"OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR"

A spokesperson for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recognised “the complex challenge El Salvador faces in tackling criminality,” but stressed that “weakening the rule of law and the integrity of the legal system by derogating from fair trial rights is not the answer.” UNTV CH

The UN Human Rights Office is “deeply troubled by the detention of prominent environmental human rights defender Hoang Thi Minh Hong in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam, on Wednesday this week”, spokesperson Marta Hurtado said. UNTV CH

The UN Human Rights Office has “growing concerns that the authorities in Nicaragua are actively silencing any critical or dissenting voices in the country and are using the justice system to this end,” spokesperson Marta Hurtado said. UNTV CH

The second Permanent Forum on People of African Descent started Tuesday in New York. The theme of the session is "Realizing the dream: A United Nations Declaration on the promotion, protection and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent". UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, held a wide-ranging press conference in Geneva during which he commented, among others, on the issues of systemic racism, sexual violence in Darfur, the effects of cyclone Mocha in Myanmar and the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan. UNTV CH

Un rapport d’une mission d’établissement des faits du Bureau des droits de l'homme des Nations Unies a conclu qu'il y a de fortes indications que plus de 500 personnes auraient été tuées - la grande majorité sommairement exécutées - par les troupes maliennes et du personnel militaire étranger au cours d'une opération militaire de cinq jours dans le village de Moura, au centre du Mali, en mars 2022. HCDH

“I strongly condemn this wanton violence, in which both sides have trampled international humanitarian law,” said the UN human rights chief Volker Türk at the opening of the Council’s Special Session on Sudan. UNTV CH

The UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk expressed dismay at the frighteningly high number of executions this year in Iran and called on authorities to follow the lead of most other States and abolish the death penalty or halt all executions. UNTV CH