Русский GENEVA (30 July 2020) – The death in prison of human rights defender Azimjan Askarov, who for 10 years had unsuccessfully challenged his life sentence, shows a cruel disregard for human rights...

Русский Kyrgyz Кыргыз тили (Word) Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Liz Throssell Location: Geneva Date: 28 July 2020 It is with great sadness that we learned that human...

GENEVA (24 July 2020) – UN experts* have called on the Nigerian authorities to immediately release prominent humanist and rights defender Mubarak Bala, detained without charge on accusations of...

Farsi Version (PDF) GENEVA (22 July 2020) – Iran must release human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, reportedly ill with coronavirus symptoms, and other arbitrarily detained individuals before it is...

Summary In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Anaïs Marin, focuses on the administration of justice, in particular juvenile justice, and the...

The report is the first submitted by the newly appointed mandate holder, Ms. Mary Lawlor. She outlines herein how she intends to approach and develop the subject of her mandate in the coming years. She presents her priorities and working methods and offers a brief overview of her activities in the first weeks since she took up her role. She describes the change in working methods for herself, and for human rights defenders more generally, in the immediate term brought about by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

русский GENEVA (1 July 2020) – UN experts today demanded that Belarus refrains from violence against peaceful protesters ahead of 9 August presidential elections. They urged the Government to abandon...

GENEVA (2 July 2020) A UN expert today expressed deep concern that 11 human rights defenders face charges of terrorism and up to 15 years in prison for their human rights work. The so-called Istanbul...

Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 55th session 8 August 2003 Afternoon The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights this afternoon heard a series of...