COVID-19: Health care heroes need protection
States and businesses must urgently step up their efforts to ensure that health care workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide receive adequate protective equipment, said Baskut Tuncak, UN Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances. “The brave doctors,...
No exceptions with COVID-19: “Everyone has the right to life-saving interventions”
The COVID-19 crisis cannot be solved with public health and emergency measures only; all other human rights must be addressed too, UN human rights experts* said today. “Everyone, without exception, has the right to life-saving interventions and this responsibility...
Enforced disappearances: UN experts urge States to “stop looking the other way”
Photo Credit: Marwan Tahtah States around the world must act urgently to prevent enforced disappearances rather than looking the other way, said a group of UN human rights experts. “It is our responsibility to alert the Human Rights Council and the international...
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances: States must act on ‘disappearances’ of migrants
Progressively more precarious movements of migrants undertaking long and perilous journeys – often as a result of States’ rigid migratory policies – expose many to heightened risks of human rights violations, including enforced disappearances, UN experts* say....