Persian versison GENEVA (4 February 2021) – UN human rights experts today condemned the weekend hanging of Javid Dehghan, an Iranian from the Baloch minority. They fear a disturbing recent increase in...

GENEVA (4 February 2021) – A group of UN experts * welcomed the US decision to stop using privately run federal prisons and urged the Biden Administration to also end outsourcing of all detention...

4 February 2020 The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon closed its online limited eighty-sixth session, which started on 18 January. Luis Ernesto Pedernera Reyna, Chairperson of the...

GENEVA (3 February 2021) – Almost a third of people detained for security or terrorism-related offences in Afghanistan have been subjected to torture or other forms of ill-treatment, according to a UN...

We urge the authorities in Russia to immediately release all those detained for exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression yesterday and over the past few weeks of protests...

中文 Korean 한국어 (Word) GENEVA (2 February 2021) – Seven years on from a landmark UN investigation into human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), there are reasonable grounds to...

GENEVA (1 February 2021) – UN experts said today Sudan must urgently implement strong measures to ensure the safety of civilians, including the internally displaced, and thoroughly investigate and...

​ Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Marta Hurtado Location: Geneva Date: 2 February 2021 We are appalled by a significant increase in the number of attacks against the...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Marta Hurtado Location: Geneva Date: 2 February 2021 We welcome the decision on Friday by the Government of South Sudan to move forward with...

GENEVA (2 February 2021) – The UN Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity , Mr Obiora C. Okafor, made the following statement: "The recent decision of the Human Rights...