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“An Assault On The Administration Of Justice”: US Sanctions Against ICC Threaten System Of International Accountability
Monday, 12 October 2026, 9:33 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Sanctioning the institution entrusted with delivering justice for the gravest international crimes is an assault on the foundations of international accountability and rule of law,” the experts said. More >>
Iran: UN Experts Urge Immediate Halt To Executions As Country Drives Global Surge
Saturday, 10 October 2026, 6:19 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
No one arrested over the protests should be executed, regardless of the accusations brought against them. More >>
Greenlandic Forced Contraception: Experts Say Truth, Remedy & Accountability Must Remain Centred On Inuit Women’s Rights
Thursday, 8 October 2026, 8:05 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“True and effective remedy or healing cannot be achieved without first establishing a clear, accurate and undisputed record of historical facts,” the experts said. More >>
Checkpoints In The Occupied West Bank Choking Palestinian Life, Warns UN Expert
Monday, 5 October 2026, 2:47 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
As of December 2025, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs documented 925 checkpoints and other obstacles restricting the movement of some 3.4 million Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. More >>
US Migration Externalization Scheme Mires Over 35 Other States, Triggering Cascade Of Human Rights Violations
Tuesday, 29 September 2026, 8:24 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts have issued communications to the US and all Governments with which it entered into externalization agreements as of June 2026 – a total of 35 countries and territories so far. More >>
Iran: UN Experts Demand End To Unlawful Killings Of Kurdish Border Couriers And Baloch Fuel Carriers
Thursday, 24 September 2026, 7:09 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
At least 12 kolbars have reportedly been shot dead by Iran’s border forces or Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps since the start of 2026. More >>
“Nowhere Is Safe”: UN Special Rapporteur Exposes Russia’s Global Transnational Repression Campaign
Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 7:08 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Since February 2022, between 650,000 and 900,000 people have left Russia: the country’s largest political emigration since the 20th century. More >>
Pakistan Must Stop Removals Of Afghans At Risk Of Torture And Other Serious Human Rights Violations: UN Experts
Monday, 21 September 2026, 8:04 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
"The immediate priority is the establishment of a transparent and accessible procedure through which Afghans at risk can come forward, be individually assessed, & obtain protection from removal while that assessment is carried out," the experts said More >>
UN Experts Outraged By Funeral Honours Accorded To Ratko Mladić, Former General Convicted Of Srebrenica Genocide
Thursday, 17 September 2026, 8:17 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“For survivors of atrocities in the former Yugoslavia and families of those killed or forcibly disappeared, official tributes to persons convicted of such crimes can deepen suffering and undermine memory, truth and accountability,” the experts said. More >>
Penalising Peasant Seed Systems Threatens Global Food Supply: UN Experts
Thursday, 17 September 2026, 7:19 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
In its latest report to the UN Human Rights Council, the Working Group said almost all the world's food comes from seeds, and traditional systems supply 70 to 90 per cent of the seed sown in many countries. More >>
Coordination Committee Of Special Procedures Calls For Renewed Support To Mandate Holders In Challenging Times
Tuesday, 15 September 2026, 7:07 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Special Procedures experts will continue to carry out their responsibilities with independence, impartiality and rigor, guided by international human rights law and the voices of victims and survivors. More >>
Taliban Policies Denying Afghan Children A Future, Warns UN Expert
Tuesday, 8 September 2026, 7:24 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
By dismantling the legal framework and weakening and repurposing institutions that previously protected and promoted children’s rights, the Taliban has exposed Afghan children to violence, abuse and exploitation, the expert said. More >>
USA: UN Experts Urge Immediate Halt To Christa Pike’s Execution
Tuesday, 8 September 2026, 7:21 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Pike’s execution would mark the culmination of a trajectory of severe physical and psychological suffering marked by childhood abuse and nearly three decades of solitary confinement on death row,” the experts said. More >>
Gaza: UN Expert Warns Israeli Rubble-Clearing Could Erase Traces Of Atrocity Crimes
Tuesday, 8 September 2026, 7:11 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
According to the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, between October 2023 and October 2025, at least 92 per cent of Gaza’s housing units alongside extensive civilian infrastructure, had been destroyed or damaged. More >>
Pakistan: Student Killing Denounced Amid Ongoing Enforced Disappearances & Extrajudicial Killings Of Baloch People
Sunday, 6 September 2026, 3:19 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts warned that Ali’s death is not an isolated incident but reflective of a pattern of what appears to be a widespread and escalating practice of unlawful detention. More >>
Syrian Arab Republic: UN Experts Urge Repeal Of Dispossession Laws
Thursday, 3 September 2026, 7:54 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts noted that the 2025 Constitutional Declaration proclaims the right to property, and the importance of private and family life (Articles 13, 14 and 20), but remains silent about the right to adequate housing. More >>
9 Years On: Rohingya Continue To Face Atrocity Crimes, Mass Displacement & Growing Humanitarian Crisis, Warn UN Experts
Wednesday, 26 August 2026, 7:25 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Reports indicate that more than 1.6 million Rohingya refugees remained outside Myanmar at the end of 2025, with the vast majority living in Bangladesh and others in India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. More >>
Singapore: UN Experts Condemn Unlawful Executions For Drug Offences
Wednesday, 19 August 2026, 7:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Capital proceedings require the highest standards of fairness and due process. No execution can be lawful where the death sentence results from proceedings that fail to meet these guarantees,” said the UN experts. More >>
UK: Revised Code Of Practice Risks Institutionalising Discrimination Against Transgender And Gender-Diverse Persons
Tuesday, 18 August 2026, 7:05 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The revised Code treats a service that includes both cisgender and transgender women as a mixed-sex service and states that such a service must be open to all users. More >>
New Russian Law Inflicts “Civic Death” On Govt Critics Abroad As “Traitors To The Motherland”: UN Special Rapporteur
Friday, 14 August 2026, 8:47 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
This is a targeted punishment of anti-war voices and Govt critics en masse, designed to make life outside Russia unsustainable. Those affected keep the duties of citizenship but lose most of its content thus rendering them de facto stateless. More >>
