GENEVA (30 May 2014) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts* today emphasized that the UN Security Council’s decision not to refer the situation in Syria to the International...

BANJUL / GENEVA (15 May 2014) – A group of African and UN human rights experts* today called on the Egyptian authorities to bring its legal system into compliance with international and regional...

A Joint Statement by UN human rights experts, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders in Africa of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’...

GENEVA (9 May 2014) – Two United Nations independent experts on Friday expressed serious concern over the charges brought against three human rights defenders in the aftermath of the 2013 presidential...

GENEVA (7 April 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, today pressed the alarm bell on the further deterioration of the human...

جينيف (31 آذار/مارس 2014)- حثت مجموعة تضم ثمانية من خبراء الأمم المتحدة لحقوق الإنسان السلطات المصرية اليوم على نقض أحكام الإعدام التي صدرت في مصر الأسبوع الماضي بحق 529 شخصا، وطالب الخبراء السلطات...

GENEVA (28 March 2014) – A group of United Nations independent experts expressed serious concern over the Government’s measures, taken in the context of forthcoming elections, to prevent access to...

GENEVA (18 March 2014) – A group of UN experts today expressed their dismay concerning the death of Cao Shunli in hospital on 14 March, and extended their sincere condolences to her family and friends...

GENEVA (11 March 2014) – A group of United Nations independent experts* today called on the Government of Thailand to establish the truth and hold criminally responsible the perpetrators of the...