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UNICEF/Luis Kelly

Mexico cannot move forward ‘without addressing the shadows of the past’, says UN rights chief

10 April 2019
Human Rights

Concluding “five intense, interesting and rewarding working days” in Mexico, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday that the country was going through a “crucial” period where it needed to reckon with “the shadows of the past”, before it can move forward.

UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

Proposal for Spain to reckon with its past during Franco era, welcomed by UN rights experts

25 July 2018
Human Rights

A group of UN human rights experts has welcomed the announcement earlier this month by the Spanish Minister of Justice that the Government is paving the way for a Truth Commission to investigate violations that occurred during the civil war and the era of dictatorship under General Francisco Franco that followed.

UNRWA distributes life-saving assistance to displaced civilians. File
UNRWA

News in Brief 15 March 2018

15 March 2018
News in Brief
  • UNRWA services "need to be maintained at all costs”: UN chief
  • Thousands flee eastern Ghouta as UN prepares to assist those in need
  • OHCHR: “Strong evidence” of torture during investigation into 43 Mexican students’ disappearance
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A wall of photos at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the site of infamous Security Prison S-21, documents the Khmer Rouge's brutal treatment of detainees.
UN Photo/Mark Garten

“New and alarming patterns” of enforced disappearance emerging: Zeid

17 February 2017
General News

The practice of enforced disappearance is not decreasing, it’s “morphing”, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said.

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Bernard Duhaime, Vice-Chair of the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, briefs journalists.
UN Photo/Evan Schneider

UN often first to listen to families of the disappeared

23 October 2015
General News

The more than 40,000 cases of people worldwide who have been arrested, detained or abducted against their will represent human beings, not numbers, a UN human rights expert has said.

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UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré

Laos: UN urges Government to ensure safe return of missing human rights defender

21 December 2012
The United Nations today urged the Government of Laos to do everything possible to ensure that a prominent human rights defender who went missing a week ago is found safe and unharmed.