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Afghanistan: Taliban’s Outrageous Exclusion Of Women & Girls From Universities Is Disastrous For Everyone
Thursday, 22 December 2022, 7:55 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (21 December 2022) -- UN experts* today condemned in the strongest terms the latest decision of the Taliban that excludes women and girls from universities, a further violation of their human rights and the application of multiple irrational ... More >>
UK: UN Experts Condemn Attacks On Credibility Of Slavery And Trafficking Victims
Tuesday, 20 December 2022, 5:23 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (19 December 2022) – Demonising victims of trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery erodes public sympathy for measures to protect them and may lead to attacks on these groups by extremists, UN experts warned today, urging the United ... More >>
Israel: UN Experts Condemn Record Year Of Israeli Violence In The Occupied West Bank
Sunday, 18 December 2022, 5:37 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (15 December 2022) – UN experts* condemned the rampant Israeli settler violence and excessive use of force by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank this year that have made 2022 the deadliest in this area of the ... More >>
Peru: Toxic Discharges Threaten The Health Of Millions And Right To Safe Drinking Water, Says UN Expert
Sunday, 18 December 2022, 5:26 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
LIMA/GENEVA (15 December 2022) – “The government of Peru must address the poisoning of water. Toxic and heavy metals discharges are undermining the health and right to safe drinking water of ten million Peruvians and risking the health of future ... More >>
Afghanistan: UN Experts Call On The Taliban To Immediately Halt Public Floggings And Executions
Saturday, 17 December 2022, 1:20 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (16 December 2022) -- UN experts are deeply aggrieved about a public execution and that flogging has resumed in Afghanistan and call on the de facto authorities to halt immediately all forms of torturous, cruel and degrading forms of punishments. ... More >>
UN Expert On Gender Identity Calls On Scottish Parliament To Adopt Gender Recognition Reform Bill
Saturday, 17 December 2022, 1:15 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (16 December 2022) – The UN human rights expert on gender identity urged the Scottish Government to complete its deliberations and adopt the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, bringing the Scottish system closer into line with its international ... More >>
UK: Flawed Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ Bill Flagrantly Contravenes Rights Obligations, Say UN Experts
Friday, 16 December 2022, 8:20 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (15 December 2022) – UN experts* warned that proposed legislation now before the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) fails to comply with the State’s obligation to investigate serious human rights violations ... More >>
Comprehensive Anti-discrimination Legislation Must Be A Priority: UN Experts Ahead Of Universal Declaration Anniversary
Friday, 9 December 2022, 7:13 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (7 December 2022) – Independent United Nations experts today urged all UN member states to prioritise enacting, enforcing and implementing anti-discrimination legislation, as the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released new ... More >>
Mexico: Government And Business Must Address Negative Impacts Of Train Maya Project, Say UN Experts
Friday, 9 December 2022, 7:08 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (7 December 2022) – UN experts said today they were concerned the 1,500-kilometre Train Maya project on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula was endangering the rights of indigenous peoples and other communities to land and natural resources, cultural ... More >>
Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework: Urgent Need To Protect Nature And Human Rights, Say UN Experts
Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 6:56 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (6 December 2022) – In order to realise a “world living in harmony with nature” by 2050, UN experts today called on States to ensure that the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is centred on human rights. “Healthy biodiversity ... More >>
Israeli Deportation Order Against French-Palestinian Activist Salah Hammouri Could Constitute War Crime: UN Experts
Monday, 5 December 2022, 5:11 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (2 December 2022) – Israel’s decision to deport French-Palestinian human rights defender and lawyer Salah Hammouri to France against his will may constitute a war crime under the Geneva Convention, UN experts* warned today. On 30 November ... More >>
Iran Must Immediately Release Critically Ill Human Rights Defender Arash Sadeghi: UN Experts
Saturday, 3 December 2022, 5:18 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (2 December 2022) – UN human rights experts* today expressed alarm over the deteriorating health situation of jailed human rights defender Arash Sadeghi and called for his immediate release from prison. Arash Sadeghi, who has been arrested ... More >>
Myanmar: Over 50,000 Exposed To Forced Evictions And Housing Destruction, Say UN Experts
Saturday, 3 December 2022, 5:12 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (2 December 2022) - The Myanmar Military is forcibly evicting over 50,000 people from informal settlements and systematically destroying homes in a fundamental violation of core human rights obligations, UN experts said today. More than 40,000 ... More >>
Saudi Arabia: UN Experts Call For Immediate Moratorium On Executions For Drug Offences
Friday, 2 December 2022, 5:44 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (1 December 2022) – UN experts* said today they were concerned a 57- year-old Jordanian citizen may soon be executed for drug offences that do not meet the threshold for “most serious crimes” and continued to recommend the Government of Saudi ... More >>
Argentina’s Pending Debt Is The Effective Investigation And Prevention Of All Unlawful Deaths: UN Expert
Sunday, 27 November 2022, 6:04 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
BUENOS AIRES/GENEVA (25 November 2022) – Argentina’s exemplary democratic and human rights achievements are in contrast to persistent – and mostly invisible – institutional violence resulting in deaths, a UN expert said today. “I urge ... More >>
Afghanistan: Latest Taliban Treatment Of Women And Girls May Be Crime Against Humanity, Say UN Experts
Sunday, 27 November 2022, 5:55 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (25 November 2022) – UN experts* today said the latest actions by Taliban de facto authorities targeting women and girls deepen existing flagrant violations of their human rights and freedoms that are already the most draconian globally and ... More >>
UN Expert Urges Republic Of Korea To Play Enhanced Leadership Role To Address Myanmar Crisis
Tuesday, 22 November 2022, 7:16 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
SEOUL/GENEVA (21 November 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar today urged the Republic of Korea (ROK) to take even stronger action to help reverse the international community’s failure to address the crisis ... More >>
Iran: Stop Sentencing Peaceful Protesters To Death, Say UN Experts
Saturday, 12 November 2022, 5:25 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 November 2022) -- UN experts* today urged Iranian authorities to stop indicting people with charges punishable by death for participation, or alleged participation, in peaceful demonstrations. Eight people were charged on 29 October by the Islamic ... More >>
UN Experts Call For Immediate Release Of Alaa Abdel Fattah
Saturday, 12 November 2022, 5:24 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 November 2022) – UN experts* today joined the growing chorus of human rights voices expressing fears for the life of Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and demanding his release. The experts reiterated their concern about ... More >>
UN Expert Calls For Lifting Of Long-lasting Unilateral Sanctions ‘Suffocating’ Syrian People
Saturday, 12 November 2022, 4:58 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
DAMASCUS/GENEVA (10 November) – UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights Alena Douhan today urged sanctioning States to lift unilateral sanctions against Syria, warning that they were perpetuating and exacerbating the destruction ... More >>
