human rights

News in Brief 6 July 2021

  • Displacement crisis driving up hunger in northern Mozambique: WFP
  • OHCHR voices ‘deep concern’ over protesters’ deaths in Eswatini
  • Iran urged to end long-term detention to ‘silence’ rights defenders
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UN Catch-Up Dateline Geneva – Climate change scare for business, COVID’s $2.4 trillion tourism hit and Tigray alert

In this week’s show, the worrying rise of internet blackouts to stifle dissent and why going green is a matter of survival for small firms. Also, the pandemic’s $2.4 trillion hit to global tourism, what new migrant worker numbers tell us about the world economy - and an alert over the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.

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News in Brief 1 July 2021

  • Internet shutdowns by repressive governments now ‘entrenched’
  • Malaria tops health threats facing world’s most vulnerable: UNHCR
  • Turkey urged not to withdraw from key convention on tackling violence against women
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3'35"

Urgent action needed to end ‘inhumane conditions’ facing Haiti prisoners: UN rights chief

Extreme overcrowding and lack of access to food, water and health, are among the ‘inhumane conditions’ that prisoners in Haiti must endure, often over the course of many years, according to a new UN report.

News in Brief 30 June 2021

  • Rights expert calls for global 'pandemic protection fund'
  • Tourism braces for $2.4 trillion hit to global economy
  • Migrant worker numbers rise globally by five million: ILO
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3'40"

News in Brief 29 June 2021

  • Pressure-cooker heatwave danger in Canada, UN northwest: WMO
  • Mali alert: rampant impunity for human rights abuses: Bachelet
  • Tigray crisis can be resolved, with aid access, agencies say
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3'34"

News in Brief 28 June 2021

  • UN rights office highlights policing reforms to address systemic racism 
  • Abuse of rights activists in China remains endemic, says independent expert 
  • UN health agency urges AI to be used in public interest in all countries 
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3'48"

News in Brief 24 June 2021

  • More countries need to vaccinate 82.4 million on the move: UNHCR
  • Africa's third-wave of COVID can be pushed back - WHO regional head
  • Torture rehabilitation must be a universal right, urges UN expert
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3'32"

News in Brief 22 June 2021

  • 'Invisible' stateless people risk missing COVID jabs: UNHCR
  • Scale back on raw fish consumption in Southeast Asia, says FAO
  • Eritrea human rights: 'No tangible signs of progress'
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3'9"

News in Brief 21 June 2021

  • Tigray: Bachelet higlights 'serious violations of international law'
  • Human Rights Council urged to support 'new social contract'
  • COVID's rolled back sustainable development across weak economies
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