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Cambodia: Long Prison Terms For Former Opposition Leaders Appalling, Say UN Experts

Saturday, 6 March 2021, 6:10 pm GENEVA (5 March 2021) – UN human rights experts today deplored the disproportionate prison terms handed to exiled senior leaders of the disbanded Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) and called on the Government to protect freedoms of association and expression to ensure democratic processes and political activities. The experts said the Phnom Penh Municipal Court’s verdict could potentially deprive their right to engage in public affairs. Since June 2019, more than 150 people associated with the CNRP have been arrested detained, and subjected to judicial proceedings. On 1 March, the court convicted nine senior leaders of the former CNRP in absentia on charges

States Must Find Political Will To Prevent Murders Of Human Rights Defenders: UN Expert

GENEVA (5 March 2021) – UN expert Mary Lawlor said today hundreds of human rights defenders are killed for their peaceful work every year, and States must find the political will to protect them and prevent the killings. “It is shocking that between .

Permanent State Of Emergency Cannot Be Used As A Justification Or Ground For Unilateral Sanctions

GENEVA (4 March 2021) - Emergency declarations by the U.S. Government that authorise unilateral sanctions are resulting in severe human rights violations and must be brought in line with International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), .

UN Expert: Water Crisis Is Worsening, Urgent Response Needed

Thursday, 4 March 2021, 7:51 am GENEVA (3 March 2021) – A UN human rights expert today called for a robust and rapid global response to the world’s worsening water crisis, saying that climate change had become a “risk multiplier” - exacerbating pollution, scarcity and disasters. “The world faces a water crisis and it is getting worse,” David Boyd, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, said in a report presented to the Human Rights Council. “Human use of water, water pollution and the degradation of aquatic ecosystems continue to accelerate because of population growth, economic growth, the climate emergency, land-use change, extractivism, inefficient use of water, and weak

Debt Crises: UN Expert Faults Credit Rating Agencies, Urges Reform

Thursday, 4 March 2021, 7:40 am GENEVA (3 March 2021) - A UN human rights expert today called for urgent reforms to the international debt architecture, saying the ‘big three’ credit rating agencies had excessive influence over lending decisions, and conditions and interest rates of sovereign debts. In her first report to the Human Rights Council, the UN Independent Expert on debt and human rights, Yuefen Li, said that “past financial and debt crises, in particular the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the Asian financial crisis, already exposed the inherent structural problems of credit rating agencies”. “Instead of warning of the coming of a debt crisis, and playing a role in preventing it, they end

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