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Russia: UN Experts Condemn Civil Society Shutdown
Thursday, 14 July 2022, 5:33 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (13 July 2022) – UN human rights experts* today condemned the continued and heightened crackdown on civil society groups, human rights defenders and media outlets by Russian authorities, and called on the Government to stop the clampdown ... More >>
Syria: UN Experts Urge Security Council To Prioritise Humanitarian Support
Saturday, 9 July 2022, 1:27 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (8 July 2022) – In view of the resolution on the situation in Syria to be adopted by United Nations Security Council members, a group of UN experts* have called on all relevant stakeholders to extend resolution 2585 (2021) on cross-border ... More >>
UN Experts Deplore Execution Of Malaysian National In Singapore
Saturday, 9 July 2022, 1:25 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (8 July 2022) – UN human rights experts* today deplored the execution of Kalwant Singh a/l Jogindar Singh, a Malaysian national convicted of drug offences in Singapore. Singh’s death sentence was enforced early in the morning on 7 July ... More >>
Unilateral Sanctions Threaten Scientific Research And Academic Freedom: UN Experts
Friday, 8 July 2022, 6:42 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (7 July 2022) – UN human rights experts* today raised concerns over expanding the application of unilateral sanctions into areas of scientific and academic research and publishing, after reports that academic research submitted by authors from sanctioned ... More >>
Brazil: UN Experts Decry Acts Of Racialised Police Brutality
Thursday, 7 July 2022, 6:10 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (6 July 2022) - Following the killing of at least 23 people by police over consecutive days, UN experts called on the Brazilian Government to adopt wide-ranging reforms to put an end to police violence, de-militarise all law enforcement agencies ... More >>
UN General Assembly Must Affirm Right To Healthy Environment: UN Experts
Thursday, 7 July 2022, 6:07 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (6 July 2022) – With the world embroiled in a multi-faceted environmental crisis, UN experts* today urged the United Nations General Assembly to recognise that living in a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is a fundamental human ... More >>
Human Rights And Environmental Due Diligence Laws Crucial To Combat Irresponsible Business Activities – UN Expert
Tuesday, 5 July 2022, 5:58 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (4 July 2022) – Rampant deforestation, chemical and plastic production, fossil fuel exploitation and other large-scale extractive activities by business entities are harming people and the planet, a UN expert said today, introducing a ... More >>
Mauritius: UN Expert Applauds Progress On Sale And Exploitation Of Children, Challenges Still Remain
Friday, 1 July 2022, 6:06 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
PORT LOUIS (30 June 2022) – Tackling poverty, social exclusion and segregation of children in marginalised communities is key to preventing them from falling victim of sexual abuse and commercial sexual exploitation, the UN Special Rapporteur on ... More >>
Belarus ‘Engulfed In Fear’ As Systematic Violations And Impunity Persist: UN Expert
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 6:44 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (29 July 2022) – The human rights situation in Belarus continues to deteriorate dangerously, engulfing the country in a climate of fear and arbitrary rule, a UN expert warned today. Presenting her annual report to the Human Rights Council, UN ... More >>
Cambodia: Opposition Mass Trials Deeply Flawed – UN Rights Experts
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 5:57 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (29 June 2022) – UN human rights experts* today called for an urgent review of the legal proceedings brought against opposition politicians in Cambodia after at least 43 defendants were convicted at a third mass trial on charges of plotting ... More >>
Financial Sector Overcompliance With Unilateral Sanctions Is Harmful To Human Rights: UN Expert
Wednesday, 29 June 2022, 6:02 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (28 June 2022) – A UN human rights expert today urged banks and other financial institutions around the world to stop over-complying with sanctions regimes imposed by various countries, saying the practice was inadvertently leading to human rights ... More >>
USA: UN Experts Denounce Supreme Court Decision To Strike Down Roe V. Wade, Urge Action To Mitigate Consequences
Monday, 27 June 2022, 7:20 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (24 June 2022) - UN human rights experts* today denounced the decision by the US Supreme Court to strike down Roe v. Wade, a near half-century legal precedent that has protected women’s right to choose to have an abortion and called on President ... More >>
Ensuring Media Freedom And Safety Of Journalists Requires Urgent Concrete Action Backed By Political Will: UN Expert
Monday, 27 June 2022, 7:18 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (24 June 2022) – Media freedom and safety of journalists have declined dangerously around the world with grave negative impacts on human rights, democracy and development globally, a UN expert warned today. “In a climate of surging authoritarianism ... More >>
“Intolerable Tide” Of People Displaced By Climate Change: UN Expert
Friday, 24 June 2022, 6:23 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (23 June 2022) – Tackling the devastating effects of extreme weather changes and disasters on communities in vulnerable situations across the world will be a top priority, the new UN expert on human rights and climate change told the Human ... More >>
Myanmar: UN Expert Encouraged By Malaysia’s Leadership On Myanmar Crisis; Urges Regional States To Adopt Similar Stance
Friday, 24 June 2022, 6:14 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
KUALA LUMPUR (23 June 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, today expressed his appreciation for Malaysia’s increasing leadership on the crisis in Myanmar, and urged States in the region to ... More >>
Improve Forensic Investigation Capacity To Ensure Accountability And Prevent Unlawful Deaths: UN Expert
Thursday, 23 June 2022, 6:29 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (22 June 2022) – The capacity of States to investigate all potentially unlawful deaths, as required under international law, is too often hindered, Morris Tidball-Binz, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, ... More >>
Brazil: “Poison Package” Draft Bill On Pesticides Will Undermine Rights Protection Say UN Experts
Thursday, 23 June 2022, 6:25 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (22 June 2022) - UN experts* have urged the Brazilian Senate to reject a draft bill on pesticides, warning that its adoption will mark a monumental setback for human rights in the country. In advance of key hearings at the Senate on the ... More >>
Greece: Migration Policy Having “Suffocating Effect” On Human Rights Defenders Says UN Expert
Thursday, 23 June 2022, 6:17 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
ATHENS (22 June 2022) – Greek authorities must move towards a policy on migration that puts human rights and support for human rights defenders at its core, a UN expert said today. “Geopolitical circumstances and a lack of support by the EU have led ... More >>
Malaysia: UN Experts Welcome Announcement To Abolish Mandatory Death Penalty
Tuesday, 21 June 2022, 6:00 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (20 June 2022) – UN human rights experts* today commended an announcement made by the Malaysian government that it will abolish the country’s mandatory death penalty and encouraged Parliament to take concrete steps to pass the agreement into ... More >>
UN Expert: Tackling Discrimination Against LGBTI Persons Is A Right To Health And Sustainable Development Imperative
Saturday, 18 June 2022, 5:59 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (17 June 2022) – Discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity deprive countless people around the world of their right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, a UN expert told the Human ... More >>
