On the occasion of Transgender Day of Visibility, the United States proudly recognizes transgender and gender non-conforming persons and their continued struggle for a life of equality, security, and dignity.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 31 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 31 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
During the 46th session, the United States co-sponsored 17 resolutions on crucial human rights situations, from Belarus to South Sudan, from Myanmar to North Korea, and on important human rights issues, such as defending freedom of religion or belief.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 24 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States condemns Russia’s brutal occupation of Crimea and its aggression in eastern Ukraine.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
We are deeply concerned by reports of recent human rights abuses, including reports of violence against civilians, sexual exploitation and abuse, and unjust detention committed by foreign private security contractors and the Central African Security Forces.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
The United States remains deeply concerned by continuing insecurity and human rights abuses by violent extremists, self-defense groups, and security forces in central and northern Mali.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
We call on the government to combat impunity through expedited operationalization of transitional justice processes and the investigation and, where warranted, prosecution of all reported abuses.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
I grew up in the segregated South. I was bused to a segregated school, and on weekends, the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses on lawns in our neighborhood.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
A great deal more needs to be done; many of our own countries suffer from historical inequities that, decades and even centuries later, still cast long shadows over the present day. But we believe that with resolve and cooperation, we can make a lasting difference globally.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
We have a very simple position. States that commit human rights violations must be held to account.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
The Special Procedures system is an indispensable centerpiece of the UN human rights architecture. More than anyone else, mandate holders shine a light on human rights abuses and violations without fear or censure.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
When President Biden made clear his intent to reengage with the world, he did so with confidence in our diplomatic capacity, the strength of our partnerships and alliances, and the power of our example.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 17 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR-2021
American leadership still matters. We will exercise that leadership with humility, knowing that we have a great deal of work to do at home to enhance our standing abroad, but also knowing that no single country acting alone, can fully and effectively address these problems.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 17 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR-2021
The U.S. government has carefully reviewed the 347 recommendations it received during this UPR review. We have accepted in whole or in part a total of 280 recommendations, or approximately 81%. We’re very proud of this high number.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 17 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News, The U.S. and the U.N. | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR-2021
Hate speech erodes democratic values and undermines efforts to create inclusive societies.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
Midterm review of the International Decade for People of African Descent
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 12 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
The United States remains deeply concerned about the human rights situations …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 12 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights, Mission Geneva
We draw particular attention to restrictions on freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly, the constrained space for civil society and political opposition, and the application of terrorism legislation against peaceful critics.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 12 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
We call on the Russian Federation for the immediate and unconditional release of Mr Navalny and of all those unlawfully or arbitrarily detained.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 12 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
We stand with the people of Myanmar as they pursue democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms, and respect for the rule of law.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 11 March, 2021 | Topics: Ambassador, Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
We remain concerned about reports of intimidation and violence by members of state security, intelligence forces, and their proxies and urge the government to continue to investigate and prosecute cases of unlawful killings, forced disappearance, torture, sexual violence, and other human rights abuses.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 11 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
56 countries led by the Lima Group co-sponsored a joint statement at the HRC on the persistent deterioration of the Human Rights Situation in Venezuela.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 11 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
The human rights situation in Venezuela continues to deteriorate.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
During this pandemic, transparency and freedom of expression for the media, both online and offline, are even more important.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights, Mission Geneva
South Sudan faces a surge in widespread sub-national conflict, and violations and abuses of human rights may now be more prevalent than during the devastating civil war.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
We will continue to consider all appropriate tools to impose costs on those responsible for human rights violations and abuses in Iran.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
We remain deeply concerned with the human rights situation in Iran.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights, Mission Geneva
Democratic progress demands that all citizens have equal opportunity to participate in political processes through the exercise of the freedoms of peaceful assembly, association, and expression.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
The United States was pleased to join over 90 co-sponsors of this joint statement. Joint Statement – Human Rights of Migrants Delivered by by Ambassador Socorro Flores Liera Permanent Representative of Mexico on behalf of 95 States 46th session of the Human Rights Council March 9th, 2021 Madam President, I have the honor to deliver …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 March, 2021 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States played a leading role in establishing the Convention against Torture.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
The United States thanks Special Rapporteur Lawlor for her report highlighting the deteriorating situation for human rights defenders globally and emphasizing the seriousness with which governments must take threats of violence against defenders.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
The United States was pleased to join the co-sponsors of the following joint statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council. Statement at the occasion of International Women’s Day Delivered by by Ambassador Socorro Flores Liera Permanent Representative of Mexico on behalf of Finland, Mexico and 60 States 46th session of the Human Rights Council …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Gender Issues, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
We look forward to exploring all available tools, including Resolution 16/18 and the Istanbul Process, to address the challenge of anti-Muslim discrimination hatred and discrimination.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
The United States strongly supports the goal of universal access to safe, clean, and affordable water and sanitation.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
Cultural expression and human rights are inherently intertwined, and global efforts to address the COVID-19 pandemic must work to promote cultural expression and safeguard human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 3 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
The United States views the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all – including individuals with disabilities – as critical elements of a just and prosperous society.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 3 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
Human traffickers take advantage of the increased economic hardship on families, restrictions on children’s movements, and curtailed social services during the pandemic to exploit children further.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 March, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
We support her continued focus on the deteriorating human rights situations in Belarus, Burundi, China, the DPRK, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iran, Nicaragua, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Venezuela, and Yemen, among others.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 26 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
We share the report’s concern over the serious human rights abuses in Yemen, including reported uses of torture, sexual violence, arbitrary detention, denial of fair trial guarantees, and enforced disappearances.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 25 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States remains deeply troubled by the Belarusian government’s crackdown on peaceful protesters, including reports of torture, continued detention of over 200 political prisoners, and refusal to engage in genuine dialogue with civil society, including the Coordination Council.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 25 February, 2021 | Topics: Ambassador, Chargé D’Affaires, Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights, Mission Geneva
The United States shares your concern that the government continues to protect officials, security forces, and armed groups implicated in human rights abuses from investigation or prosecution.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 25 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
The United States shares OHCHR’s concerns and urges Sri Lanka to make public a strategy and timetable for implementation of the report’s recommendations.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 25 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States remains deeply concerned by Eritrean troops in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, and by credible reports that they are committing grave human rights abuses and forcibly returning Eritrean refugees to Eritrea.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 24 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
I’m pleased to announce the United States will seek election to the Human Rights Council for the 2022-24 term.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 24 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights, Mission Geneva
Chargé d’affaires Cassayre: The U.S. will continue to take steps to promote human rights and the inclusion of marginalized populations, as central to the global COVID-19 response.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 February, 2021 | Topics: Ambassador, Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States condemns the military’s February 1 coup against the democratically-elected government of Myanmar.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 12 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights, Mission Geneva
Today, I again call on the Burmese military to immediately release the democratic political leaders and activists and — that they’re now detaining, including Aung San Suu Kyi. And she is — and also Win Myint, the President.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 11 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News, President of the United States | Tags: Human Rights
The Biden administration has recommitted the United States to a foreign policy centered on democracy, human rights, and equality.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights, Mission Geneva
I am pleased to inform you that this morning, Secretary Blinken will announce that the United States will reengage with the United Nations Human Rights Council as an observer.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 February, 2021 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights, Mission Geneva
Today, President Biden is taking additional action to reassert our values on the world stage, to restore clarity and leadership to how America makes its foreign policy, and to support and empower the national security professionals who execute our policies, building a modern national security force that looks like the nation it serves.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 February, 2021 | Topics: Fact Sheets, Featured Event, Human Rights, News, President of the United States | Tags: Arms Control, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs
Our international partners can be assured that advancing human rights for all individuals, with no exception or caveat, is a U.S. foreign policy priority.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our foreign policy.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Global Health, Human Rights, News, President of the United States, The U.S. and the U.N. | Tags: Arms Control, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs
The United States applauds Nauru for decriminalizing consensual adult same-sex sexual activity since its last review.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 February, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We commend São Tomé and Príncipe’s commitment to the promotion of human rights, both domestically and internationally.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 28 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We recognize the reforms Georgia has enacted since its last UPR, but urge greater action to strengthen checks and balances, justice and accountability …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 26 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We commend Rwanda’s progress increasing gender equality and access to education.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 25 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States recognizes Myanmar’s recent national election as an important step in its democratic transition.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 25 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
Austria is a consistent, global leader in promoting human rights through its diplomacy and aid programs.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
An enduring solution to the Syrian conflict that will help pave the way for sustainable refugee returns is only possible through the political process outlined in UN Security Council Resolution 2254.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 January, 2021 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, Featured Event, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs, News | Tags: Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs
We encourage Oman to continue to advance reforms to counter trafficking in persons and equal rights for women, including the right to transmit nationality to their children on an equal basis with men.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States applauds the Government of Nepal’s hosting of refugees; however, we are concerned by pending agreements that put them at risk of forced returns.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We commend Saint Lucia’s continued commitment to the promotion of human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 20 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States commends Australia for continuing to protect and promote human rights globally and regionally.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 20 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We commend Saint Kitts and Nevis’ continued commitment to the promotion of human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We applaud Mauritania’s efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism and its leadership role in the region.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
We are concerned by discrimination against women under sect-based personal status laws.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States commends the FSM for taking concrete steps since its last review to combat sexual and domestic violence.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 January, 2021 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
Remarks at the virtual event “Religious Freedom in Tibet: The Appointment of Buddhist Leaders and the Succession of the Dalai Lama” Robert A. Destro Assistant Secretary and U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor December 4, 2020 As Delivered Thank you for inviting me to join you and thank …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 December, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
Cuba, Russia, China, and Iran have again demonstrated that they do not care about human rights or democracy in Venezuela, but are only interested in propping up the illegitimate regime of Nicolas Maduro.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases | Tags: Human Rights
As we continue our cooperation with the UPR process and consider the many recommendations, we wish to offer some initial reactions to certain assertions made by a few delegations during the UPR.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases
We thank the UPR working group for its efforts to make the UPR a strong, and universal process for all nations and we look forward to continuing these efforts in the future.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
The United States recommends that Jamaica: 1. End abuses by security forces and other government agents involved in extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, and life-threatening prison conditions, and ensure swift accountability for those who commit abuses, by implementing existing mechanisms to investigate and punish abuses, and clearing administrative backlogs.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 11 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We are concerned by reports of targeted assassinations and abductions of civil society activists. We express concern about contamination by mines and booby traps around Tripoli, the massacre of migrants in Mizda, and the unlawful recruitment and use of child soldiers by the GNA and the LNA.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 11 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We urge the Croatian government to promote religious tolerance and ensure no religious discrimination and harassment against minority religious groups.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States Constitution, along with federal and state laws, establishes standards of care to which all inmates are entitled. The Federal Bureau of Prisons, or BOP, meets its constitutional and statutory mandates by confining inmates in prisons and community-based facilities that are safe, humane, and appropriately secure.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
Respect for universal values, including the rule of law, is a core interest for the United States at home and around the world.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
It’s a pleasure to provide you some information on how the United States protects human rights related to labor.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
I am honored to talk to you about the importance of health to the U.S. government, and what we are doing to help people who live in the United States live healthy lives.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
Since our last UPR, we’ve continued to support programs to protect individuals from discrimination, to combat homelessness, and to increase affordability and choice in the housing market.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
Today, I want to highlight for this body a few of the ways that DHS protects the rights of Americans and those seeking humanitarian protection in the United States.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
These are just a few examples of how Utah, like other states in our nation, is at the forefront of protecting human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
The United States is proud of its human rights record, and we are committed to strengthening and deepening human rights protections within our country in the continuous pursuit of a more perfect union.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
I’d like to begin today with issues that have been in focus in recent months and about which we have received many questions, including the use of force by law enforcement.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
Our report represents not just the work of the Department of State, but also the Departments of Interior, Justice, Homeland Security, Labor, Housing & Urban Development, Health & Human Services, Education, Defense, and others.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
The United States is immensely proud of its human rights record. Our commitment to human rights rests on a firm political and moral commitment to accountability and transparency.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights, US-UPR
The United States congratulates the Republic of the Marshall Islands on its election to the Human Rights Council and welcomes its global leadership on human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We encourage Bulgaria to continue efforts to reform its judicial system.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 6 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We are concerned with the lack of accountability for actions by the Military Police of Public Order and Honduran National Police during the 2017 post-election protests.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States applauds Andorra for its excellent human rights record.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The presence of an active and free civil society is necessary to secure democratic progress in Maldives.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States remains committed to partnering with Mongolia on capacity-building programs to foster the rule of law and strong, independent judicial and anti-corruption agencies
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We commend Panama’s continued commitment to the promotion of human rights, both domestically and internationally. Improvements can still be made to prison conditions and combatting forced child labor.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 3 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We are concerned by limited accountability for trafficking, child labor, and police abuses. We remain concerned by pervasive levels of gender-based violence and discrimination.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 3 November, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We recommend that Liberia: 1. Vigorously investigate and prosecute trafficking cases, raise community awareness of what constitutes trafficking, and increase funding for prosecutors in charge of cases…
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 November, 2020 | Topics: Deputy Chief of Mission, Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
Belarus’s August 9 presidential elections were fraudulent, and we are deeply concerned by the ongoing use of violence, intimidation, and repression against the Belarusian people.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 November, 2020 | Topics: Events, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
The U.S. government will not participate in the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIGWG) session this week on the articulation of a business and human rights treaty. We continue to oppose this treaty based on its substance and the process around its development.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 26 October, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases | Tags: Human Rights
As the Human Rights Council rightly turned its attention to Belarus today, the United States stands in solidarity with the Belarusian people and their aspirations to exercise their democratic right
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 September, 2020 | Topics: Events, Fact Sheets, Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News
U.S. Response to Allegations of State-Level Impingement of an Assumed Right to Abortion The following is the text of the United States response to a group of UN special procedures mandate holders alleging U.S. impingement to an assumed “right to abortion.” The letter was sent on August 11, 2020 to the Working Group on Discrimination Against Women …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 25 August, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
On July 16, 2020, the Commission released the draft report to the general public.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 17 July, 2020 | Topics: Events, Fact Sheets, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
Statement by Ambassador Andrew Bremberg U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva On the Release of the First Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights At this moment, hundreds of millions of men, women, and children around the world continue to suffer under harsh authoritarian regimes, where their …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 17 July, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases
The United States is transparent regarding the international law basis for the strike.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 July, 2020 | Topics: Events, Featured Event, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
The United States welcomes the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria’s July 7 report.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 July, 2020 | Topics: Events, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
High Commissioner Bachelet’s July 2 report vividly documents the continuing deterioration of human rights in Venezuela under the corrupt leadership of Nicolas Maduro.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 July, 2020 | Topics: Events, Fact Sheets, Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases
My colleagues and I join Americans and people around the world in horror, anger, and grief at the senseless death of George Floyd.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 June, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases
We note with great regret the most recent statement from the United Nations working group on the protection of women and girls that draws attention to alleged undue restrictions on access to supposedly “essential” abortion services for women in the U.S. during the time of COVID-19.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 28 May, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Global Health, Human Rights, News
Secretary Pompeo: “Today, the United States is imposing financial sanctions and visa restrictions on Iranian individuals and entities under human rights-related authorities.”
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 20 May, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
We applaud the courage and determination of the independent media. Their work is challenging but benefits us all.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 May, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 March, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs, News, Press Releases
The United States reiterates our outrage that Maduro’s representatives sit on an international body charged with upholding human rights, while in Venezuela the former regime continues a campaign of systemic repression and targeted violence to maintain its tenuous grip on power.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 25 February, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News | Tags: Human Rights
Secretary Pompeo: “I am outraged that High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet published a database of companies operating in Israeli-controlled territories.”
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 February, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
Secretary Pompeo: “Everyone has a role in the fight to advance religious freedom.”
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 6 February, 2020 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
Ambassador Bremberg: “President Trump restated the United States’ full support for the democratic actors of Venezuela, embodied by the bold and courageous leadership of interim President Juan Guaidó.”
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 February, 2020 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
We are saddened by the recent suicides in the Bidoon community. We welcome Kuwait’s initial steps to hold accountable security officials who committed abuses, especially of detainees, and urge the government to address impunity in government corruption cases.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 31 January, 2020 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Near East & North Africa | Tags: Human Rights
We commend Sweden on its long track record of protecting and promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 27 January, 2020 | Topics: Europe & Eurasia, Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We commend Spain for its continued commitment to protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 January, 2020 | Topics: Europe & Eurasia, Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
President Trump has proclaimed January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 January, 2020 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
Secretary Pompeo: “The protection of religious freedom is a top Trump Administration foreign policy priority. Persecution and discrimination on the basis of religion or belief exists in every region of the world. “
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 20 December, 2019 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
Secretary Pompeo: “Over 40 years in power, the regime in Iran has shown only disrespect for the Iranian people. This disrespect has destabilized Iran’s internal order, weakened its economy, and made it a pariah state in the eyes of the free world.”
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 20 December, 2019 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News, Speeches, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
Today in Geneva, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet provided an oral update on the human rights situation in Venezuela.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 December, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
“Let us stand firmly with those around the world who are fighting to defend their human rights.”
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 December, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Video | Tags: Human Rights
Secretary Pompeo: “The United States recognizes the inherent dignity that every woman and girl possesses and is committed to defending the safety and security of women and girls around the world and to cultivating their development as future leaders of our world.”
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 26 November, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
For decades, the Iranian regime has flagrantly violated its citizens’ human rights, targeting political and civil society activists as well as religious and ethnic minorities.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 November, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States welcomes the delegation of San Marino to the UPR Working Group.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 November, 2019 | Topics: Europe & Eurasia, Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States remains deeply troubled by multiple reports that the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has harassed, imprisoned, or arbitrarily detained family members of Uighur Muslim activists and survivors of Xinjiang internment camps who have made their stories public.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 November, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
We commend El Salvador for holding free and fair presidential elections in February this year and for announcing a new international mechanism to combat impunity and corruption, but remain concerned by alarmingly high rates of violence, corruption, and impunity and legislative efforts in the past year to undermine accountability and transitional justice.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 November, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
We welcome the recent law to more effectively prosecute domestic violence cases and encourage further steps be taken.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 November, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
Freedom of religion is a cherished American value and a fundamental freedom.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 28 October, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
The United States strongly supports multilateral organizations that sincerely and effectively work to protect human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 October, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
The United States once again will not participate in this week’s session of the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIGWG) on the articulation of a business and human rights treaty in Geneva, because it remains opposed to the treaty process and the manner in which it has been pursued.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 October, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States calls on the People’s Republic of China to immediately end its campaign of repression in Xinjiang, release all those arbitrarily detained, and cease efforts to coerce members of Chinese Muslim minority groups residing abroad to return to China to face an uncertain fate.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 October, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
I want to acknowledge first my esteemed diplomatic colleagues from Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom – all of whom are co-sponsoring today’s side event.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 25 September, 2019 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, Exclude, Featured Event, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
On this International Day of Democracy, we reflect on our nation’s unwavering commitment to the unalienable rights that create the foundation of our democracy.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 September, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
The United States remains committed to supporting the people of Venezuela and Iran. Those in power can allow for a future of freedom and prosperity for their people, or they can remain isolated with no legitimacy on the world stage.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 September, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Near East & North Africa, News, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
Two years ago, Burma’s security forces engaged in a brutal attack against hundreds of thousands of unarmed men, women, and children in a grossly disproportionate response to attacks by militants on security posts in northern Rakhine State.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 26 August, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs | Tags: Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs
Today we mark the first International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. This day serves as a reminder of the need to promote and protect the unalienable right of religious freedom, and the consequences when countries fail to do so.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 August, 2019 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News, U.S. Secretary of State
Huang has been honored multiple times by Reporters Without Borders for his courage in exposing corruption and human rights violations in China through his website, 64 Tianwang.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 August, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
Today, the Department of State is publicly designating the following individuals and their immediate family members for the named individuals’ responsibility for gross human rights violations, including in extrajudicial killings in northern Rakhine State, Burma, during the ethnic cleansing of Rohingya.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 17 July, 2019 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases | Tags: Human Rights
The United States remains deeply concerned by the gross human rights abuses and violations detailed in the UN Human Rights report.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 July, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
After an eight-year revolt against the Syrian Regime of Bashar Assad, a secret system of arbitrary arrests and abuse has been developed, sending hundreds of thousands into prisons. Nearly 128,000 Syrians have disappeared and are presumed to be either dead or still in custody.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 28 June, 2019 | Topics: Events, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We must continue to shed light on these abuses, support the former detainees and survivors of torture, and work to hold those responsible accountable.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 28 June, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Near East & North Africa, News, Speeches | Tags: Human Rights
Today is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, marking the 32nd anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 26 June, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We stand by the Nicaraguan people in their calls for a restoration of democracy through early, free, and fair elections. Rather than amnesty for human rights abusers, we demand a full accounting of crimes by Nicaraguan forces, including their role in the May 16 prison death of dual U.S.-Nicaraguan citizen and political prisoner Eddy Montes.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 June, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
Remarks David J. Ranz, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau Of South And Central Asian Affairs Washington, DC, June 6, 2019 U.S. Capitol Visitors Center As prepared Good morning, salam alaikum, and “Yahshimusiz”. My name is David Ranz and I am the acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia, within the Bureau of South …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 June, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We commend Qatar’s accession to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in May 2018 and the passage of the Law on the Regulation of Political Asylum and look forward to their full implementation.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We remain deeply concerned about the government’s continued human rights violations and abuses, and violent response to peaceful protests that began in April 2018.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
We remain deeply concerned by numerous reports of renditions, arbitrary detention, and violence by security forces, including alleged extrajudicial killings and the use of torture.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We applaud the many positive changes in Ethiopia’s human rights climate over the past year, including the decriminalization of opposition political movements and leaders, the allowance of peaceful rallies and demonstrations, and steps taken to revise repressive laws. h
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States commends Costa Rica’s continued commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights both domestically and internationally, especially significant advances in reducing child labor.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
We are encouraged by the Sultan’s May 5 decision to immediately extend Brunei’s de facto moratorium on the death penalty to include stoning under the Sharia Penal Code, and to ratify the Convention Against Torture.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States urges North Korea to adhere to its international human rights obligations and commitments.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 May, 2019 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, East Asia & Pacific, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights, Mission Geneva
We commend the Government of Dominica for providing for adequate prison conditions, protecting the independence of the press, and ensuring the independence and impartiality of the judiciary.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
We welcome Bhutan’s achievements in democratization, including its third national election in 2018. We are concerned that enforcement of current legislation, if implemented, could pose undue restrictions on the freedoms of expression, association, and religion or belief.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We complement Portugal for its positive overall human rights record, and especially for its cooperation with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and other humanitarian organizations in providing protection and assistance to refugees, asylum seekers, stateless persons, or other persons of concern.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 May, 2019 | Topics: Europe & Eurasia, Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States commends the Government of Cote d’Ivoire for its efforts to enact penal reform and combat trafficking in persons and the worst forms of child labor.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 May, 2019 | Topics: Africa, Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States is encouraged by President Tshisekedi’s commitment to host a Human Rights Dialogue with the United States.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 May, 2019 | Topics: Africa, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States welcomes Albania’s implementation of reforms to protect victims of trafficking in persons.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We compliment Norway on its outstanding human rights record and its robust engagement in human rights promotion abroad.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States strongly condemns the Iranian regime’s growing crackdown on women advocating for their human rights. Yasmin Aryani, Monireh Arabshahi, and Mojgan Keshavarz have been arrested in recent days for the crime of peacefully protesting compulsory hijab.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 1 May, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Near East & North Africa, News, Press Releases | Tags: Human Rights
The United States, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Georgia are hosting this event today because we are deeply concerned and committed to raising awareness of Nicaragua’s rapidly deteriorating human rights crisis.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 April, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Western Hemisphere
On April 4, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Georgia held an event in Geneva, Switzerland, to expose the ongoing violations and abuses of human rights in Nicaragua that began in April 2018 with the Ortega-Murillo regime’s violent crackdown on peaceful protesters.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 April, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
At the forty-seventh round of the Geneva International Discussions (GID) on the conflict in Georgia, April 2-3, the United States welcomed the resumption of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) meetings in Ergneti and efforts by the GID Co-Chairs and participants to re-convene the IPRM meetings in Gali as soon as possible.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 April, 2019 | Topics: Europe & Eurasia, Featured Event, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs, International Security, News | Tags: Humanitarian Affairs
Remarks by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Carrie Filipetti at an event on Human Rights Violations and Abuses in Venezuela Geneva, March 19, 2019 We want to welcome our distinguished guests and the courageous panelists to this event on Venezuela’s human rights crisis. The United States is joined by Albania, Argentina, …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 March, 2019 | Topics: Events, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
On March 19, the United States co-sponsored an event with Albania, Argentina, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Georgia, Hungary, Israel, Romania, and the United Kingdom at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland to highlight the dire human rights situation in Venezuela.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 March, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
China’s mass internment of members of Muslim minority groups, Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and others is raising alarm within the international community.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 March, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Speeches | Tags: Human Rights
On March 13, the United States co-hosted an event with Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland to raise awareness regarding ongoing and egregious human rights abuses in Xinjiang, where more than one million Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and other members of Muslim minority groups have been …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 March, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases | Tags: Human Rights
This week marks the eight-year anniversary of the detention of 2009 Iranian presidential election candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, as well as Mousavi’s wife and women’s rights advocate Zahra Rahnavard.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 February, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Press Releases | Tags: Human Rights
The United States is encouraged by the Dominican Republic’s agreement to create a working group with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and civil society participation to address racial discrimination.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 31 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We remain gravely concerned about the serious decline in the respect for civil and political rights in Cambodia.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 31 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States recognizes the challenges the Republic of Cyprus faces related to migration and the political division of the island. Observers have noted recent improvements in migrants’ access to the asylum system.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 29 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States welcomes Slovakia’s reforms to the process for selecting judges for general courts and the adoption of a judicial code of conduct. These improvements are positive steps towards restoring the public faith in equal justice and the rule of law.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 28 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States applauds Eritrea’s efforts to pursue peace with its neighbors and its engagement with the international community. We highlight the importance of protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms as essential elements of peace, security, and development and restate our interest in working together to advance these common goals.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 28 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States is concerned by President Azali’s attempt to proceed with elections in early 2019, despite Parliament’s assertions that he does not have the authority to modify the electoral code or establish candidate eligibility requirements.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 25 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
U.S. Statement at the Universal Periodic Review of Vanuatu 32ndSession Geneva, January 24, 2019 as delivered by Anna Palladino The United States welcomes the Vanuatu delegation to the UPR Working Group. We recommend that Vanuatu: Address the lack of accountability for police abuse and corruption by the Vanuatu Mobile Force and the Vanuatu Police Force …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 24 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States is encouraged by Macedonia’s progress in increasing transparency and accountability in judicial independence; however, we note that sustained efforts by the Government are required to implement reforms to combat and prosecute high-level corruption in order to restore public trust in state institutions and in the fairness and integrity of the judiciary.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 24 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We commend the Government of Yemen’s ongoing support of UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths as he brings parties together to forge a political agreement to end the suffering of the Yemeni people.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States commends Uruguay’s exemplary leadership of the Inter-American human rights system.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We remain deeply concerned that the harsh crackdown on individuals peacefully expressing dissent against the government has intensified in 2018.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We commend Chile’s progress with SENAME, including of the implementation of early warning systems, stricter requirements for foster families, and committing to close and replace centers where deaths and abuses were reported.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States commends New Zealand’s continued leadership and commitment to promoting human rights internationally. We highlight our shared history of democracy and rule of law and will continue to partner with New Zealand to advance these priorities in the region and around the world.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We applaud Afghanistan’s efforts to improve human rights. The 2018 penal code reflects international human rights law and best practices in criminal justice.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 January, 2019 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
Today the United States welcomes the expert, fact-finding report on human rights violations and abuses in the Russian Federation’s Republic of Chechnya and impunity for them, which we believe to be a particularly serious threat to Russia’s fulfillment of its Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) human dimension commitments.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 December, 2018 | Topics: Europe & Eurasia, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
The Nicaraguan regime’s recent actions to strip legal status from non-governmental organizations, including groups monitoring human rights, reveal President Ortega’s and Vice President Murillo’s continued contempt for human rights in their own country.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 December, 2018 | Topics: Exclude, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News, Press Releases, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
Human rights abuses in North Korea remain among the worst in the world and include extrajudicial killings, forced labor, torture, prolonged arbitrary detention, rape, forced abortions, and other sexual violence.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 11 December, 2018 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, Featured Event, Human Rights, News
Today, on International Human Rights Day, we mark with deep sorrow the passing in Russia of one of the world’s great defenders of human rights, Ludmilla Mikhailovna Alexeeva.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 11 December, 2018 | Topics: Europe & Eurasia, Featured Event, Human Rights, Press Releases | Tags: Human Rights
Beginning on October 2, 2018, the United States effectively engaged the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee to address serious human rights violations, abuses, and crises around the world.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 December, 2018 | Topics: Fact Sheets, Human Rights, International Security, News, USUN
The U.S. government is committed to supporting and advancing the voluntary efforts of businesses to advance human rights in their agenda, and has continued to take steps towards this objective in 2018. This document is meant to provide a snapshot of a few examples of the work undertaken in this regard.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 20 November, 2018 | Topics: Fact Sheets, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States encourages Malta to more aggressively address terrorist financing, money laundering, and corruption in banking supervision.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 November, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We welcome Republic of the Congo’s progress towards peace, but remain deeply concerned by reports of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of individuals who are detained by security forces, arbitrary arrests and holding of prisoners of conscience, and undue restrictions on freedoms of association and peaceful assembly. We are also concerned about inadequate anti-trafficking legislation …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 November, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We remain seriously concerned by the human trafficking situation in Belize; particularly official complicity in human trafficking-related offenses.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 November, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States remains concerned by reports of human rights violations and abuses by government agents, including those involving the use of torture, arbitrary arrests, and incommunicado detentions, and restrictions on the freedoms of expression and peaceful assembly.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 November, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
The United States acknowledges that Monaco’s size affects its capacity to accept refugees and commends Monaco’s support for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. However, Monaco’s law does not provide for formal asylum or refugee status.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 November, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We welcome the progress the Government of the Central African Republic has made to strengthen justice, accountability, and the rule of law. The United States commends the government’s recent success in holding criminal court sessions, the conviction of General Adjilo, and the National Assembly’s adoption of regulations for the Special Criminal Court.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2018 | Topics: Africa, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
We commend Malaysia for its peaceful democratic transition following this year’s general election.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 November, 2018 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights
We remain concerned by a variety of laws that restrict fundamental freedoms and have led to arrests and detentions of journalists, civil society activists, and social media users.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 November, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Near East & North Africa, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States is encouraged by the progress made by Mauritius in addressing abuses committed by security forces and implementing recommendations from the last UPR.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 November, 2018 | Topics: Africa, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
We appreciate the priority Mexico assigns to the promotion of democracy abroad but encourages stronger efforts to end gross human rights violations and abuses at home.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 November, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
The United States is encouraged by Nigeria’s progress in addressing the Civilian Joint Task Force’s recruitment and use of child soldiers, but stress the importance of ensuring the reintegration of former child soldiers and that there are no children within the Nigerian military.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 November, 2018 | Topics: Africa, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
We are alarmed by the Government of China’s worsening crackdown on Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslims in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 6 November, 2018 | Topics: East Asia & Pacific, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
The United States welcomes Senegal’s efforts to promote and defend human rights, especially in advancements it has made concerning the rights of women and children.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 November, 2018 | Topics: Africa, Featured Event, Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
We commend the Kingdom’s initiatives to broaden societal and economic participation for Saudi Arabian women. We remain, however, concerned about guardianship laws and credible reports of the forcible return of women to Saudi Arabia after these women have entered the sovereign jurisdiction of other countries.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 November, 2018 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases | Tags: Human Rights, Mission Geneva
The United States is not participating in this week’s session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the articulation of a business and human rights treaty (IGWG) in Geneva because it remains opposed to the treaty process and the manner in which it has been pursued.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 October, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, News | Tags: Human Rights
Deputy Secretary Sullivan: “I’m pleased to announcethat we are working with our Congress to make a second $25 million available to the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery as well as to the University of Georgia Research Foundation to work toward our mutual aim of ending modern slavery through transformative programs, innovative research methodologies, and …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 26 September, 2018 | Topics: Exclude, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, News, Press Releases, Speeches
For the month of September, the United States is serving as President of the Security Council, a position that rotates every month among the 15 Council members.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 September, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, International Security, News
Statement by Ambassador Haley on the Nomination of Michelle Bachelet to be UN High Commissioner for Human Rights August 8, 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Press Release – U.S. Mission to the United Nations, New York) The United States withdrew from the UN Human Rights Council in part because of the Council’s consistent failure to address …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 August, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, USUN | Tags: Human Rights
Media Note Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC June 26, 2018 Vice President Mike Pence announced today in Brazil nearly $10 million in additional humanitarian U.S. assistance for Venezuelans who have fled their country due to the man-made crisis there. This funding for the Venezuelan people includes a contribution to the International Organization for Migration …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 26 June, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs, News, Vice President of the United States, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs
Remarks by Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State and Nikki Haley, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Treaty Room Washington, DC June 19, 2018 SECRETARY POMPEO: Good afternoon. The Trump administration is committed to protecting and promoting the God-given dignity and freedom of every human being. Every individual has rights that are inherent and inviolable. They are …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 June, 2018 | Topics: Exclude, Featured Event, Former U.S. Government Leaders, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, Speeches, The U.S. and the U.N., U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
High Commissioner, the United States thanks you for your service and advocacy in addressing human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world over the past four years.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 June, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News
The United States welcomes the report of Victor Madrigal, the Independent Expert on Combatting Violence and Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 June, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News
The United States joins people around the world in celebrating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) Pride Month, and reaffirms its commitment to protecting and defending the human rights of all, including LGBTI persons.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 1 June, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, News, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State | Tags: Human Rights
Press Statement by Heather Nauert, Department Spokesperson Washington, DC May 21, 2018 The United States notes that the May 17, referendum process in Burundi was marred by a lack of transparency, the suspension of media outlets, and attempts to pressure voters. The government allowed vigorous campaigning by the opposition during the designated two-week campaign period, but …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 May, 2018 | Topics: Africa, Exclude, Featured Event, Human Rights | Tags: Human Rights, Humanitarian Affairs
The United States condemns the fraudulent election that took place in Venezuela on May 20. This so-called “election” is an attack on constitutional order and an affront to Venezuela’s tradition of democracy. Until the Maduro regime restores a democratic path in Venezuela through free, fair, and transparent elections, the government faces isolation from the international …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 May, 2018 | Topics: Featured Event, Human Rights, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State, Western Hemisphere | Tags: Human Rights
The United States strongly and unequivocally opposes the proposal before us today, and we call for a vote on the resolution.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 May, 2018 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, Near East & North Africa
The United States remains concerned over the recent outbreak of violence along the Gaza fence.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 May, 2018 | Topics: Chargé D’Affaires, Featured Event, Human Rights, Human Rights Council, Near East & North Africa, News, Speeches, The U.S. and the U.N.
The United States stands for the protection of fundamental freedoms and universal human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 17 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, News, Press Releases, U.S. Secretary of State
The April presidential transition again robbed the Cuban people of any real choice in shaping their country’s future; the same actors are in charge, many just with different titles, selected in a process that was neither free nor fair.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council, News, Western Hemisphere
The United States welcomes the Cameroonian delegation and appreciates its active participation in this important process.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We are troubled by deterioration of human rights and fundamental freedoms since the last UPR in 2013.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We are deeply troubled by restrictions on the rights of members of the political opposition, independent media, civil society, and religious and other minority groups in Russia.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
As delivered by Huda Ibrahim 30th Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group Geneva, May 14, 2018 The international community appreciates the Government of Bangladesh for hosting Rohingya refugees and welcomes its commitment to a voluntary, safe, and dignified repatriation process that includes the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and relevant international agencies. However, …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States is deeply concerned by the harassment and detention of Baha’is by the Houthis in Sana’a, Yemen.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Press Releases
We commend Canada’s long-standing commitment to human rights and implementation of prior recommendations.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 11 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We congratulate Djibouti for conducting peaceful legislative elections and for committing to take measures to increase the political representation of women.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We commend Colombia’s efforts to implement the 2016 peace accord that ended a half century of armed conflict with the FARC and reduced violence substantially.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 10 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States commends Germany for its commitment to human rights and its excellent record investigating and holding accountable those responsible for violations and abuses.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We commend the Government for steps taken to expand space for civil society, such as new respect for religious freedoms, relaxed media restrictions, new public feedback mechanisms, and cooperation with activists.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We applaud the government’s efforts to implement recommendations from the previous UPR cycle.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We commend Cabo Verde for its commitment to democracy and for working to promote the human rights of all.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We appreciate efforts to work toward protections for conscientious objectors and improve conditions in the prison system.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We commend Burkina Faso for working to re-establish democratic governance in recent years.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 May, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
“To deny any person their human rights is to challenge their very humanity” Nelson Mandela.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 30 April, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, News
The United States is deeply concerned about the challenges faced by persons living and working in rural areas around the world, and we participate in existing discussions in multilateral fora to address these complex issues.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 April, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, News
The United States wishes to clarify its position on a few issues present in several of the Item 3 resolutions, including but not limited to the Right to Work and Good Governance.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The importance of respect for human rights is front and center in the UN drug conventions, a foundation of international drug control policy, as well as in the declarations and resolutions from the General Assembly and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND).
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States strongly supports the renewal of the mandate of the Independent Expert on Mali. We wish to clarify our understanding of the language in a few parts of the text of the resolution adopted on Technical Cooperation on Mali.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States strongly supports the resolution “Cooperation with Georgia” before us today and we call on all members of this Council to vote in favor of the resolution if a vote is called.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States is pleased to co-sponsor the resolutions on the human rights situations in the DPRK, Iran, and Myanmar.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States strongly and unequivocally opposes the existence of the Human Rights Council’s biased Agenda Item Seven
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The human rights situation in South Sudan as reported is deeply alarming to us all.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States joins consensus on this resolution to underscore the priority we place on our domestic and international efforts to protect and promote the well-being of children.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States would like to express our appreciation to Armenia for its efforts to reach consensus on this resolution, and support the text as drafted.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We welcome the resolution’s strong condemnation of the continued systematic, widespread and gross violations and abuses of human rights and all violations of international humanitarian law carried out by the Syrian government and its allies.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States makes the following statement to supplement its explanation of position on Agenda Item 3 matters in order to clarify its position on certain issues pertinent to this resolution.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States recognizes that the 2030 Agenda can help countries work toward global peace and prosperity, and that each country has its own development priorities and must work towards implementation in accordance with its own national policies and priorities.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States is committed to defending human rights frameworks at the United Nations; we will not participate in attempts to weaken states’ obligations and commitments to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms or to subordinate them to other aims, such as those related to development or trade.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We would like to thank Denmark, Chile and the core-group for their cooperative spirit, which enabled us to join consensus on this resolution.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States once again categorically rejects the premise that underlies the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States is pleased to co-sponsor this resolution and we thank the core group for their collaborative approach in developing this text
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
This Council is meeting at a time when the international community is confronting what could be the modern era’s most serious food security emergency.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
At the 37th Human Rights Council session in Geneva, February 26-March 23, the U.S. addressed urgent human rights situations around the world.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 March, 2018 | Topics: Fact Sheets, Human Rights, Human Rights Council | Tags: Human Rights
We are pleased to cosponsor this resolution and are grateful to the core group for their collaborative approach throughout the development of this text.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States is pleased to join consensus on this resolution concerning the realization of economic, social, and cultural rights, and welcome its emphasis on the links between sustainability and resilience and the enjoyment of human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States continues to support the promotion of cultural diversity, pluralism, tolerance, cooperation, and dialogue among people from all cultures.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States concurs with other members of the Council that protection of the environment is vitally important and contributes to sustainable development, human well-being, and the enjoyment of human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We would like to thank Azerbaijan and the core-group for their cooperative spirit, which enabled us to join consensus on this resolution.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We believe States must take effective measures to protect the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all persons, such as those with albinism, including effective prosecution of perpetrators of violence.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
In the spirit of our shared policy objective, to make adequate housing available to all of our people, we are pleased to join consensus on this resolution today.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States is fully committed to the goals of promoting and strengthening the integrity of the judicial system in every nation.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States encourages governments facing serious human rights challenges to cooperate fully with OHCHR to help them address those challenges. Many countries have benefited from such cooperation.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
Mr. High Commissioner, we welcome cooperation with you and your office, and we appreciate your efforts.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
New Zealand makes this statement on behalf of a group of 45 countries; the full version of the statement and the list of supporting delegations will be published on the extranet.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We remain deeply concerned by reports of widespread abuses by armed groups, such as unlawful killings; involuntary disappearances; torture; pervasive sexual violence, including against men and boys; unlawful restrictions on freedom of movement; and the continued use of child soldiers by armed groups.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States condemns the widespread abuses committed by Russian occupation authorities in Crimea and Russia-led forces in eastern Ukraine.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We encourage all Libyan parties to support the UN-facilitated political process and work together in the spirit of compromise toward the common goal of a peaceful, united, and inclusive Libya.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We are gravely concerned by the deterioration of the human rights situation in Mali and by reports of the ongoing of serious human rights violations and abuses.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The Vienna Declaration and Program of Action calls for democracy, justice, equality, and the rule of law as key principles for the protection and full enjoyment of human rights, particularly during elections.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The Government of the DRC has the primary responsibility to protect those within its territory, to respect and ensure the human rights of all persons in its territory, and ensure that those responsible for abuses and violations of human rights are held accountable.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We welcome the Government’s decision to accept our recommendations on full implementation of HRC resolution 30/1 and on accountability for the government’s, including the security forces, human rights violations and abuses, as well as accountability for those responsible for harassment and violence against members of religious minority communities.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States firmly stands against all forms of discrimination and appreciates the summary report by the Office of the High Commissioner on the panel discussion of the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination on the enjoyment of human rights by women and girls.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States notes with concern the grave conditions facing the press in Iran as detailed in the UN Special Rapporteur’s report.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States firmly stands against all forms of discrimination and appreciates the summary report by the Office of the High Commissioner on the panel discussion of the impact of multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination on the enjoyment of human rights by women and girls.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council (HRC) has done much to advance the cause of human rights, calling out human rights violations and abuses, encouraging positive action, and changing lives. At its best, the Human Rights Council fulfils its promise as the world’s premier body charged with the protection and promotion of human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We welcome your attention to stateless women belonging to minority groups and the unique challenges they face. This is closely related to efforts undertaken by the United States at this Council to highlight the issue of stateless women and children.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
Our governments remain concerned over Iran’s poor human rights record, including most recently the widespread reports that the Iranian authorities unlawfully killed, detained, and abused numerous individuals following nation-wide protests that began on December 28, 2017.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States remains deeply concerned about the human rights situations in Iran, Syria, Myanmar, the DPRK, Cambodia, and South Sudan, which we address elsewhere in this session.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States thanks the Commission of Inquiry for its work. In Burundi, where the situation remains grave, the Government and actors affiliated with it continue to commit serious human rights violations and abuses, some of which the Commission found provide reasonable grounds to believe may amount to crimes against humanity.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We are appalled by the level of brutality and the scale of the atrocities documented by the Commission, including reports of ethnically-based killings of civilians; mass forced displacement; arbitrary detentions, denial of food, torture; recruitment and use of child soldiers; and widespread sexual and gender-based violence.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The depths of depravity to which the Syrian government and its backers will sink is unfathomable.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We applaud the courageous Syrian human rights defenders who, despite grave risks, continue to document atrocities and advocate for peace and justice.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 13 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We value your assessment of the human rights situation in Eritrea and your mandate to inform this Council, and we reiterate our desire for the Eritrean government to cooperate with you and with the international community by allowing access to evaluate the situation inside the country first-hand.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 12 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States is deeply concerned by Myanmar’s cessation of cooperation with the Special Rapporteur and continued non-cooperation with the Fact-Finding Mission. The government should immediately resume cooperation with the Special Rapporteur and allow the Fact-Finding Mission access to Myanmar.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 12 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We condemn the Iranian government’s crackdown on protests beginning on December 28. Iranian authorities forcefully repressed peaceful protestors, arrested thousands, with reports of the deaths of over 20 protestors, while the government curbed access to information inside the country.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 12 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We remain deeply concerned about the well-being of the North Korean people, who face egregious human rights violations and abuses, including those involving extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, sexual and gender-based violence, and forced labor.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 12 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
As the Council commemorates the anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action, we are concerned by efforts to inappropriately collectivize human rights, which are rights guaranteed to individuals, as well as by efforts to make development a precondition for the fulfillment of human rights obligations and …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
Today, we want to reiterate U.S. concerns over reprisals targeting the special procedures of this Council, the staff of the Office of the High Commissioner, and civil society actors who cooperate with the Human Rights Council and its mandates, and with the UN more generally.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
Under U.S. federal law people with disabilities are protected from discrimination in State and local government services, programs, and activities, including law enforcement agencies, justice system entities, and juvenile and adult corrections agencies.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 8 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States has a legacy of legal protections for individual privacy dating back to our founding.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
We appreciate their efforts to highlight the urgency of addressing violence against children and children and armed conflict, and to advocate for rights and protections of children.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States would like to thank the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities for her report. We also want to thank the Independent Expert for her work on Albinism.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 7 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
I want to thank Canada and Article 19 for initiating this side-event on protecting freedom of expression and religion for all. The United States was pleased to be a cosponsor. I want to thank the panelists for their insights. I am always impressed by the courage and expertise of advocates like you working on the …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 6 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States supports efforts to prioritize the needs of children in humanitarian situations. Children are the agents of change, and each day we are reminded that every young person is a key driver of prosperity and freedom.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We remind the Council of the repeated violations and abuses against civilians by the Syrian authorities and their supporters in previous post-ceasefire agreements, documented by numerous UN reports, including those of the Commission of Inquiry.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
All of the Russian amendments before us today are an attempt to divert the Council’s attention from the issue at hand: the continued violations of the ceasefire by the regime and its Russian supporters.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
On March 2, the UN Human Rights Council interrupted its regular session to hold an urgent debate on the deteriorating human rights situation in Eastern Ghouta, Syria.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
Explanation of Position By the Delegation of the United States of America Urgent Debate on Syria Human Rights Council 37th Session Geneva, March 2, 2018 Delivered by Chargé d’Affaires ad interim Theodore Allegra Note: The Human Rights Council will continue its consideration of the resolution on Eastern Ghouta on Monday, March 5. The United States strongly …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States is committed to continuing to support governments and civil society in addressing drivers of violent extremism, such as political and social marginalization of particular communities.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
Interactive Dialogue on the Joint Study of the Special Adviser of the SG on the Prevention of Genocide and the SR on Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence 37th Session of the Human Rights Council Statement by the Delegation of the United States of America Delivered by David G. Mandel-Anthony, March 2, 2018 Thank …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
Once again, the United States joins with the majority of our colleagues to demand an end to the Assad regime’s brutal assault against its own people.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States strongly promotes and protects this right, as set out in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 2 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States is committed to continuing to support governments and civil society in addressing drivers of violent extremism, such as political and social marginalization of particular communities.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 1 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States remains deeply concerned by the continued acts of intimidation and reprisals against human rights defenders around the world on the basis of their cooperation with the United Nations and its human rights mechanisms.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 1 March, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
On this 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and 25th anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action (VDPA), the United States celebrates the importance of these declarations, reaffirms our commitment to the principles enshrined in them, and reflects on the challenges to the universal realization of human rights and …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 28 February, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
U.S. National Intervention – High Level Segment Human Rights Council – Geneva, Switzerland As delivered by Mary Catherine (Molly) Phee Acting Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of International Organization Affairs February 28, 2018 Thank you, Madame Vice President, Excellencies, distinguished colleagues. Over the past year, the United States has actively pursued Council action on two …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 28 February, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States is appalled to learn that the government of Iran is sending its Justice Minister, Seyyed Alireza Avaei, to address the UN Human Rights Council.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 27 February, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
Civil society’s participation within the UPR process remains essential to the implementation of recommendations.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 26 February, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
We join Pakistan and others around the world in mourning the untimely death of Pakistani human rights and democracy advocate, Asma Jahangir.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 February, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States is extremely concerned about escalating violence in Idlib, the Damascus suburbs of Eastern Ghouta, and other areas of Syria threatened by ongoing regime and Russian airstrikes.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 February, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Near East & North Africa, Press Releases
The United States denounces the decision by Venezuela’s National Electoral Council to unilaterally advance presidential elections without guarantees to ensure free, fair, and internationally-validated elections.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 9 February, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Press Releases
We encourage Poland to reevaluate the legislation in light of its potential impact on the principle of free speech and on our ability to be effective partners.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 1 February, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We note Israel’s continued commitment to its democratic traditions and values, its free elections, and its open society.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 26 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States thanks Serbia for its efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the numerous refugees and asylum seekers who transited or remain in the country.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 24 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
We commend the UAE for efforts to protect migrant workers, including approving new domestic worker protections.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 23 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
We welcome Montenegro’s establishment of a commission to monitor investigations into attacks and threats against journalists, but we are concerned that it has failed to advance these investigations.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States is pleased to note Barbados’ strong respect for human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 19 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States commends Luxembourg’s robust commitment to human rights and fundamental freedoms, democratic values, and the rule of law.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States is extremely concerned by the serious human rights violations and abuses that continue to occur in Burundi, including extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, and sexual violence.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
We commend Botswana for its leadership on the promotion and protection of human rights and its commitment to democracy both domestically and internationally.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States is disappointed that many of the issues noted in the previous review remain unaddressed, such as the restrictions on the human rights of women and of members of marginalized communities.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 17 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
We commend Mali for working to reestablish democratic governance since 2012.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States commends Romania’s commitment to democratic values and to the promotion of human rights.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States commends the Government of Tonga on the recent successful national elections, which were a significant step in Tonga’s democratic transition.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States commends France’s strong commitment to human rights and fundamental freedoms, democratic values, and the rule of law.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the deaths to date and the arrests of at least one thousand Iranians.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
Today, the Department of State announces that the Secretary of State re-designated Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan as Countries of Particular Concern on December 22, 2017. The Secretary also placed Pakistan on a Special Watch List for severe violations of religious freedom.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 4 January, 2018 | Topics: Human Rights
Once again, the United States condemns the widespread abuses by Russian occupation authorities in Crimea and Russia’s forces in eastern Ukraine. We thank the Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine for its continued work and reporting, and we also thank the government of Ukraine for its continued close cooperation with this mechanism.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 18 December, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The Venezuelan people deserve the right to express their views and consent to governance through a free and fair democratic process that is open to all candidates. A presidential election cannot be legitimate if candidates and parties cannot freely participate.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 12 December, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Press Releases
We are pleased to have cosponsored and voted for this important resolution, and we thank Bangladesh for their leadership in bringing this resolution forward.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 6 December, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States again calls on Myanmar authorities to respect the rights of its entire population, provide unhindered UN, humanitarian and media access throughout Burma, especially in Rakhine State, ensure justice for victims and accountability for those responsible for human rights violations and abuses, and take all necessary measures so that all persons can safely …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 5 December, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights
Today’s mega sporting events require extensive planning and sophisticated logistics; they are huge construction projects which pose daunting financial and transportation challenges.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 1 December, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights
After a careful and thorough analysis of available facts, it is clear that the situation in northern Rakhine state constitutes ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 22 November, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights
On Transgender Day of Remembrance, the United States honors the memory of the many transgender individuals who have lost their lives to acts of violence.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 21 November, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights
The United States is eager to see Sudan make progress in a range of areas in the months and years ahead, as we work towards a new framework for bilateral engagement.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 20 November, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights
We honor the memory of Sergey Magnitskiy, who died on November 16, 2009, while in custody in a Moscow prison.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 16 November, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Press Releases
We are working to immediately address the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Rakhine State, strengthen Burma’s transition to democracy, expand economic opportunity, improve health and resilience of vulnerable populations, further national reconciliation, empower local communities and civil society, and strengthen respect for and protection of human rights and religious freedom.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 November, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights
“I am announcing today that the United States will provide an additional $47 million in humanitarian assistance for refugees, bringing the United States response to the Rakhine State crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh to more than $87 million since August of this year, and total humanitarian assistance for displaced people in and from this region …
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 November, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights
We commend Sri Lanka’s commitment to promoting reconciliation, accountability, and human rights, and welcome progress on returning occupied lands and operationalizing the Office of Missing Persons.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 November, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We commend Ukraine’s reform efforts since 2014, undertaken as the country has suffered greatly from acts of Russian aggression.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 15 November, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
The United States commends Japan’s work to promote human rights, both domestically and internationally.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 November, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We commend the Government of Zambia for reforming the country’s constitution and adopting meaningful changes to electoral clauses and human rights protections, and we encourage its continued implementation.
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By U.S. Mission Geneva | 14 November, 2017 | Topics: Human Rights, Human Rights Council
We recognize Benin’s efforts to protect children from human trafficking.