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Hungary: Government’s Stranglehold On Media Poses Serious Risks To Human Rights - UN Expert
Tuesday, 23 November 2021, 6:58 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (22 November 2021) - Hungary’s interventions in the media sector over the past decade could create risks for human rights in the upcoming elections, the UN expert on freedom of opinion and expression said at the end of an official visit ... More >>
China: Journalist Jailed For COVID Reporting Seriously Ill, Must Be Released – UN Experts
Tuesday, 23 November 2021, 6:52 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (22 November 2021) - UN human rights experts* today urged China to immediately release imprisoned citizen journalist and woman human rights defender Zhang Zhan on humanitarian grounds, saying her health is deteriorating rapidly and her life ... More >>
Saint Vincent And Grenadines: UN Expert To Assess Effect Of Climate Change And Environmental Risks On Human Rights
Tuesday, 23 November 2021, 6:38 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (22 November 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David R. Boyd, will visit Saint Vincent and the Grenadines from 25 November to 2 December. This is the first visit of the Special Rapporteur to a small island ... More >>
Honduras: Release Guapinol Defenders And Honour Pledges Made To UN – Human Rights Experts
Monday, 22 November 2021, 6:46 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (19 November 2021) –UN human rights experts* today urged Honduras, elected to the Human Rights Council last month, to release eight environmental defenders in line with recommendations made by another UN body. “As a new member of the UN ... More >>
UN Experts Deplore Expulsion By Egypt Of Eritrean Family Seeking Asylum In Violation Of The Principle Of Non-refoulement
Saturday, 20 November 2021, 7:32 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (19 November 2021) – UN human rights experts expressed grave concerns about the forced return of seven Eritrean asylum seekers today, including five children, from Egypt, despite the risk of enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment, ... More >>
Greece: Guilty Verdict For Migrant Rights Defenders Could Mean More Deaths At Sea – UN Expert
Friday, 19 November 2021, 7:42 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (18 November 2021) – A UN human rights expert urged judicial authorities in Greece against criminalising the work of migrant rescuers in the Mediterranean Sea, saying a guilty verdict in a court case against two human rights defenders whose ... More >>
Iran: Repeal “Crippling” New Anti-abortion Law – UN Experts
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 7:20 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (16 November 2021) UN human rights experts* today called on Iran to repeal a wide-ranging new law that severely restricts access to abortion, contraception, voluntary sterilization services and related information, in direct violation of ... More >>
Lebanon: UN Poverty Expert Says Government Fails Population
Saturday, 13 November 2021, 6:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
BEIRUT (12 November 2021) – The Lebanese authorities’ destruction of the national currency, political deadlock, and reinforcement of long-standing inequalities have plunged the country into abject poverty, a UN human rights expert said today. “Lebanon ... More >>
Hungary: UN Expert To Visit To Assess Freedom Of Opinion And Expression
Friday, 12 November 2021, 6:19 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (11 November 2021) The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, Irene Khan, will visit Hungary from 15 to 22 November 2021. She will examine the enjoyment of the right to freedom of opinion and expression in Hungary, ... More >>
UN Experts Alarmed By Rise In Settler Violence In Occupied Palestinian Territory
Thursday, 11 November 2021, 5:17 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
UN human rights experts* have expressed alarm at the rising rate of violence directed by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory. “Settler violence has always been an extremely disturbing feature of the Israeli occupation,” ... More >>
UN Experts Alarmed By Rise In Settler Violence In Occupied Palestinian Territory
Thursday, 11 November 2021, 6:42 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (10 November 2021) – UN human rights experts* have expressed alarm at the rising rate of violence directed by Israeli settlers towards Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory. “Settler violence has always been an extremely ... More >>
Tunisia And Libya: UN Experts Condemn Collective Expulsion And Deplorable Living Conditions Of Migrants
Thursday, 11 November 2021, 6:22 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (10 November 2021) – UN human rights experts* today condemned Tunisia’s recent collective expulsion of migrants and asylum seekers, pointing to allegations that they were subjected to brutal racism and arbitrarily expelled to dangerous conditions ... More >>
UN Experts Say Israeli Settlement Expansion ‘Tramples’ On Human Rights Law
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 8:05 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (3 November 2021) – UN human rights experts* today sharply condemned the recent announcement by the Israeli Government that it is advancing plans to build thousands of new housing units in its West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements. “The ... More >>
Afghanistan: Human Rights Defenders Living Under “Climate Of Fear” – UN Expert
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 7:58 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (3 November 2021) – Human rights defenders in Afghanistan describe living under a climate of fear, threats, intense insecurity and growing desperation, a UN expert said today, calling for an urgent coordinated response from the international ... More >>
Sudan: UN Expert Deplores Deadly Military Response To Protests
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 6:50 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (2 November 2021) – A UN human rights expert today expressed alarm at the ongoing violent repression of peaceful demonstrations in Sudan, and the excessive use of force against those protesting the military coup d’état of 25 October. ... More >>
Kyrgyzstan: Investigate Death Threats Against Human Rights Defender – UN Expert
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 6:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (2 November 2021) – Kyrgyzstan must investigate death threats against human rights defender Kamilzhan Ruziev instead of harassing him for making complaints against the police, a UN human rights expert said today. “It is extremely disturbing that ... More >>
States Must Investigate And Prosecute Violence Against Journalists – UN Experts
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 6:37 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists 2 November 2021 GENEVA (2 November 2021) – On the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and ... More >>
Cambodia: Stop Using Courts To Persecute People Who Stand Up For Human Rights UN Experts
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 7:54 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (02 November 2021) – UN experts* today sharply criticized Cambodia for “weaponising” its court system to methodically reduce the scope for citizen action, and called on the country to protect freedom of expression after convictions of 15 ... More >>
Tax Air Travel And Sea Shipping To Help Climate-vulnerable Nations, UN Expert Tells COP-26 Leaders
Saturday, 30 October 2021, 6:20 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (29 October 2021) New taxes on air travel and maritime shipping could raise the billions of dollars needed to help the countries suffering most from climate change, a UN expert said today in a message directed at world leaders gathering ... More >>
Viet Nam: Release Writer Held On “Propaganda” Charges UN Experts
Saturday, 30 October 2021, 6:05 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (29 October 2021) – UN human rights experts* today called on Viet Nam to immediately and unconditionally release detained writer and woman human rights defender Ms Pham Doan Trang who faces “anti-State propaganda” charges and the possibility ... More >>
