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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 >>
Russia Must Release Ill Lawyer Maria Bontsler, Detained In Retaliation For Human Rights Work: UN Special Rapporteur
Thursday, 10 July 2025, 8:06 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Bontsler was arrested on 29 May 2025 – two days before the Day of Russian Advocates on 31 May – and placed in pre-trial detention by the Leningradsky District Court of Kaliningrad. More >>
UN Experts Alarmed By Resumption Of US Deportations To Third Countries, Warn Authorities To Assess Risks Of Torture
Wednesday, 9 July 2025, 7:17 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The Trump administration’s deportation policy allows irregular migrants to be transferred to countries other than their own. More >>
UN Experts Urge Iran To Choose Protection Over Repression After Ceasefire
Saturday, 5 July 2025, 6:09 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The experts expressed alarm at official statements announcing expedited trials on accusations of espionage, putting individuals at heightened risk of summary execution or punishment without adequate due process. More >>
Forever-Occupation, Genocide, And Profit: Report Exposes Corporate Forces Behind Destruction Of Palestine
Friday, 4 July 2025, 9:28 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“These actors have entrenched and expanded Israel’s settler-colonial logic of displacement and replacement – and this is not accidental,” the Special Rapporteur said. “It is the function of an economy built to dominate, dispossess, and erase ... More >>
UN Experts Urge United Kingdom Not To Misuse Terrorism Laws Against Protest Group Palestine Action
Wednesday, 2 July 2025, 7:11 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Palestine Action positions itself as a national activist network that promotes civil disobedience and takes direct action against companies and institutions deemed by the group as being used by Israel to violently enforce apartheid, occupation, colonisation ... More >>
UN Experts Condemn United States Attack On Iran And Demand Permanent End To Hostilities
Saturday, 28 June 2025, 9:48 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“The attacks also seriously threatened human rights, including the rights to life, security of the person, health, a clean environment and self-determination of the people of Iran,” they said. More >>
