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Sexual And Gender-Based Violence Against Palestinians Driving Displacement, Warn UN Experts
Friday, 1 May 2026, 10:02 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts called on Israel to immediately end all practices of sexual and gender-based violence and hold all perpetrators accountable. More >>
Algeria: Trial Against Hirak Poet Mohamed Tadjadit Must Be Quashed, Say UN Experts
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 9:21 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts urged Algeria to abandon the new charges and vacate the earlier conviction. More >>
UN Experts Urge Saudi Arabia To End Kafala System Amidst World Cup Preparations
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 9:12 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Kafala system gives employers complete control over migrant workers’ legal status, residency, job mobility and travel. Workers often need their sponsor’s permission to leave the country, change jobs or access legal help. More >>
Gaza Damage Assessment Must Require End To Occupation And Discrimination Of Palestinians: UN Experts
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 8:32 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Reconstruction must be inclusive, participatory, transparent and accountable, with Palestinians shaping decisions, reflecting the broader principle of self-determination, an inalienable right that the Palestinian People have under international law. More >>
Myanmar: UN Expert Calls For International Action To End Impunity And Break Cycle Of Violence
Wednesday, 29 April 2026, 2:22 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Andrews warned that the people of Myanmar are frustrated and angry that a decades-long cycle of violence and oppression in their country continues unabated, with not a single senior military official having been held accountable. More >>
UN Experts Raise Concern About Increasing Attacks On National Human Rights Institutions
Tuesday, 28 April 2026, 7:45 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Findings from an upcoming report by the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions confirm an escalation in both the scale and nature of threats faced by NHRIs. More >>
Iraq: UN Experts Demand Investigation Into Murder Of Woman Human Rights Defender
Sunday, 26 April 2026, 8:57 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Government of Iraq must work to end the online and physical abuse, threats and targeting of women human rights defenders and create a safe and enabling environment for them. More >>
UN Experts Concerned By Forced Conversion Through Marriage In Pakistan
Thursday, 23 April 2026, 6:27 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The scale and persistence of these grave human rights violations point to systemic discrimination against non-Muslim women and girls who are forced or compelled to convert to Islam in order to marry Muslim men. More >>
India: UN Experts Warn Jagtar Singh Johal’s Prolonged Detention Amounts To Psychological Torture
Thursday, 23 April 2026, 6:19 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
According to recent reports, Johal’s conditions have worsened. He has faced restrictions on contact with his family, limited access to basic hygiene, and periods of solitary confinement. More >>
UN Experts Condemn Israel’s Unprecedented Bombing In Lebanon After Ceasefire Announcement, Demand Immediate Halt
Thursday, 16 April 2026, 7:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
According to the Government of Lebanon, since 2 March, the Israeli army has killed more than 2,000 people in Lebanon, including health workers and journalists, and injured 6,588 others. More >>
France: Draft Antisemitism Law Could Seriously Undermine Free Expression And Other Human Rights, Warn UN Experts
Wednesday, 15 April 2026, 10:02 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Bill, which was introduced on 19 November 2024, would criminalise inciting to terrorism “even implicitly”, as well as expressions deemed to “minimise” or “excessively trivialise” terrorist acts or their authors. More >>
Escalating Violence Creates Child Trafficking Crisis In South Sudan, Says UN Expert
Friday, 10 April 2026, 11:34 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Trafficking survivors face overwhelming barriers to healthcare, with limited or no medical or psycho-social services available, prohibitive costs, stigma, insecurity and fears of retaliation. More >>
Strategy Of Blatant Abuse Of Counter-Terrorism And Extremism Laws To Destroy Russian Civil Society Must End: UN Experts
Friday, 10 April 2026, 10:45 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Russian authorities must immediately halt proceedings against human rights defenders and anti-war critics and release all those arbitrarily detained for their peaceful human rights work. More >>
UN Expert Urges Tunisia To End Criminalisation Of Judge Anas Hmedi
Friday, 3 April 2026, 10:49 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The expert stated that the investigation was based on a false complaint and the executive deliberately intervened to change the venue to another court far from the place of the act attributed to Judge Anas Hmedi and from his place of residence. More >>
South Sudan: UN Experts Urge Immediate Protection Of Civilians Amid Escalating Crisis
Friday, 3 April 2026, 10:43 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts urged the international community to take swift action. “Without immediate and sustained support, millions risk being left without the assistance they need for survival,” they said. More >>
Israel’s Death Penalty Law Constitutes Discriminatory Regime Of Capital Punishment: UN Experts
Friday, 3 April 2026, 10:27 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts pointed to the wider legal and institutional context, after the International Court of Justice found that Israel’s legislation and measures in the occupied Palestinian territory violate the prohibition of racial segregation and apartheid. More >>
UN Expert Welcomes International Olympic Committee Policy Protecting Female Categories In Sport
Friday, 3 April 2026, 9:50 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The expert urged both competitive and non-competitive sports associations to align their policies with the International Olympic Committee’s standards for the protection of the female category in sport. More >>
Lebanon: UN Experts Call For International Independent Investigation Into Israel’s Killing Of Journalists
Friday, 3 April 2026, 9:47 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Israeli forces killed Al Manar TV reporter Ali Shoeib, and Al Mayadeen reporter Fatima Ftouni and cameraman Mohamed Ftouni, in a series of targeted strikes on their car as they drove through Jezzine in Lebanon, while on a reporting assignment. More >>
Ending War Between USA-Israel And Iran Must Focus On Human Rights Of Iranians: UN Experts
Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 7:27 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“An end to the war is urgent and necessary but it will not on its own resolve Iran’s human rights crisis,” the experts warned. “The deteriorating human rights situation in Iran did not begin with the strikes, and it will not end when they stop.” More >>
USA: UN Experts Welcome Minnesota Truth-Seeking Entity And Urge Nation-Wide Investigations
Sunday, 29 March 2026, 8:27 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“In any democracy rooted in the rule of law, such violations must never be ignored or left unaddressed,” the experts said. More >>
