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Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan On The Attack Against Gaza-Bound Flotilla
Thursday, 25 September 2025, 8:04 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
There must be an independent, impartial and thorough investigation into the reported attacks and harassment by drones and other objects against the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla. More >>
Kyrgyzstan: Torture Prevention Seriously Undermined By New Law, UN Human Rights Chief Warns
Thursday, 25 September 2025, 7:43 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
On 23 September, it was announced that the Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov had signed a law mandating the closure of the National Centre for the Prevention of Torture (NCPT) and transferring its torture prevention mandate to the Ombudsperson. More >>
Sudan Crisis Deepens Amid Rising Civilian Casualties, Growing Ethnic Violence And Grim Humanitarian Situation: UN Report
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 8:00 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The report also points to “recurring patterns of conflict-related sexual violence, used as a weapon of war as part of wider attacks involving other violations”. More >>
DPRK: UN Report Finds 10 Years Of Increased Suffering, Repression And Fear
Saturday, 13 September 2025, 6:47 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
A significant aspect of the report is the link between the degrading human rights situation in the DPRK, the country’s increasing self-imposed isolation and the peace and security situation on the Korean Peninsula. More >>
Enhanced Interactive Dialogue On The Democratic Republic Of The Congo
Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 6:58 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The mission reports that all those involved in the latest shocking upsurge of violence in North and South Kivu provinces committed gross violations and abuses of international human rights law and serious violations of international humanitarian law. More >>
Nepal: Türk Appalled By Protest Killings, Says Violence Is Not The Answer
Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 7:45 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The High Commissioner said protesters have the right to express peacefully their political frustrations and grievances over corruption and a ban on social media platforms. More >>
HC Türk Updates The Human Rights Council: “We Need To Safeguard Eighty Years Of Progress On Freedom, Equality & Justice”
Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 6:40 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Human rights provide a compass to steer us through the challenges of our time, from the climate crisis to technological developments. More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani On Violence During Protests In Nepal
Tuesday, 9 September 2025, 8:00 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
We have received several deeply worrying allegations of unnecessary or disproportionate use of force by security forces during protests organized by youth groups demonstrating against corruption and the recent Government ban on social media platforms. More >>
Türk Calls On The US To Withdraw Sanctions Against Palestinian Rights Groups
Saturday, 6 September 2025, 8:21 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
“The work of civil society in documenting violations and engaging with international accountability mechanisms is all the more important when international humanitarian and human rights laws are being violated systematically in Gaza and the West Bank, ... More >>
DRC: UN Report Raises Spectre Of War Crimes And Crimes Against Humanity In North And South Kivu
Saturday, 6 September 2025, 8:18 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The report was produced by the UN Human Rights Office's Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on the situation in North and South Kivu, as mandated by the UN Human Rights Council. More >>
Mali: Türk Deplores Indefinite Suspension Of Elections, Deepening Crackdown On Civil Society
Friday, 5 September 2025, 7:33 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
On 8 July, the transitional president signed into law a bill providing for presidential terms to be renewable without elections “as many times as necessary, until peace is restored in the country”. More >>
Cameroon: Restrictions On Civic Space Risk Undermining Presidential Election, Türk Warns
Thursday, 4 September 2025, 8:48 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
“Equal access to participation in electoral processes for all Cameroonians is absolutely essential. Any measures that could disenfranchise sections of Cameroonian society should be promptly addressed,” the High Commissioner said. More >>
Myanmar: Death, Destruction And Desperation Mirror 2017 Atrocities – UN Report
Thursday, 4 September 2025, 8:44 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Since the escalation of hostilities in Rakhine, hundreds of thousands more people have been displaced, the report says. The United Nations estimates some 150,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since November 2023, joining nearly one million already taking ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani On Indonesia Protests
Tuesday, 2 September 2025, 8:26 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
We call for prompt, thorough, and transparent investigations into all alleged violations of international human rights law, including with respect to use of force. More >>
BRIEFING NOTES: Iran
Saturday, 30 August 2025, 5:37 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Once again, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk calls on Iran to impose a moratorium on the application of the capital punishment, as a step towards its abolition. More >>
Türk Calls On Egypt To End “Rotation” Practice That Facilitates Prolonged Arbitrary Detentions
Wednesday, 27 August 2025, 6:41 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The UN Human Rights Office is closely following a number of cases of “rotation”. Indications are that the practice is widely used in cases of politically motivated charges. The lack of transparency in such cases, however, makes it difficult to assess ... More >>
BRIEFING NOTES: (1) Sudan (EN/AR) ; (2) Myanmar; (3) Gaza
Sunday, 24 August 2025, 6:08 pm | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Humanitarian assistance and workers are protected explicitly under international humanitarian law and must not be targeted. Attacks on humanitarian efforts only worsens the human rights situation for civilians. More >>
Peru: Türk Dismayed By Amnesty Law That Grants Impunity To Perpetrators Of Gross Human Rights Violations
Friday, 15 August 2025, 8:55 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Peruvian President on 13 August signed into law legislation that grants amnestyto members of the security and armed forces and self-defence committees for crimes committed during the internal armed conflict that took place between 1980 and 2000. More >>
Sudan: Türk Outraged After RSF Kills At Least 57 Civilians In El Fasher And Abu Shouk IDP Camp
Friday, 15 August 2025, 7:51 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The UN Human Rights Chief reiterated his call on all parties to take urgent measures to ensure the protection of civilians, including safe passage out of conflict-affected areas. He also urged them to agree promptly to humanitarian pauses in besieged areas, ... More >>
Comment By UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Liz Throssell On Denial Of Bail To Ugandan Opposition Leader
Friday, 15 August 2025, 7:42 am | UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Besigye and Lutale were on 8 August denied bail for the third time since their abduction in neighbouring Kenya and forcible return to Uganda in November last year. More >>
