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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 >>
UN Experts Call For Immediate Dismantling Of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation
Thursday, 7 August 2025, 8:27 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
This tragic development comes amid the forced displacement of over 90 per cent of the population and a staggering death toll is now more than 60,000 people in Gaza. Only in the last few weeks, the Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported 180 deaths ... More >>
Starving Civilians In Gaza Is Lethal, Inhumane And Degrading, And It Must End: Special Rapporteur On Torture
Thursday, 31 July 2025, 8:54 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Special Rapporteur stressed that parties to this conflict have obligations to provide adequate food & water to those in their custody or control, permit access to, or provide, humanitarian assistance to besieged populations, and must not steal, ... More >>
UN Expert Appalled By US Withdrawal Of Sanctions Against Companies Providing Weapons To Myanmar Junta
Thursday, 31 July 2025, 8:37 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Special Rapporteur Andrews noted that companies removed from U.S. sanctions lists have all been implicated in the arms trade, including brokering the junta’s acquisition of weapons and raw materials and supplies needed to produce weapons, ammunition, ... More >>
“Thirst As A Weapon”: UN Experts Condemn Israel’s Deliberate Dehydration And Starvation Of The Palestinian People
Wednesday, 30 July 2025, 7:41 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
GENEVA (29 July 2025) – UN experts* today expressed alarm at Israel’s deliberate withholding of access to safe drinking water from Palestinians in Gaza, calling it a serious violation of international law and a crime against humanity. “Israel ... More >>
UN Experts Urge Brazil To Halt Serious Regression On Environmental Licensing
Sunday, 27 July 2025, 12:11 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
As a global climate leader, Brazil must ensure that its domestic legislation is aligned with its international commitments, including under the Paris Agreement More >>
UN Experts Call For End To Israeli State And Settler Violence In The West Bank
Friday, 25 July 2025, 7:16 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
"We are deeply troubled by alleged widespread intimidation, violence, land dispossession, destruction of livelihoods and the resulting forcible displacement of communities, and we fear this is severing Palestinians from their land and undermining their food ... More >>
Pakistan: Widespread Impunity For Violence And Discrimination Against Minorities Must End, Warn UN Experts
Friday, 25 July 2025, 7:12 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“We are shocked at reports of increasing violence against vulnerable communities on grounds of their religion or belief,” the experts said. More >>
Syria: UN Experts Alarmed By Targeted Abductions And Disappearances Of Alawite Women And Girls
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 6:58 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“The pattern of violations described – involving gender-based violence, threats, forced marriage of minors, and a glaring lack of effective response by Syrian interim Government – suggests a targeted campaign against Alawite women and girls based ... More >>
UN Experts Urge Taliban To Release Older British Couple Held In Underground Cells, As Their Health Deteriorates
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 5:42 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Our first demand is their immediate transfer to a civilian hospital for medical treatment,” they said. More >>
UN Experts Appalled By Mass Forced Returns Of Afghan Nationals
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 3:11 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Returns must be halted immediately,” the experts said. “Afghanistan is not a safe country for returnees, given the constantly deteriorating human rights situation since the Taliban seized control, nearly four years ago.” More >>
UN Experts Call For End To Anguish Of Families Seeking Truth About Disappeared Loved Ones In The OPT And Israel
Sunday, 20 July 2025, 3:06 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Enforced disappearances can never be justified, even during a state of war, instability or public emergency,” the experts said. More >>
Peru: Bill Establishing Amnesty For Atrocity Crimes Violates International Standards, Say UN Experts
Saturday, 19 July 2025, 8:20 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Peru has a duty to investigate, prosecute and punish gross human rights violations and crimes under international law committed during the conflict,” the experts said. “International standards prohibit amnesties or pardons for such grave crimes.” More >>
Belarus: UN Experts Call For Investigations Into Deaths In Custody
Saturday, 19 July 2025, 8:13 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Over the past four years, several individuals identified by human rights defenders as political prisoners have died in custody or shortly after being released,” the experts said. More >>
“Silence Is Not An Option”: UN Special Procedures’ Coordination Committee Condemns US Sanctions On Francesca Albanese
Friday, 11 July 2025, 7:40 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Despite such attempts to intimidate UN Special Procedures mandate holders, we will continue to act independently and with integrity to discharge our mandates given by the Human Rights Council to uphold international human rights standards,” the ... More >>
