Farsi (PDF) GENEVA (25 September 2020) – UN independent experts expressed alarm at human rights lawyer and woman human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh’s return to Evin Prison in Iran this week despite...

Address by Ms. Nada Al-Nashif United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations Geneva, 23 September 2019 Madame President, Members of the Human Rights Council...

23 September 2020 Concludes Dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic ; Continues Dialogue with the Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela The Human...

GENEVA (16 September 2020) – UN experts* today called on Iran to temporarily release human rights defenders from prison to protect them from the spread of COVID-19 in prisons. “Iranian human rights...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 11 September 2020 Since 31 July, when prominent trade unionist Rong Chhun was arrested at his home...

GENEVA (4 September 2020) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Pakistani authorities to end the secret detention of human rights defender Idris Khattak, who has not been heard from in more...

GENEVA (2 September 2020) – The death of Turkish human rights lawyer Ebru Timtik after a long hunger strike was entirely preventable, UN human rights experts* said today, calling on Turkey to release...