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Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Human Rights Council
Peru

OHCHR: Peru Crimes against Humanity Fight a Ticking Clock

Nominations for the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence 2024
non-violence

Nominations for the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence 2024

Nimba county prison inmate looks through a window of a cell, Liberia, 2008
© UN Photo
prison conditions

Council of Europe: overcrowding in prison remains an issue

Destruction in the Gaza Strip October 2023
© UNICEF/Hassan Islyeh
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

OHCHR: published report on possible violations of the laws of war by Israel in Gaza

Children holding hands
© Creative Commons / Pick pik
Children

Council of Europe: “Nothing about us without us” - New guidelines on engaging with victims and survivors of childhood sexual violence

Diritti delle persone con disabilità mani tese
European Union

FRA: Political participation of people with disability in the EU

refugees

Padova: Initiatives for World Refugee Day, 20 June 2024

Logo of the World Day Against Child Labour 2024
Children

World Day Against Child Labour, 12th June 2024

Students at risk
Israeli-Palestinian conflict

People at Risk: Scholarships for Palestinian students and academics

Amnesty International
human rights

Amnesty International: New Report on The State of the World’s Human Rights 2023-2024

The village of Manyang, in Sudan, after armed clashes. The photo shows the remains of a hut destroyed during the conflict.
© UN Photo
Sudan

FAO: Famine risk in Sudan is real

UN News: A girl plays in Al-Jufaina camp for displaced people in Marib, Yemen.
© WFP/Mehedi Rahman
Yemen

United Nations: urgent funding appeal for Yemen

The UN Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMC) local team in San José de Oriente participated in a project called "Paint your voice", organized by the Mobile Public Library. Other participants included members of the local community, ex-combatants of the FARC-EP (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army), and representatives of the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace. The project included the creation of a series of murals related to the final peace agreement. This mural focuses on the theme of point 3 of the peace agreement, the end of conflict.
© UN Photo/Cristina Domínguez
Colombia

The right to live in peace of the community of San José de Apartadó and Colombia: the appeal from academics

Criminal Tribunals in The Hague
International Criminal Court

ICC Prosecutor issues applications for arrest warrant for Israeli and Hamas leaders

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
© OHCHR/ Irina Popa
freedom of expression

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: the new Law on Foreign Influence in Georgia affects freedom of expression and association