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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 >>
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 >>
