Experts welcome announcement to end UK-Rwanda asylum partnership
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )Independent human rights experts* today welcomed the decision by the newly elected UK Government to scrap the policy to transfer asylum seekers who meet certain conditions to Rwanda for asylum processing.
UN Committee on Migrant Workers publishes findings on Congo, Senegal and Türkiye
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )The findings contain the Committee’s main concerns and recommendations on the implementation of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers
“Small islands bear a climate crisis they did not create”
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Story )“The human rights framework is universal. It compels us to act. Not out of fear, but out of a commitment to solutions – rooted in justice and human dignity. Solutions that will actually work,” Türk said.
Special Rapporteur urges global action to recognise and combat prostitution as a system of violence against women and girls
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )Prostitution must be urgently recognised as a system of violence, exploitation and abuse, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, said
Small Island Developing States summit: UN experts urge States and development banks to support endangered islands
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )UN human rights experts* today called for urgent action by States, financial institutions and development banks to support small island developing countries struggling with the triple burden of climate disasters, debt crisis and the aftermath of the COVID
Digital technologies at borders: A threat to people on the move
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Story )From the moment a person starts their migration journey, technologies are keeping track of their every move, especially at the borders.
Nairobi Declaration posts Africa’s bold climate solutions.
Stories & Blogs New African Magazine (Article )The Nairobi Declaration, issued by African leaders at the Africa Climate Summit in early September will serve as a basis for Africa’s common position in the global climate change process in the lead-up to the COP28 global climate conference.
How to salvage the SDGs in Africa
Stories & Blogs New African Magazine (Article )SDGs in Africa can not only be salvaged, but the process, allied to the continent’s Agenda 2063, can allow Africa to leapfrog into the fourth industrial age and become a major economic cog in the global superstructure.
Africa can overcome its challenges, says AU High Representative for Silencing the Guns
Stories & Blogs New African Magazine (Article )Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas (pictured above), the African Union’s High Representative for Silencing the Guns, talks candidly about the current political and economic status quo of Africa, the decline of democracy, the marginalisation of populations and why ins
AfCFTA to increase demand for transport by 50%
Stories & Blogs New African Magazine (Article )The transport sector is forecast to be one of the big winners from implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area. Busani Bafana highlights the findings of a report by the UN Economic Commission for Africa.