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One Year After ICJ Ruling, UN Experts Urge States To Confront Inaction Over Israel’s Unlawful Occupation
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 9:10 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The resolution set out clear responsibilities for third States and international organisations, including the UN system, in relation to Israel’s unlawful occupation. More >>
One Year After ICJ Ruling, UN Experts Urge States To Confront Inaction Over Israel’s Unlawful Occupation
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 9:10 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The resolution set out clear responsibilities for third States and international organisations, including the UN system, in relation to Israel’s unlawful occupation. More >>
Israel’s Financial Stranglehold On The Occupied Palestinian Territory Must End: UN Experts
Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 7:46 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts stressed that most commercial, agricultural and industrial assets have been damaged. Unemployment has surged to over 80 per cent. GDP has dramatically shrunk, and trade stalled. Poverty is endemic. Famine has been declared. More >>
States Must Prioritise Documentation In Transitional Justice Processes: UN Expert
Thursday, 11 September 2025, 8:04 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Special Rapporteur called on States, the international community, and donor institutions to ensure that documentation processes are integrated as a core element of transitional justice strategies, and that material and human resources are assigned to this task. More >>
UN Experts Urge US To Grant Visas To Palestinian Officials, Uphold Diplomacy For Peace
Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 8:03 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts urge the US to restore its commitment to diplomacy through the UN by granting visas to Palestinian officials, and not to restrict participation to those with whom it agrees. “Diplomacy offers the hope of peacefully settling even the ... More >>
UN Experts Stand In Solidarity With The Global Sumud Flotilla, Demand Full Protection Of All Passengers
Wednesday, 10 September 2025, 6:57 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
On 31 August, the Global Sumud Flotilla set sail from Barcelona with critical humanitarian supplies, including food, medicine and baby formula. A second wave of ships is scheduled to depart from Tunisia this week, joining vessels from Italy, Greece and elsewhere ... More >>
Gaza: UN Experts Urge General Assembly To Respond To Famine And Genocide
Saturday, 6 September 2025, 8:25 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“At this critical moment, the world needs the General Assembly — the highest body of the United Nations — to take decisive leadership and act to prevent further catastrophe,” they said. More >>
Saudi Arabia Must Halt Executions Of Persons Convicted For Offences Committed As Minors: UN Experts
Saturday, 6 September 2025, 8:23 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
They warned that the execution of persons convicted for offences committed when the offenders were minors is prohibited under international law and constitute an arbitrary deprivation of life. More >>
UN Experts Welcome Brazil’s Veto Of Environmental Licensing Bill Provisions
Friday, 5 September 2025, 7:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts urged the National Congress to uphold the presidential vetoes, and warned that reversing them would violate the Constitution, human rights, environmental protection, and Brazil’s international law obligations under multiple treaties and customary ... More >>
UN Experts Welcome Brazil’s Veto Of Environmental Licensing Bill Provisions
Friday, 5 September 2025, 7:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts urged the National Congress to uphold the presidential vetoes, and warned that reversing them would violate the Constitution, human rights, environmental protection, and Brazil’s international law obligations under multiple treaties and customary ... More >>
States Must Stop Israel Before All Journalists In Gaza Are Silenced: UN Experts
Friday, 5 September 2025, 7:28 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts demand independent criminal investigations into the killings and attacks on journalists in Gaza and across the Palestinian territory and full reparation and justice for their families and an end to the unprecedented impunity enjoyed by Israel. More >>
United States: UN Experts Alarmed By Detention And Imminent Deportation Of Four Venezuelans At Risk
Saturday, 30 August 2025, 6:47 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The US Government claims, without evidence, that the four Venezuelans are affiliated with the criminal organisation Tren de Aragua, which has been wrongfully designated by the United States as a terrorist organisation. More >>
UN Experts Sound Alarm On Looming Deportations Of Afghans From Pakistan
Saturday, 30 August 2025, 6:42 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts acknowledged the long-term hosting of large numbers of Afghan refugees by Pakistan and urged the international community to increase its support to the Government of Pakistan as well as host communities. More >>
UN Experts Alarmed By Reports Of Enforced Disappearances At Gaza Humanitarian Foundation Aid Distribution Sites
Friday, 29 August 2025, 6:20 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts received reports that a number of individuals including one child, who visited aid distribution sites in Rafah and have been forcibly disappeared. Aerial bombardment and daily gunfire at and around the crowded facilities have resulted ... More >>
Viet Nam: UN Experts Alarmed By Ongoing Repression Of Khmer Krom Indigenous Peoples And Theravada Buddhist Monks
Tuesday, 26 August 2025, 9:00 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Khmer Krom, an Indigenous group residing in the Mekong Delta, have long reported discrimination, restrictions on their religious practices, and limitations on the exercise of cultural and linguistic rights. More >>
Syria: UN Experts Alarmed By Attacks On Druze Communities, Including Sexual Violence Against Women And Girls
Friday, 22 August 2025, 10:14 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts noted that intense sectarian clashes triggered by looting and retaliations between Bedouin and Druze communities escalated into widespread violence involving local militias, Syrian interim authorities’ forces and affiliated armed groups. More >>
Afghanistan: International Community Must Reject Taliban’s Violent And Authoritarian Rule, Say UN Experts
Friday, 15 August 2025, 8:59 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Taliban has continued to impose so-called laws, edicts, and decrees while maintaining previous draconian restrictions on women’s and girls’ rights to education, freedom of movement, work, health, freedoms of expression and of association, and participation ... More >>
Gaza: UN Experts Appalled By Murder Of Al Jazeera Correspondents In Israeli Strike
Wednesday, 13 August 2025, 6:51 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“The killing of four journalists just as Israel announces its plan to take over Gaza City is no coincidence, but a deliberate attempt to silence those who would have exposed the IDF’s atrocities to the world,” the experts said. More >>
UN Special Rapporteur: China Must Uphold The Rights Of Imprisoned Human Rights Defenders
Tuesday, 12 August 2025, 9:57 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Special Rapporteur wrote to the Chinese authorities in February 2025 requesting precise information on the health condition and treatment of Ding Jiaxi, Huang Qi, Huang Yunmin, Ilham Tohti, Qin Yongmin, Zhang Haitao and Zhao Haitong, including ... More >>
UN Expert Welcomes Revised EU Regulations Against Trade In Instruments Of Torture, Calls For A Global Treaty
Thursday, 7 August 2025, 8:51 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“I also welcome the addition of stronger exclusions of weapons used in riot control or self-protection”, the expert said. “Specific modes of dispersal of chemical irritants or impact projectiles and related ammunition such as aerial platforms or ... More >>
