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Somalia: UN human rights expert to conduct first visit 3/28/2022
  • Press Releases
  • Somalia
  • Independent expert on Somalia
 E F S R C A
Human Rights Council Extends Mandates on the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Cambodia and Libya, Appoints Mandate Holders, and Closes its Forty-eighth Regular Session 10/11/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Central African Republic
  • Cambodia
  • Libya
  • Somalia
  • Human Rights Council
  • Human Rights Council
 E F S R C A
Somalia’s human rights record to be examined by Universal Periodic Review 5/3/2021
  • Press Releases
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Somalia
  • Human Rights Council
  • Universal Periodic Review
  • Human Rights Council
 E F S R C A
34th anniversary of UN Declaration on the Right to Development - 4 December 2020 12/3/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Somalia
  • Occupied Palestinian Territory
  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • Mali
  • Special Rapporteur on the right to development
  • Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
  • Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members
  • Independent expert on Somalia
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
  • Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  • Sp. Rapporteur on occupied Palestine
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
  • Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People s Republic of Korea
  • Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity
  • Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
  • Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
  • Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the sale of children
  • Independent Expert on Mali
  • Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
  • Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls
  • Working Group on the use of mercenaries
  • WG on the Right to Development
  • Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development
  • Right to development
  • Right to drinking water
  • Environment
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Leprosy
  • Right to food
  • Independence of judiciary
  • Migration and Human Rights
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
  • Health
  • Trafficking
  • Traffic in persons
  • Freedom of association
  • Slavery
  • Toxics and human rights
  • Disability
  • Extreme poverty
  • International Order
  • Sale of children
  • African Descent
  • Women rights
  • Women
  • Violence against women
  • Mercenaries
  • Human Rights and International Solidarity
 E F S R C A
Governments must do more to prevent slavery and exploitation during COVID-19 pandemic 11/30/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Occupied Palestinian Territory
  • Somalia
  • Myanmar
  • Mali
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
  • Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination
  • Sp. Rapporteur on occupied Palestine
  • Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
  • Special Rapporteur on the right to development
  • Independent expert on Somalia
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Myanmar
  • Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  • Special Rapporteur on the elimination of discrimination against persons affected by leprosy and their family members
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the sale of children
  • Independent Expert on Mali
  • Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
  • Working Group on the use of mercenaries
  • Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons
  • Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
  • Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
  • WG on Disappearances
  • Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
  • Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls
  • Committee against Torture
  • Committee on Enforced Disappearance
  • Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  • WG on Arbitrary Detention
  • Committee on the Rights of the Child
  • Committee on Migrant Workers
  • Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
  • Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
  • Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
  • Slavery
  • Traffic in persons
  • Racism and racial discrimination
  • International Order
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Independence of judiciary
  • Right to development
  • Toxics and human rights
  • Migrant workers
  • Leprosy
  • Extreme poverty
  • Education
  • Children rights
  • Environment
  • Mercenaries
  • Right to drinking water
  • Health
  • Terrorism
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
  • Internally displaced persons
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Transnational corporations
  • Albinism
  • Disability
  • Enforced or involuntary disappearances
  • Cultural rights
  • Women rights
  • Women
  • Arbitrary detention
  • Migration and Human Rights
  • Sale of children
  • Minorities
 E F S R C A
Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on draft Sexual Intercourse Related Crimes Law in Somalia 8/10/2020
  • Press Releases
  • Somalia
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
 E F S R C A
Somalia needs ongoing international help to tackle rights challenges, says UN expert 7/25/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Somalia
  • Independent expert on Somalia
 E F S R C A
Press statement by Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia Mr Bahame Tom M. Nyanduga 7/25/2019
  • Statements/Messages
  • Somalia
  • Independent expert on Somalia
 E F S R C A
Somalia: Respect for human rights vital for future elections - UN report 8/13/2018
  • Press Releases
  • Somalia
  • High Commissioner for Human Rights
 E F S R C A
Somalia: UN expert urges action to stop children being kidnapped and used as fighters 5/4/2018
  • Press Releases
  • Somalia
  • Independent expert on Somalia
 E F S R C A
       
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