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| Experts: End disproportionate detentions for drug arrests The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called for the closure of all State- and privately-run mandatory drug treatment facilities and the release of all persons detained for drug use or possession for personal use only. “Drug dependency and use must not be treated as a criminal matter but rather a health issue,” said the Group’s Chair Elina Steinerte. 17 March 2022 |
| Report: Women detainees face serious human rights violations“There were beatings. There were people who were out for interrogations and had bruises when they returned. They were crying.” This woman’s account of a pre-trial detention centre in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was one of over a hundred in a new report highlighting extensive human rights violations in the country’s detentions centres. 28 July 2020 |
| "I will bring back hope to people."A Sudanese refugee activist is the 2019 Martin Ennals Award Laureate. Abudul Aziz Muhamat highlights the situation of refugees in offshore detention by the Australian government. Two other finalists included an Afro-Colombian rights campaigner and a human rights lawyer from Turkey. 22 February 2019 |
| Harassment, detention, death: journalists still in perilMore than 1,000 journalists have been killed globally for doing their jobs – reporting and informing the public, with only 10 percent of their cases seeing justice. A recent UN Human Rights Office report and Human Rights Council resolution call for States to take more concrete actions to protect journalists. 2 November 2018 |
| What to know about detention and the right to healthThe UN right to health expert, Dainius Pūras, says that over 10 million people detained in prisons and confined in other institutions are denied their right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. 28 June 2018 |
| UN report details scale and horror of detention in Libya Armed groups in Libya, including those affiliated with the State, hold thousands of people in prolonged and unlawful detention, and submit them to torture and other human rights violations, according to a UN report published on Tuesday. 10 April 2018 |
| Profound violations amid Turkey’s state of emergencyStaggering numbers of people have had their human rights violated under the routine extensions of the state of emergency in Turkey, UN report finds, including hundreds of thousands arrested and arbitrarily dismissed. 20 March 2018 |
| In the best interest of migrant childrenThe prohibition of the detention of migrant children, unaccompanied or with their family members, should be a critical point of discussion at the upcoming UN Summit for Migrants and Refugees, says UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau. 16 September 2016 |
| United Nations inquiry finds crimes against humanity in EritreaCrimes against humanity have been committed in a widespread and systematic manner in Eritrean detention facilities, military training camps and other locations across the country over the past 25 years, according to a new report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea. 8 June 2016 |
| Out of sight, out of mind: deaths in detention in SyriaSyrian men, women, and children have been transferred to one of the dozens of official or secret Government-run detention facilities in the Syrian Arab Republic. Thousands of them have been killed while in custody. 15 February 2016 |
| UN launches ‘Nelson Mandela Rules’ on improving treatment of prisonersThe UN launched the Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, dubbed the ‘Nelson Mandela Rules,’ which Secretary-General as “a great step forward” but also drew attention to three areas that could be strengthened from a human rights perspective. 8 October 2015 |
| Kyrgyzstan establishes a new system to prevent tortureFollowing alarming reports of torture in places of detention after the ethnic conflict in 2010, Kyrgyzstan is the first country in Central Asia to adopt a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) law, which establishes a National Centre as an independent body to monitor places of detention. 18 March 2014 |
| A World without Arbitrary Detention “Arbitrary detention has become endemic and is more and more, in the context of recent protests around the world, used as a weapon to silence and eliminate all opposition,” says Bacre Ndiaye, Director of the Human Rights Council and SP Division. 12 December 2011 |
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