New York (United Nations), 10 October 2022 (SPS) - French human rights activist Claude Mangin-Asfari, from the Association of Friends of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (AARSD), called before the 4th Commission of the UN General Assembly, in New York, for extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include human rights monitoring for all Sahrawis living in the area occupied by Morocco.
Antonio Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, has warned of the serious threat spyware programmes like Pegasus pose to the UN's work on human rights in a damning report set to be debated next week. Expanding digital surveillance by.
United Nations secretary-general says digital surveillance has stopped human rights defenders from submitting information and made them more vulnerable to reprisal