Urgent push needed to achieve reparatory justice for Africans and people of African descent – UN report
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )The UN Human Rights Office today published a report calling on States and others to double down on delivering reparatory justice for Africans and people of African descent, including through formal apologies, truth-seeking, memorialisation, medical and ps
Mali: Türk deplores indefinite suspension of elections, deepening crackdown on civil society.
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday warned of a further deterioration in the human rights situation in Mali, amid deepening democratic reversals, rising insecurity and a crackdown on civil society.
“A war of atrocities:” Sudan civilians deliberately targeted, UN Fact-Finding Mission reports international crimes on large-scale
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )Rival forces in Sudan are deliberately targeting the devastated nation’s civilian population, committing atrocities including war crimes on a large scale, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said in its latest report today.
DRC: UN report raises spectre of war crimes and crimes against humanity in North and South Kivu
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )All parties to the conflict in the Congolese provinces of North and South Kivu have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a UN Human Rights Office report publ
