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Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 27 March 2020 Subject:Sri Lanka We are troubled by reports that the convicted perpetrator of the...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 27 March 2020 Subject:Uganda We welcome the ruling by the Constitutional Court of Uganda that the...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 27 March 2020 Subject:Ethiopia We are very concerned by the continued communications shutdown in...

GENÈVE (25 mars 2020) – La Haute-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme Michelle Bachelet a appelé les gouvernements à prendre des mesures d'urgence afin de protéger la santé et la...

GINEBRA (25 de marzo de 2020) – La Alta Comisionada de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos, Michelle Bachelet, pidió a los gobiernos que tomen medidas urgentes para proteger la salud y la...

A. Background: The outbreak of COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on 11 March 2020 after the virus had spread to at least 114 countries infecting more than 118,000...

Arabic versionRussian VersionChinese version GENEVA (25 March 2020) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on governments to take urgent action to protect the health...

GINEBRA (24 de marzo de 2020) – Las sanciones sectoriales de amplio espectro que se aplican a países que se enfrentan a la pandemia del coronavirus deberían ser objeto de una reevaluación urgente, en...

GENEVA (24 March 2020) – Broad sectoral sanctions should urgently be re-evaluated in countries facing the coronavirus pandemic, in light of their potentially debilitating impact on the health sector...

GENEVA (20 March 2020) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, today expressed serious concerns about the escalation in intercommunal violence in central and eastern South...