The division of Cyprus continues to forestall the complete enjoyment of human rights by all of the island's inhabitants, says the annual report of the Workplace of the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights.
The report evaluations human rights points in Cyprus through the interval from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023.
The 15-page report notes that whereas Cyprus has steadily returned to a way of normalcy regardless of the continuing presence of the coronavirus illness, challenges, together with discrimination, stay within the full enjoyment of particular person, political,
Financial, social and cultural rights. It added that “folks in susceptible conditions, resembling migrants and minorities and the Turkish Cypriot neighborhood, are disproportionately affected”.
The UN report additionally notes that whereas crossing factors continued to perform usually, “the restricted variety of crossing factors, lengthy queues and discrimination at crossings, impeded the proper to free motion and interplay between the 2 communities.”
It’s pressured that “additional efforts should be made to extend the variety of crossing factors and for commerce and alternatives for significant intercommunal contact as a key component of reconciliation and confidence constructing”.
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