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The Global Detention Project has launched Covid-19 Global Immigration Detention Platform  to track how states respond to the Covid-19 pandemic. It aims to systematically and comprehensively survey all detaining countries across the globe to report on official action—or, as the case…

At its 128th session, the UN Human Rights Committee (HRC) recommended to supplement the laws of Uzbekistan with legal norms for protection against direct, indirect and multiple discrimination in both public and private spheres, on all grounds, including race, political…

Migrants who cannot be expelled during the pandemic must be released Many countries are starting to release people in custody at risk of contracting Covid-19. In Russia, attorneys and human rights defenders are calling for pretrial detention facilities and prisons…

GENEVA (23 March 2020) – Governments must ensure that their response to the COVID-19 pandemic does not contribute to xenophobia and racial discrimination, and must eradicate xenophobia  throughout all State policy and messaging, said E. Tendayi Achiume, UN Special Rapporteur on…

More and more people stop giving women flowers and wish them “female happiness” on International Women’s Day, but instead organize talks and discussions about what really worries women and the problems they have to fight against on a daily basis,…

During the sessions in February and March 2020, the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (UN CEDAW) addressed its recommendations to Moldova and asked the authorities of Ukraine and Azerbaijan about measures to ensure equality in…