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Iran: UN Experts Alarmed By Death Sentence Imposed On Rapper And Songwriter, Toomaj Salehi
Friday, 26 April 2024, 5:32 am | OHCHR
Toomaj Salehi’s harsh sentencing takes place against a backdrop of severe restriction on artistic freedom and other forms of expression in the country. UN experts have raised his case with Iranian authorities at various occasions since his arrest in ... More >>
UN Experts Urge Immediate Release Of Afghan Rights Defender
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 4:58 am | OHCHR
Ahmad Fahim Azimi was imprisoned on 17 October 2023 by the de facto authorities in Afghanistan along with his colleague Siddiqullah Afghan, seemingly in connection with their work and advocacy for women's and girls' right to education. More >>
Myanmar: Türk Sounds Alarm Amid Rising Tensions In Rakhine
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 4:58 am | OHCHR
Since the year-long informal ceasefire between the two sides broke down last November, 15 of Rakhine’s 17 townships have been affected by fighting, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries, and taking the number of displaced to well over 300,000. More >>
Israel/Gaza: UN Experts Condemn Destruction Of Judicial Infrastructure, Call For Protection Of Justice Operators
Wednesday, 17 April 2024, 12:18 pm | OHCHR
UN experts on 16 April called for the protection of justice operators in Israel and condemned the destruction of judicial infrastructure in Gaza. More >>
Russia: Oleg Orlov Trial Is An Abuse Of Legal System For Political Purposes, Says UN Expert
Friday, 5 April 2024, 10:12 am | OHCHR
“In keeping Oleg Orlov behind bars, on charges that have no grounds in international law, the Russian authorities show everyone in Russia the instruments they are willing to use to silence peaceful dissenters and independent voices and demonstrate the ... More >>
UN Expert Welcomes New York State Legislature Debate On Sovereign Debt Stability Bill
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 7:30 am | OHCHR
A UN expert today urged New York State authorities to adopt a bill to step up oversight of how debt from defaulted nations is restructured with creditors. “The Sovereign Stability Debt Bill creates an opportunity to outline a transparent procedure for ... More >>
Haiti: Türk Warns Of Deepening Human Rights Crisis Following Most Violent Month In Two Years
Monday, 12 February 2024, 5:14 am | OHCHR
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Friday issued an urgent warning about the deepening human rights catastrophe in Haiti, after figures showed that January was the most violent month in more than two years. “The already dire human ... More >>
Gaza: Türk Urges Ceasefire As Civilians Pushed To Frontier Amid Escalation
Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 5:22 pm | OHCHR
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk said today he feared for the rapidly increasing number of civilians in Gaza increasingly corralled towards the border with Egypt, as hostilities continue to escalate, including wave after wave of Israeli airstrikes, ... More >>
Israel Must Stop Using Water As A Weapon Of War
Saturday, 18 November 2023, 9:26 am | OHCHR
Israel must allow clean water and fuel into Gaza to activate the water supply network and desalination plants in the besieged enclave before it is too late, a UN expert warned today. "Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of ... More >>
UN Entities Demand Immediate Release Of Staff Detained In Yemen
Wednesday, 15 November 2023, 8:20 pm | OHCHR
It has been two years since two staff of UNESCO and the UN Human Rights Office were detained in Sana'a, Yemen. Since then, we have not received information about the reasons for their detention or their status, even though the Ansar Allah movement ... More >>
Gaza: Destroying Civilian Housing And Infrastructure Is An International Crime, Warns UN Expert
Thursday, 9 November 2023, 6:54 pm | OHCHR
The world must act now to end the horrifying and massive attacks against civilian housing and infrastructure in Gaza, which comes at a tremendous cost to human life, a UN expert said today. “Carrying out hostilities with the knowledge that they ... More >>
UN Human Rights Chief Condemns Rise In Hatred
Sunday, 5 November 2023, 9:45 am | OHCHR
UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today strongly deplored the sharp rise in hatred globally - including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - since 7 October, while at the same time expressing concerns about undue restrictions on protests over the conflict ... More >>
UN Human Rights Committee Publishes Findings On Iran, Kuwait, Korea, Trinidad And Tobago, USA And Venezuela
Saturday, 4 November 2023, 5:56 pm | OHCHR
The UN Human Rights Committee today issued its findings on the Islamic Republic of Iran, Kuwait, the Republic of Korea, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States of America and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, after examining the six States ... More >>
Fighting Against Contemporary Forms Of Slavery
Thursday, 7 September 2023, 4:55 am | OHCHR
Canada’s temporary foreign worker programmes are a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery, a UN expert said today, urging the country to do more to protect workers and offer a clear pathway to permanent residency for all migrants. “I am ... More >>
Continuing Abuses In Manipur, India
Tuesday, 5 September 2023, 4:54 am | OHCHR
UN experts* today raised the alarm about reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in the Northeast State of Manipur in India, including alleged acts of sexual violence, extrajudicial killings, home destruction, forced displacement, torture ... More >>
Global North's Refuses To Waive COVID-19 Vaccine Intellectual Property Rights
Friday, 1 September 2023, 6:55 am | OHCHR
Global North States’ persistent refusal to waive COVID-19 vaccine intellectual property rights violated non-discrimination guarantee, UN Committee warns The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) today called on State ... More >>
Torture And 2,000 Prison Tariffs In UK
Thursday, 31 August 2023, 5:41 am | OHCHR
A UN torture expert today called on the UK Government to begin an urgent review of sentences imposed on prisoners held indefinitely under the widely discredited and now abandoned Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) system. “The Government ... More >>
Russian Court Decisions On Laws Discrediting Armed Forces A 'New Low'
Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 7:44 am | OHCHR
UN experts* today expressed grave concern about recent decisions by Russia’s Constitutional Court to dismiss challenges to the constitutionality of the country’s legislative provisions that criminalise all “public actions aimed at discrediting” the Russian ... More >>
Call For Safe, Impartial Border Policies & Practices In Greece
Thursday, 24 August 2023, 4:06 pm | OHCHR
UN experts * today urged Greece to adopt safe and impartial border protection policies and practices and condemned the lack of accountability for violations involving Greek law enforcement personnel. “We urge Greece to take steps to ensure a transparent ... More >>
Widespread Use Of Rape & Sexual Violence By RSF In Sudan
Friday, 18 August 2023, 8:48 am | OHCHR
UN experts* today expressed alarm at reports of brutal and widespread use of rape and other forms of sexual violence by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during the four-month-old internal armed conflict in the Republic of Sudan and called for an end to the ongoing ... More >>
