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A demonstration against racism, hatred and islamophobia in Brussels, Belgium, 2019. ©EPA Photo

Victims mount as extreme nationalism fuels racism

From Montenegro to New Zealand, racist intimidation and violence cast a dark shadow over this year’s global commemoration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

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Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Andrew Gilmour (left) listens to Peter Pringle, the last man to be sentenced to death in Ireland, who now campaigns for global abolition of the death penalty and provides support to exonerated former prisoners.

Tortured lives after the death penalty

At the screening of the BBC documentary “Fallout” at the UN in New York, exonerated death row victims narrate their struggles to piece together their broken lives without government compensation or support.

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Still powerful: UDHR at 70

In an era of “backlash against human rights,” how can the 70-year-old Universal Declaration of Human Rights help to solve today’s and emerging global challenges?

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Death penalty in Japan
ASG Gilmour’s video message on the occasion of the establishment of the Citizen’s Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment, Japan, end-August 2019

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Positive signals on civic space require support from the international community

Update on Sudan
Statement to the Human Rights Council recommends dialogue, investigations

Situation in South Sudan
Welcome improved human rights situation in S.Sudan. But as ASG Gilmour reported to Security Council, still horrifying rapes, intercommunal violence, impunity, high corruption, surveillance and arbitrary arrests.

Situation in Sudan
ASG Gilmour breifs the Security Council, New York, 14 June 2019

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