United Nations Voluntary Fund’s grantees & organizations working for victims of torture
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2017-091-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2017
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 41.36362019887259
Longitude: -16.875000000000004
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Multiple/other
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- Other
- Dates of prior UN action
- 21 October 2016
- Type of record
- Unnamed individual/group/organization
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Type of rights defended
- Civil/political rights
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
external funding from the Voluntary Fund.
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Voluntary fund / torture victims
- Dates of engagement
- Unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Other
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- Unclear
- Reprisal information
freezing the banking assets of human rights organizations working for victims of torture, in order to impede external funding, including from the Voluntary Fund
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Administrative reprisal
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Further case development
On 1 November 2016, the High Commissioner in his response expressed concern about the feedback provided on situations of reprisals against a number of the Fund’s grantees, and stated that he would share these observations with the Assistant Secretary-General.
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0
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