YEREVAN, 18 June 2010 – Upon the conclusion of her visit to Armenia, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, issued the following statement: (all UN press releases) | (más…)
El 18/06/2010En: Naciones Unidas
El 16/06/2010En: UE
On the eve of celebrations of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s fiftieth anniversary of independence, the European Parliament has adopted unanimously an emergency resolution condemning in the strongest terms the murder of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, a well respected Congolese human rights defender and president of the NGO “Voice of the Voiceless” (VSV), found murdered in his car in the suburbs of Kinshasa, on the 2 June, and the fate of his driver Faithful Edad Bazan, who has still not been located.
On 4th June Heidi Hautala and Rebecca Harms, Co-president of the Green/Efa Group, sent a letter to the Ambassador of DRC calling for an effective investigation into the killing. (see press release) | (all EU resolutions) | (más…)
El 12/06/2010En: UE
Brussels, 11 June 2010 – The EU deplores the Sichuan Provincial High People’s Court decision to uphold Tan Zuoren’s sentence of 5 years on the charge of “subversion of state power”. The verdict against Tan Zuoren is entirely incompatible with his right to freedom of expression and does not meet international standards of fairness.
The EU also deeply regrets that Mr Tan was not allowed to conduct a proper defence and that the trial that led to this verdict was procedurally flawed, depriving Mr Tan of the opportunity to exercise fully his right to defend himself. The EU regrets that international calls for the re-opening of the case have been ignored. The EU therefore reiterates its calls to the Chinese government unconditionally to release Mr. Tan Zuoren.
GENEVA – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Margaret Sekaggya, will undertake her first fact-finding mission to Armenia from 14-18 June 2010, in what will also be the first visit to the country by a UN Human Rights envoy since 2000.
“The recent review of Armenia’s human rights record in the Universal Periodic Review of the Human Rights Council,” the independent expert said, “provides a good opportunity to discuss the recommendations pertinent to the human rights defenders mandate and to assess the mechanisms the Government has already and intends to put in place in the future in order to implement them.” (más…)
El 09/06/2010En: Naciones Unidas
GENEVA – A group of UN independent experts* welcomed the announced suspension of the chief of the Congolese National Police, General Inspector John Numbi, and the arrest of several police officers in the investigation of the killing late last week of human rights defender Floribert Chebeya Bahizire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and the disappearance of his driver, Fidele Bazana Edadi. (más…)
Sitio web inter-mecanismos
En 2008 (Bruselas), 2009 (Washington), 2010 (Varsovia) y principios de 2012 (Ginebra), 4 reuniones “inter-mechanismos” fueron organizadas por el Observatorio, renuiendo los titulares de mandato de protección de los defensores (más…)
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