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India: Attacks Against Woman Journalist Rana Ayyub Must Stop - UN Experts
Tuesday, 22 February 2022, 6:41 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (21 February 2022) – Relentless misogynistic and sectarian attacks online against journalist Rana Ayyub must be promptly and thoroughly investigated by the Indian authorities and the judicial harassment against her brought to an end at once, ... More >>
Cambodia: Stifling New Measures Against Striking Workers Are ‘Unjustified’ – UN Human Rights Experts
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 7:09 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (16 February 2022) – UN human rights experts* today criticised an ongoing COVID-19 quarantine imposed on striking casino workers in Cambodia, saying authorities must not disguise a crackdown on peaceful and lawful labour action as a public health ... More >>
Poland: Human Rights Defenders Face Threats And Intimidation At Belarus Border – UN Experts
Wednesday, 16 February 2022, 6:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (15 February 2022) – Poland must investigate all allegations of harassment of human rights defenders, including media workers and interpreters, at the border with Belarus, and grant access to journalists and humanitarian workers to the border ... More >>
Bangladesh: “Appalling And Pervasive Culture Of Impunity” For Killings Of Journalists – UN Experts
Saturday, 12 February 2022, 6:52 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 February 2022) – On the 10th anniversary of the murder of prominent journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi, UN human rights experts* have expressed their deep concern at the failure of the Bangladeshi authorities to complete ... More >>
UN Expert On Human Rights In DPRK To Visit South Korea
Saturday, 12 February 2022, 6:35 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 February 2022) – The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Tomás Ojea Quintana, will conduct an official visit to South Korea from 15 to 23 February to meet South Korean Government ... More >>
Canada: UN Experts Call For Urgent Repatriation Of Seriously Ill Woman From Syria Camp
Friday, 11 February 2022, 7:57 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (10 February 2022) - UN human rights experts* have called on Canada to urgently repatriate from Syria a woman who has life threatening illnesses, and who is being held at a camp under conditions meeting the threshold of torture, cruel, ... More >>
Sweden: Open Pit Mine Will Endanger Indigenous Lands And The Environment – UN Experts
Friday, 11 February 2022, 7:47 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (10 February 2022) - UN human rights experts* today urged Sweden not to issue a licence for an iron-ore mine in the Gaìllok region, home of the indigenous Saìmi people, saying the open-pit mine will generate vast amounts of pollution and toxic ... More >>
Mali: UN Expert To Conduct Human Rights Visit Amid Growing Tensions
Saturday, 5 February 2022, 6:33 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (4 February 2022) - The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Mali, Alioune Tine, will conduct an official visit to the country from 8 to 17 February. “I am extremely concerned about the continuing deterioration of the geopolitical ... More >>
Tunisia Urged To Repatriate Six Young Women And Children Held In Syrian Camps
Friday, 4 February 2022, 6:58 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (3 February 2022) - UN human rights experts have called on Tunisia to urgently repatriate six women and girls, aged between 3 and 22 years, who are being held in inhumane conditions at Al-Hol and al-Amarnah camps in northeast Syria. In 2014, four ... More >>
Cambodia: Data Surveillance Legislation Is ‘Repressive’, Must Not Be Implemented – UN Experts
Wednesday, 2 February 2022, 6:46 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (1 February 2022) – UN human rights experts* today urged Cambodian authorities to halt the planned implementation of data surveillance legislation, saying it is repressive and further undermines privacy rights and democratic freedoms in the country. ... More >>
Myanmar: One Year Into Coup, A New And Stronger Course Of International Action Is Needed – UN Expert
Wednesday, 2 February 2022, 6:41 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (1 February 2022) – One year after the Myanmar military launched a coup, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar released a video * featuring the voices of some of those in Myanmar who have suffered greatly ... More >>
Combating All Forms Of Antisemitism Must Remain Global Priority To Challenge Rising Hatred – UN Experts
Thursday, 27 January 2022, 7:03 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 27 January 2022 GENEVA (26 January 2022) – On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, UN human rights experts* reiterate their calls to combat antisemitism and all forms of religious ... More >>
Syria: UN Expert Urges States To ‘Save Their Boys’ Caught Up In ISIL Prison Attack
Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 6:48 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (25 January 2022) - A UN human rights expert today expressed serious concerns for the welfare of close to 700 children held at Al-Sina’a/Ghuwayran prison in Al-Hasakeh in northeast Syria, the scene of a deadly ISIL jailbreak, and called on ... More >>
UN Experts Deeply Concerned By Alleged Trafficking Of Vietnamese Migrant Workers To Serbia
Saturday, 22 January 2022, 7:09 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (21 January 2022) – UN human rights experts* today raised serious concerns about the alleged forced labour of a group of approximately 400 Vietnamese migrant workers, who are reported to be victims of trafficking in Serbia. According to information ... More >>
Afghanistan: Taliban Attempting To Steadily Erase Women And Girls From Public Life – UN Experts
Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 8:17 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (17 January 2022) – Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human rights experts* said today. The experts reiterated ... More >>
United Kingdom Nationality & Borders Bill Undermines Rights Of Victims Of Trafficking And Modern Slavery, UN Experts Say
Saturday, 15 January 2022, 6:57 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (14 January 2022) UN human rights experts* expressed serious concern over the United Kingdom's Nationality and Borders Bill, which they said breaches the country's obligations under international law. “If adopted, it would seriously undermine ... More >>
UN Rights Experts Decry Imminent Execution Of Juvenile Offender Hossein Shahbazi In Iran
Friday, 14 January 2022, 7:25 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (13 January 2022) UN human rights experts* expressed dismay at the decision by Iranian authorities to proceed with the execution of juvenile offender Hossein Shahbazi despite repeated calls to halt it. The execution of Mr. Shahbazi was scheduled ... More >>
Kazakhstan: UN Experts Condemn Lethal Force Against Protesters, Misuse Of Term ‘Terrorists’
Wednesday, 12 January 2022, 6:50 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 January 2022) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Kazakhstan authorities and security forces to halt their unrestrained use of force, including lethal force, against protesters and ensure that an independent and human-rights ... More >>
Guantanamo Bay: “Ugly Chapter Of Unrelenting Human Rights Violations” – UN Experts
Tuesday, 11 January 2022, 6:55 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (10 January 2022) – On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, UN experts* condemned the facility as a site of “unparalleled notoriety” and said its continued operation ... More >>
Cambodia: Arrests Of Strikers May Amount To Breach Of Human Rights Law – UN Experts
Thursday, 6 January 2022, 6:59 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (5 January 2022) – The arrest and detention of at least 29 casino union leaders and activists during a strike that began on New Year’s Eve in Cambodia may amount to a breach of human rights law, UN experts said today. “Many of the ... More >>
