World News in Brief: Human rights in Haiti, 750,000 hit by East Africa floods, Namibia health milestone

UN independent human rights experts on Monday issued a stark warning about the ongoing severe violations of women and girls’ rights in Haiti, highlighting the near total impunity of armed gangs amid the ongoing crisis there.

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World News in Brief: Human rights in Haiti, 750,000 hit by East Africa floods, Namibia health milestone

Climate change heightens threats of violence against women and girls

05 Oct 2022

Climate change and environmental degradation are escalating the risk and prevalence of violence against women and girls across the world, a UN-appointed independent human rights expert warned on Wednesday.

South Sudan: ‘hellish existence’ for women and girls, new UN report reveals

21 Mar 2022

Widespread sexual violence against women and girls in conflict is being fueled by systemic impunity, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Monday.

UN expert calls for urgent action to end ‘pandemic of femicide and violence against women’

23 Nov 2020

COVID-19 is overshadowing what has become a “pandemic of femicide” and related gender-based violence against women and girls, said independent UN human rights expert Dubravka Šimonović on Monday, calling for the universal establishment of national initiatives to monitor and prevent such killings. 