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• During the period from 2017 to 2018, in more than 110 countries about 74,514 human trafficking victims were detected.  About 70 per cent of them were women and girls who are more often sold for sexual exploitation and less often for forced labour. 

From domestic violence to sexual abuse, online harassment and increased child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV) is “a global scourge” that is being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN chief said on Tuesday. 

• Belarus’ human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Monday, 2 November 2020 in a meeting that will be webcast live in English and Russian. 

•  Independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council today criticised Belarus for persecuting women human rights defenders in the context of the mass protests taking place in the country since August

• We remain deeply concerned at the situation in Belarus more than three months on from the disputed presidential election, as the Belarusian Government continues to wield the machinery of the State to commit human rights violations.