Topic: UN rights
Bucha killings raise ‘serious’ questions about possible war crimes: UN human rights chief
Senior UN officials have echoed the Secretary-General’s call for an independent investigation into the killing of scores of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, following the emergence this past weekend of graphic images from the suburb of the capital, Kyiv.
Ukraine war: Russia used cluster weapons at least 24 times
Credible reports indicate that Russian armed forces have used cluster munitions in populated areas of Ukraine, at least two dozen times since they invaded on 24 February, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday.
Ukraine: UN calls for safe passage from conflict zones, records 1,123 civilian casualties
UN chief António Guterres called on Sunday for a pause in fighting to allow civilians to escape conflict zones in Ukraine, as the UN rights body (OHCHR) announced it had recorded 1,123 civilian casualties since the beginning of Russia’s armed attack on the country.
UN rights chief calls for ceasefire in Ukraine
Russia’s military attack on Ukraine has “opened a new and dangerous chapter in world history,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet told an urgent debate on Thursday, leading calls for a ceasefire.
Rights experts condemn ‘unrelenting human rights violations’ at Guantánamo
The detention camp, sited within a US naval base on the island, was set up in 2002 to house prisoners captured in Afghanistan, and at its peak housed some 780 people, most of whom were detained without trial.
Release Khurram Parvez: UN’s second appeal to India in three weeks
The United Nations on Wednesday said that the Narendra Modi government was targeting Kashmir's prominent human rights defender Khurram Parvez for speaking about rights violations.
