World News in Brief: UAE urged to free activists, mass school closures in Haiti, aid for Sudanese refugees in Libya

The United Arab Emirates must immediately release 43 activists who have been sentenced to life imprisonment for terror offences, independent UN human rights experts said on Tuesday.  https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2024/07/1152666
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World News in Brief: UAE urged to free activists, mass school closures in Haiti, aid for Sudanese refugees in Libya

Belarus: ‘Unprecedented level of repression’ must end, say UN rights experts

30 May 2023

A large group of UN-appointed independent human rights experts on Tuesday called on the Belarusian authorities to immediately release all those being held on “spurious charges”, simply for exercising their fundamental rights to peaceful assembly, association and expression, to be released without delay.

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Stop weapons supply to Myanmar, rights expert urges

22 Feb 2022

Weapons exports to the military rulers in Myanmar by UN Member States must stop, the UN independent expert on the human rights situation in the country said on Tuesday.

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Syria: Rights experts call for humanitarian access to detained children

01 Apr 2022

Humanitarians must have full and unimpeded access to children arbitrarily held in detention centres in northeast Syria, a group of independent UN human rights experts said on Friday.