SOGI UN source Archives: Working Group on Arbitrary Detention
Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, A/HRC/13/30/Add.3, 8 February 2011, Senegal
VI. REMARKS I. Detentions on grounds of sexual orientation 72. The Working Group received information according to which officers of the National Police had detained persons on allegations of committing “unnatural sexual acts”. This was the case of four men arrested in the town of Darou Mousty, in the Louga region, on 19 June 2009. […]
Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, A/HRC/16/47, 19 January 2011
III. IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MANDATE OF THE WORKING GROUP 7. The mandate of the Working Group is to investigate cases of deprivation of liberty imposed arbitrarily. In the discharge of its mandate, the Working Group refers to the relevant international standards set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as to the […]
Promotion and protection of all human rights; Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, A/HRC/13/30/Add.1, 2 March 2010
Opinion No. 42/2008 (EGYPT): Communication addressed to the Government on 30 May 2008 Concerning Messrs. A, B, C, and D (Full names were transmitted to the Government but are not published at source’s request). The State is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 1. (Same text as paragraph 1 of […]
Report of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, A/HRC/10/21/Add.3, 16 February 2009: Colombia
The Working Group notes the gap between the Constitution – an instrument recognized worldwide for its democratic nature, in both its genesis and content – the law, and reality. It criticizes the practice of administrative pretrial detention by the National Police; mass or multiple arrests by the military in rural areas; detentions in the poor […]
Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, A/HRC/4/40/Add.1, 2 February 2007, Opinion No. 22/2006: Cameroon
7. The source states that the above-mentioned 11 persons were arrested with six other persons (17 in all) in a bar known to be frequented by homosexuals. The arrests were widely covered in the press and by local television channels, which showed pictures of them. The source adds that some of the arrestees have been […]
Opinions adopted by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, No 7/2002 (Egypt), E/CN.4/2003/8/Add.1, January 24, 2003
5. According to the source of the communication, at least 55 persons were arrested in Cairo on the grounds of their sexual orientation in the early hours of 11 May 2001, during a raid by police of the discotheque on the Queen Boat moored on the Nile in Zamalek District. Ten undercover officers from both […]