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Alarmed By Complicity Of Online Pornographic Platforms & Other Intermediaries In Sexual Exploitation Of Women And Girls
Saturday, 16 May 2026, 9:31 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“The contrast is stark: individuals are imprisoned for trafficking, whilst the corporate entity that enabled and knowingly profited from the criminal enterprise on a large scale avoids conviction,” they said. More >>
Kazakhstan: UN Expert Commends Economic Development And Digitalisation
Saturday, 16 May 2026, 9:28 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Special Rapporteur’s report about this visit will be presented to the Human Rights Council in September 2027. More >>
Experts Urge Equatorial Guinea To Uphold International Obligations And Halt Returns Of Those At Risk
Thursday, 14 May 2026, 8:26 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The individuals detained in Malabo — including nationals of Angola, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Mauritania — are among a group of at least 29 people deported from the United States under a bilateral temporary transfer agreement. More >>
United Kingdom: UN Expert Alarmed By Systemic Erosion Of The Right To Protest
Thursday, 14 May 2026, 8:13 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
On 29 April, following multiple stabbings in Golders Green, London, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that he would consider banning some pro-Palestinian protests due to the “cumulative” effect that they were having on the UK Jewish community. More >>
Algeria: UN Experts Alarmed By Crackdown On Families Of Disappeared Persons And Civil Society
Thursday, 14 May 2026, 7:06 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The prohibition of enforced disappearance is absolute and peremptory under international law, giving rise to a nonderogable obligation to investigate such acts and to ensure those responsible are held accountable. More >>
Israel Must Immediately Release Gaza-Bound Flotilla Activists, Say UN Experts
Saturday, 9 May 2026, 6:07 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“When the international community failed to ensure the delivery of humanitarian supplies, global civil society has taken action,” the experts said. More >>
United States Must End “Energy Starvation” Of Cuba With Severe Human Rights Impacts: UN Experts
Friday, 8 May 2026, 11:23 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Cuba has been subjected to energy starvation by the United States, a condition in which the lack of fuel cripples the functioning of essential services required for a dignified life,” the experts said. More >>
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 >>
