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A detainee mother, with sleeping baby on her back, feeds her other child some bread inside the female room of a detention centre in Benghazi, Libya.
OCHA/Giles Clarke

News in Brief 13 April 2020

13 April 2020
News in Brief
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Human rights bodies from 70 countries convene in Nairobi for UN forum

22 October 2008
More than 150 delegates from 71 countries are convening today at a United Nations conference in Nairobi to explore the roles of national bodies set up to protect or promote human rights in relation to the judiciary, law enforcement and monitoring of detention centres.

UN experts urge States to do more to respect rights of detainees

6 October 2008
A group of 13 independent United Nations experts today urged that the human rights of the millions of detainees worldwide be respected, as the world body begins a week-long campaign aimed at stepping up pressure on States, parliaments and other bodies to abolish, or at least reduce, arbitrary and unlawful detention.