GENEVA (27 December 2019) – UN human rights experts* have condemned the death sentence handed down by a court in Pakistan to university lecturer Junaid Hafeez, who had been charged with blasphemy. The...

Summary The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst, on his visit to Colombia...

Summary The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Leilani Farha, submits the...

Summary The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst, visited Mongolia from 30 April to 13 May 2019. The main objective of the visit was to assess the situation of...

GENEVA (26 December 2019) – A UN human rights expert* expressed double shock at the death sentences handed down to five people in Saudi Arabia over the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi...

GENEVA (26 December 2019) - UN human rights experts* have expressed alarm at the situation of Mr. Tashpolat Tiyip, a Chinese academic of Uyghur origin and former president of Xinjiang University, who...