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Shopkeepers have shuttered their stores in old Delhi, India following the government's announcement of a nationwide lockdown for 21 days to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Sandeep Datta

News in Brief 28 September 2020

28 September 2020
News in Brief
  • Delhi track dwellers must not be evicted, warn rights experts
  • Rapporteurs' investigations hit by UN cash crunch
  • Largest prisoner release agreed in Yemen talks
  • Nigeria urged to overturn death penalty for 'blasphemous' singer
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Women and children sit on mattresses on the floor at a detention centre in Tripoli, Libya.
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Rise in women prisoners and COVID measures, ‘making sentences worse’

16 July 2020
Human Rights

More than 700,000 women are in prison around the world, and that number is growing much faster than men, the Human Rights Council has heard.

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

Political prisoners should be among first released in pandemic response, says UN rights chief

3 April 2020
Human Rights

The decision by many Governments to release prisoners to slow the transmission of new coronavirus, was welcomed on Friday by the UN’s top rights official, Michelle Bachelet.