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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2017), para. 12
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- Expressing grave concern also at the spread of extremism and extremist groups, terrorism and terrorist groups, and strongly condemning all violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law committed in the Syrian Arab Republic by any party to the conflict, in particular so -called ISIL-Da’esh, Al-Nusrah Front and militias fighting on behalf of the regime, Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups and other extremist groups,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine (2020), para. 31
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- Strongly condemning in this regard mass detentions on terrorism grounds and other forms of repression against human rights defenders, including against activists of the Crimean Solidarity civic initiative, which documents abuses on the peninsula and provides humanitarian assistance to the families of victims of politically motivated prosecutions,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Sudan (2001), para. 07
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- Condemning the murder of four Sudanese relief workers in April 1999 while in the custody of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The human rights situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2019), para. 56
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- 38. Also expresses grave concern that, according to the Commission of Inquiry, 2 a vast body of evidence suggested that chlorine had been dropped by helicopter on a residential building and it had received information on the death of at least 49 individuals and the wounding of up to 650 others in Duma on 7 April 2018, and at the findings of the Commission in the same report that, in a series of ground attacks in Duma on 22 January and 1 February 2018, the Syrian authorities and/or affiliated militias had committed the war crime of using prohibited weapons following a pattern previously documented by the Commission concerning the use of chemical weapons;
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The situation in the Syrian Arab Republic (2012), para. 24
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- 2. Strongly condemns the continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms by the Syrian authorities and pro-Government militias, such as the use of force against civilians, massacres, arbitrary executions, the killing and persecution of protestors, human rights defenders and journalists, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, interference with access to medical treatment, torture, sexual violence, and ill-treatment, including against children, as well as any human rights abuses by armed opposition groups;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 05
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- Taking note with appreciation of the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, endorsed by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination on 12 April 2012, in which United Nations agencies, funds and programmes were invited to work with Member States towards a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers in both conflict and __________________ non-conflict situations, with a view to strengthening peace, democracy and development worldwide,
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- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2020), para. 25
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- 22. Also calls upon the Islamic Republic of Iran to launch a comprehensive accountability process in response to all cases of serious human rights violations, including allegations of excessive use of force against peaceful protesters and cases of suspicious deaths in custody, as well as violations involving the Iranian judiciary and security agencies, and calls upon the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran to end impunity for such violations;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- All
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2012), para. 16
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- 3. Further strongly condemns all attacks on journalists, including the deadly terror attack on 20 September and the assassination on 21 September 2012 of a prominent journalist in Mogadishu, calls upon the Government of the Federal Republic of Somalia to protect the safety of the journalist, calls on all States to provide necessary technical assistance to the Government, subnational authorities, the national union of Somali journalists and individual journalist in this regard, and urges State and non-State actors to refrain from intentional violence against and harassment of journalists and to respect freedom of expression; ;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Safety of journalists (2012), para. 27
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- 8. Calls upon States to promote a safe and enabling environment for journalists to perform their work independently and without undue interference, including by means of (a) legislative measures; (b) awareness-raising in the judiciary, law enforcement officers and military personnel, as well as journalists and civil society, regarding international human rights and humanitarian law obligations and commitments relating to the safety of journalists; (c) the monitoring and reporting of attacks against journalists; (d) publicly condemning attacks; and (e) dedicating necessary resources to investigate and prosecute such attacks;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building for Yemen in the field of human rights (2018), para. 20
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- 8. Urges the Government of Yemen to take measures to protect civilians, and to take appropriate measures with a view to ending impunity for all cases involving violations and abuse of human rights and international humanitarian law, including cases of violence against journalists and the detention of journalists and political activists;
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- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights andFundamental Freedoms (2010), para. 28
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- 13. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner, as well as other relevant United Nations bodies, offices, departments and specialized agencies, within their respective mandates, to consider ways in which they can assist States in strengthening the role and security of human rights defenders, including in situations of armed conflict and peacebuilding;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2018), para. 29
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- 1. Condemns unequivocally all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers, such as torture, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention, as well as intimidation, threats and harassment, including through attacks on, or the forced closure of, their offices and media outlets, in both conflict and non-conflict situations;
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the rights to peaceful assembly and freedom of association (2019), para. 21
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- (c) Calls upon all States to pay particular attention to the safety of journalists and media workers observing, monitoring and recording peaceful protests, taking into account their specific role, exposure and vulnerability;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights defenders in the context of the Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2016), para. 09
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- Recognizing the substantial role that human rights defenders can play in supporting efforts to strengthen conflict prevention, peace and development through dialogue, openness, participation and justice, including by monitori ng, reporting on and contributing to the promotion and protection of human rights,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Assistance to Somalia in the field of human rights (2012), para. 14
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- 1. Strongly condemns the grave and systematic human rights abuses and violations perpetrated against the civilian population, including women, children, journalists and human rights defenders, in particular by Al-Shabaab and its affiliates, and calls for their immediate cessation;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2018), para. 39
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- 12. Deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms and all violations of international humanitarian law by the Syrian authorities, the government-affiliated shabbiha militias and those who fight on their behalf, including those deliberately targeting civilians or civilian objects, including attacks on schools, hospitals and places of worship, with heavy weapons, aerial bombardments, clust er munitions, ballistic missiles, barrel bombs, chemical or other weapons and other force against civilians, as well as the starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare, attacks on schools, hospitals and places of worship, massacres, arbitr ary executions, extrajudicial killings, the killing and persecution of peaceful protesters, human rights defenders and journalists, individuals and members of communities on the basis of their religion or belief, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance s, violations of women’s and children’s rights, forced displacement of members of minority groups and of those opposed to the Syrian regime, unlawful interference with access to medical treatment, failure to respect and protect medical personnel, torture, systematic sexual and gender-based violence, including rape in detention, and ill-treatment;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Question of human rights in Afghanistan (2002), para. 24
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- 3. Strongly condemns also the killing of foreign correspondents which occurred in Afghanistan in November 2001, reiterates its firm condemnation of the killing of Iranian diplomats and the correspondents of the Islamic Republic News Agency by the Taliban, as well as the attacks on and the killing of United Nations personnel in territories of Afghanistan at that moment under Taliban control, and calls upon all Afghan parties to cooperate in urgent investigations of those heinous crimes with a view to bringing to justice those responsible;
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 23
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- 1. Condemns unequivocally all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers, such as torture, killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention, intimidation, threats and harassment, including through attacks on or the forced closure of their offices and media outlets, in both conflict and non-conflict situations;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights, technical assistance and capacity-building in Yemen (2017), para. 14
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- Concerned by the allegations of violations of international humanitarian law and of violations and abuses of human rights law in Yemen, including those involving grave violations against children, attacks on humanitarian workers, civilians and civilian infrastructure, including medical facilities and missions and their personnel, as well as schools, the prevention of access for humanitarian aid, the use of import and other restrictions as a military tactic, the severe restrictions on freedom of religion or belief, including for minorities, such as members of the Baha’i faith, and the harassment of and attacks against journalists and human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders,
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2016), para. 33
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- (e) The establishment of information-gathering mechanisms, such as databases, to permit the gathering of verified information about threats and attacks against journalists;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2019), para. 48
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- 21. Calls upon Israel to end all harassment, threats, intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders and civil society actors who peacefully advocate for the rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including by cooperating with United Nations human rights bodies, and underscores the need to investigate all such acts, to ensure accountability and effective remedies, and to take steps to prevent any further such threats, attacks, reprisals or acts of intimidation;
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Persons on the move
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibilityof Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2008), para. 29
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- 13. Requests that the Office of the High Commissioner as well as other relevant United Nations bodies, offices, departments and specialized agencies, within their respective mandates, consider ways in which they can assist States in strengthening the role and security of human rights defenders, including in situations of armed conflict and peacebuilding;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2017), para. 35
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- 9. Deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the continued widespread and systematic gross violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms and all violations of international humanitarian law by the Syrian authorities, the Government-affiliated shabbiha militias and those who fight on their behalf, including those deliberately targeting civilians or civilian objects, including attacks on schools, hospitals and places of worship, with heavy weapons, aerial bombardments, cluster munitions, ballistic missiles, barrel bombs, chemical or other weapons and other force against civilians, as well as the starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare, attacks on schools, hospitals and places of worship, massacres, arbitrary executions, extrajudicial killings, the killing and persecution of peaceful protestors, human rights defenders and journalists, individuals and members of communities on the basis of their religion or belief, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, violations of women’s and children’s rights, forced displacement of members of minority groups, unlawful interference with access to medical treatment, failure to respect and protect medical personnel, torture, systematic sexual and gender-based violence, including rape in detention, and ill-treatment;
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- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Children
- Ethnic minorities
- Women
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Technical assistance and capacity-building to improve human rights in the Sudan (2017), para. 15
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- 9. Also notes several positive developments, such as the recent separation of the attorney general’s office from the Ministry of Justice, the appointment on 16 May 2017 of a chairperson to the Sudan National Commission for Human Rights, the presidential pardon of 259 armed rebel movement members in Darfur, and also of two pastors who had been sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment, and acknowledges the general amnesty announced on 29 August 2017 of representatives of civil society and human rights activists, and on 4 September the release on bail of representatives of civil society;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem (2016), para. 33
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- Stressing the need for protection of human rights defenders engaged in the promotion of human rights issues in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, to allow them to carry out their work freely and without fear of attacks and harassment,
- Topic(s)
- Civil & Political Rights
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists (2018), para. 27
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- 1. Condemns unequivocally all attacks and violence against journalists and media workers, such as torture, killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrest and arbitrary detention, expulsion, intimidation, threats and harassment, online and offline, including through attacks on or the forced closure of their offices and media outlets in both conflict and non-conflict situations;
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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The safety of journalists and the issue of impunity (2016), para. 06
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- Taking note with appreciation of the United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, endorsed by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination on 12 April 2012, in which United Nations agencies, funds and programmes were invited to work with Member States towards a free and safe environment for journalists and media workers in both conflict and non-conflict situations, with a view to strengthening peace, democracy and development worldwide,
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2018), para. 11
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- Expressing grave concern also at the remaining presence of extremism and violent extremist groups, terrorism and terrorist groups, and strongly condemning all violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law committed in the Syrian Arab Republic by any party to the conflict, in particular so-called ISIL (also known as Da’esh), Al-Nusrah Front, Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups, and militias fighting on behalf of the regime, and other violent extremist groups,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic (2020), para. 15
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- Expressing grave concern also at the remaining presence of extremism and violent extremist groups, terrorists and terrorist groups, and strongly condemning all violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law committed in the Syrian Arab Republic by any party to the conflict, in particular so-called ISIL (also known as Da’esh), the Nusrah Front, Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist groups, militias fighting on behalf of the regime, and other violent extremist groups,
- Topic(s)
- Humanitarian
- Violence
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (2006), para. 20
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- 4. Calls upon all States to take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of human rights defenders, at both the local and the national levels, including in times of conflict and peacebuilding;
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Humanitarian
- Person(s) affected
- Activists
- Date added
- Feb 25, 2020
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