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UN Experts Warn Of Rights Violations Against Women & Girls From Christian & Other Religious Minority Communities

Tuesday, 9 June 2026, 8:01 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights

Displaced Christian and other minority women and girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual exploitation and abuse, including coercion into sexual acts in exchange for food or basic necessities. More >>

Indonesia: UN Experts Condemn Military Trial In Acid Attack Case Targeting Human Rights Defender Andrie Yunus

Thursday, 4 June 2026, 7:46 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights

“The use of a military trial in a case involving an extreme and targeted acid attack on a civilian raises serious concern regarding accountability, independence and transparency,” the experts said. More >>

Indigenous Peoples Gravely Vulnerable To Ebola Epidemic, Warn UN Independent Experts

Thursday, 4 June 2026, 7:43 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights

“Declared a public health emergency of international concern by the World Health Organisation, the Ebola outbreak is most prominent within or near Indigenous Peoples’ territories,” the experts said. More >>

UN Experts Strongly Condemn New US Threats And Coercion Against Cuba

Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 9:07 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights

“A democratic and equitable international order requires that all States, regardless of size or power, participate on equal footing, free from undue pressure,” they said. More >>

Occupied Palestinian Territory: UN Experts Alarmed By Escalating Settler Terror And Displacement

Tuesday, 2 June 2026, 7:16 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights

“Violence is used as a calculated, targeted tool to deny Palestinians access to essential services, agricultural and grazing areas, with the ultimate aim of severing the people's connection to the land,” the experts said. More >>

Brazil: UN Experts Call For Full Justice And Accountability Twenty Years After The Crimes Of May

Saturday, 30 May 2026, 6:21 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights

The UN experts stressed that the “Crimes of May” must be recognised as serious human rights violations and, thus, not subject to any statute of limitations. More >>

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 >>

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