"RAVINA SHAMDASANI"

Israeli forces were responsible for the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank - not indiscriminate Palestinian shots - the UN human rights office alleged on Friday. UNTV CH

Human Rights spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani expressed concern about “the continued lack of information on the whereabouts and wellbeing of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous rights defender Bruno Araújo Pereira” in Brazil. OHCHR

On Friday, the UN human rights office condemned the death sentence handed down to three foreign fighters in Ukraine by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. “Such trials against prisoners of war amount to a war crime,” said OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani. UNTV CH

UN Human Rights Office expressed its concern about “the Government of Bangladesh’s decision not to approve the renewal of registration for Odhikar, a prominent and vocal human rights organisation in the country.” UNTV CH

Mali’s ban on two major international broadcasters operating inside the country is a worrying development and reflects growing regional intolerance towards freedom of expression, the UN rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday. UNTV CH

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet called on Wednesday on the Sudanese authorities to protect the population of West Darfur and take urgent steps to prevent further outbreaks of communal violence after more than a hundred people were killed in attacks by armed assailants between 22 and 24 April. OHCHR

Since the Russian invasion nearly two months ago, Ukraine has been plunged into a human rights and humanitarian crisis that has devastated the lives of civilians throughout the country and beyond, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Friday. UNTV CH

On Friday, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet condemned the “horrors” committed against civilians, and the World Health Organization warned that it feared the worst in devastated areas in the east and south of the country. UNTV CH

Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office expressed “profound frustration and disappointment” at the failure to commitments to re-open schools for all girls in Afghanistan, adding that the de facto authorities’ failure to reopen schools for girls above the sixth grade is “deeply damaging for Afghanistan.” UNTV CH

Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office said, “we have just released a new report that sets out, a continuing spiral of violence in Myanmar since the 1st of February coup of last year. The military is continuing to engaged in systematic and widespread human rights violations and abuses – some of which may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.” UNTV CH