26/10/2018
The United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, on 26 October 2018 warned that the forcible mass expulsion of Congolese migrants from Angola has resulted in “serious human rights violations by security forces on both sides of the border” and left at least 330,000 returnees in an “extremely precarious situation”.
UNICEF/UN0162335/Tremeau | Children attend class in a temporary tent school in Mulombela village, Kasaï region, Democratic Republic of the Congo
This month, some 330,000 people have reportedly crossed from Angola into the Kasai, Kasai Central and Kwango provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), following an expulsion order by the Government of Angola targeting irregular migrants.
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26/10/2018
As some 7,000 mostly-Honduran migrants continue their journey northwards toward the United States, governments must prioritize the needs of migrant children when it comes to applying immigration laws and procedures, said the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 26 October 2018.
UNICEF México | Children are among the migrants from Central America who are walking north towards the United States. Here they are pictured on the streets of Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico. 21 October 2018.
Highlighting the vulnerability of children on the move, the agency advised all transit and destination countries, to consider alternatives to immigration detention.
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26/10/2018
24 October 2018 (UN Environment)* – As Miremba enters her classroom in the morning, little does she know that the walls of the one place that should help her secure a better future are, in fact, poisoning it. As she playfully chips the hallway paint before going into class, she exposes herself, and her fellow schoolmates, to the irreversible toxic effects of lead.
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Years after lead in paint and petrol was banned in many parts of world, this toxic, heavy metal continues to pose a threat to people’s health as well as the environment – particularly in developing countries, where the major source of lead exposure to children is from paint.
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26/10/2018
By Maria Rubi*
UNHCR is providing shelter, food and other assistance to Honduran refugees and migrants in Guatemala and southern Mexico. Español
A UNHCR staff member talks to Honduran refugees and migrants resting in a park in Tapachula in southern Mexico. © UNHCR/Julio López
TAPACHULA, Mexico, 24 October 2018 (UNHCR)* – When street gang members torched his family home in Honduras, 16-year-old Eduardo* felt he had no option but to run for his life. “When I saw our house burning I knew our number had been called, our luck had run out, it was time to flee,” he says.
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26/10/2018
A crackdown on free speech is the latest worrying development amid the deteriorating, “wholescale oppression” of human rights in Belarus, an independent expert told the UN General Assembly, on 25 October 2018.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus,
Miklós Haraszti, referred to the “sad fate of freedom of expression”, specifically pointing to legislation that ends anonymity for contributors to online media, and forcing all online platforms to register with the State.
Mr. Haraszti’s, whose six-year tenure is coming to an end, said that human rights abuses that had prompted international scrutiny when he took up his role, were worsening in important areas.
“Given the impossibility of complete content control over the internet, the new regulations are bound to be exercised in an arbitrary, selective, and politicised manner, with the aim of intimidating those who would express critical views and expose abuses” he said.
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