Tag: violations
The United Nations Office for Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has released its monthly report for September, documenting 619 human rights violations and abuses — an exceptionally high figure. More than 85% of these abuses occurred in the eastern provinces of North Kivu, South Kivu, and Ituri, where ongoing conflict continues […]
70% of cases of violations of human rights in Ukraine are committed by the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) and the police. Impunity for violations of human rights undermines efforts to establish the rule of lawin the country and causes distrust of the authorities. According to Kate Gilmore, Deputy High Commissioner of the UN for Human […]
According to the report, US laws and practices violate internationally recognized human rights in incarceration, racial disparities, criminal justice, police killing of African Americans and foreign policy to name a few. “The United States locks up 2.37 million people, the largest reported incarcerated population in the world,” the report says, adding “about 12 million people […]
