispute resolution mechanisms” within the community for fear of the de facto authorities – including “fear of revictimization”. The report says…

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Israel has turned Palestinian land into a prison, UN says

Israel has turned Palestinian land into a prison, UN says

Geneva: The United Nations has said that Israel has practically imprisoned more than 800,000 Palestinians in the occupied territory of Palestine. According to Al Jazeera’s report, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Representative for the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories, while presenting a report at the ongoing 53rd session of the Human…

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