🏳️‍🌈On #IDAHOBIT 2024 and every day of the year, #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 & the EU🇪🇺 stand firmly for tolerance and diversity and against violence, exclusion, and discrimination targeting LGBTIQ+ persons around the world.

#AlliesInAction #IDAHOBIT #RightsEqualsHealth

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#Luxembourg 's🇱🇺 #UPR46 recommendations to #Cambodia 🇰🇭:
1️⃣Implement Special Rapporteur's 10-point plan
2️⃣Protect freedom of expression & peaceful assembly
3️⃣Accelerate setting up of an NHRI
4️⃣Protect workers' rights and eliminate child labour
5️⃣Fight corruption, esp. on land issues

#Luxembourg 's🇱🇺 #UPR46 recommendations to the #DominicanRepublic 🇩🇴
1️⃣Intensify measures to protect women's rights & adopt a law on GBV
2️⃣Adopt measures to combat the economic exploitation of children
3️⃣Decriminalize abortion & include sex education in the public school curriculum

#Luxembourg 's #UPR46 recommendations to #VietNam 🇻🇳:
1⃣Create an #NHRI in line with the Paris Principles
2⃣Make antiterrorist legislation comply with int law
3⃣Create an enabling environment for #CivilSociety
4⃣Implement #BizHumanRights principles
5⃣Moratorium on the #DeathPenalty

#Luxembourg 's #UPR46 recommendations to #Eritrea 🇪🇷:
1⃣Cooperate w UN Special Procedures
2⃣Ratify Rome Statute
3⃣Abolish Death Penalty
4⃣Implement transitional justice
5⃣Investigate ICHREE reports
6⃣Limit military service
7⃣End discrimination against women
8⃣End reprisals vs civil society

#Luxembourg 's🇱🇺 #UPR46 recommendations to #Slovakia 🇸🇰:
1️⃣Ratify the Istanbul Convention
2️⃣Create a legal institution to protect same-sex unions
3️⃣Criminalise domestic violence and increase penalties for femicide
4️⃣Continue efforts to protect journalists and other media workers

On #WorldPressFreedomDay , we recognise the essential role played by journalists and media workers in protecting everybody’s #HumanRights , in particular the right to freedom of opinion and expression. #Democracy needs #PressFreedom . #WPFD2024

Les recommandations du #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 aux Comores🇰🇲 #UPR46 :
1️⃣Réformer le système judiciaire pour garantir la jouissance des #droitshumains à tous
2️⃣Libérer les prisonniers politiques
3️⃣Abolir la peine de mort
4️⃣Abroger les lois ciblant les personnes LGBTQ+

#Luxembourg 's 🇱🇺 #UPR46 recommendations for #NorthMacedonia 🇲🇰:
1️⃣Ratify the UN CED;
2️⃣Strengthen the capacities of the judiciary and police to combat gender-based violence;
3️⃣Strengthen the independence, capacities, and mandate of the Ombudsman, in line with the Paris Principles.

'There is no #SustainableDevelopment without sustainable financing for development!'

Marc Bichler addressing the 'Bridging Gaps, Building Futures: #Microinsurance and the Path to the SDGs' event launching the landmark 'Landscape of Microinsurance' report: microinsurancenetwork.org/press-release-…

#Luxembourg 's🇱🇺 #UPR46 recommendations to #Vanuatu 🇻🇺:
1️⃣Establish a Paris Principles-compliant national #HumanRights institution
2️⃣Introduce the principle of equality for all and prohibit all forms of discrimination
3️⃣Set the minimum age for marriage at 18
4️⃣Support local peasants

#Luxembourg 🇱🇺’s #UPR46 recommendations to #Yemen 🇾🇪:
1️⃣Implement UN Human Rights & GEE recommendations
2️⃣Ratify the Rome Statute
3️⃣Protect #HRDs & journalists
4️⃣Investigate violence against migrants
5️⃣Protect religious minorities, e.g. the Baha'i
6️⃣Criminalize gender-based violence

Luxembourg's 🇱🇺 #UPR46 recommendations to #Uruguay 🇺🇾:
1️⃣Intensify national efforts to end violence of all kinds against women and girls
2️⃣Improve prison conditions for detainees
3️⃣Continue investigating all human rights violations committed during the military dictatorship period

#Luxembourg 's🇱🇺 #UPR46 recommendations to #Cyprus 🇨🇾:
1️⃣ Ratify the CED;
2️⃣ Fight hate speech & discrimination of all kinds;
3️⃣ Increase the representation of women in decision-making positions at all levels;
4️⃣ Accede to the 1961 UN Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

#Luxembourg 🇱🇺’s #UPR46 recommendations to #Chile 🇨🇱:
1️⃣Set up a truth & justice process for child victims of violations under state custody
2️⃣Criminalise enforced disappearance
3️⃣Implement a comprehensive sexual education law
4️⃣Adopt law on women's right to a life free of violence

#Luxembourg ’s🇱🇺 #UPR46 recommendations to #NewZealand 🇳🇿:
1️⃣Ratify the CED
2️⃣Develop a national #BizHumanRights action plan
3️⃣ Fight child poverty, notably among Maori & Pacific Isl. children
4️⃣Review immigration law to end warrantless detention of asylum seekers arriving by boat

At the #UNGA today Amb Maes reaffirmed #Luxembourg ’s full support for the #IIIM and its crucial role in the fight against impunity in #Syria . #Justice is indispensable for peace

We thank Head of IIIM Catherine Marchi-Uhel and her team for their outstanding work over last 7 years

📢Happening now at United Nations Geneva!

UNICC is launching the #CybersecurityFund to provide cybersecurity solutions that benefit the #UNfamily . 🙌

Excited to gather UN agencies, diplomatic missions and governments, and cybersecurity experts for this milestone in UN cyber-resilience.