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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 >>
India Must Halt Arbitrary Demolitions Targeting Minorities And Marginalised Communities: UN Experts
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 5:06 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
Despite the Indian Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind vs. Union of India and Others, which explicitly established procedural safeguards against arbitrary demolitions, these practices persist. More >>
UN Experts Condemn Israeli Attack On Iran And Urge End To Hostilities
Sunday, 22 June 2025, 4:28 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Israel’s attack and Iran’s response – with successive waves of attacks against each other's territory – have resulted in many civilian casualties, confirming our grave concerns about this destructive cycle of violence,” the experts said. More >>
Political Interference In US Education Undermines Academic Freedom And Equitable Access To Education: UN Expert
Friday, 20 June 2025, 9:56 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
The expert warned against the authoritarian encroachment on universities, where state power is increasingly used to penalise dissent, shape curricula and restrict open inquiry. More >>
Repeal Of UK Vagrancy Act Marks Major Step Toward Ending Criminalisation Of Homelessness And Poverty: UN Experts
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 3:21 pm | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
“Nobody should be penalised for not having access to a home. Punishing a person for having no home or shelter is also cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, prohibited under Article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,” ... More >>
Taliban Weaponising Justice Sector To Entrench Gender Persecution In Afghanistan: UN Expert
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 10:39 am | UN Special Procedures - Human Rights
While all Afghan women and girls suffer under Taliban policies, the Special Rapporteur stressed that the situation is exacerbated for women and girls in remote and rural parts of the country, or with intersecting identities, particularly those from minority ... More >>
