GENEVA (27 August 2015) – “The frequency of attacks and violence committed against journalists and media workers in South Sudan is increasing, and has reached a critical level,” two United Nations...

GENEVA (20 August 2015) – A group of United Nations human rights experts* today condemned the recent prison sentencing of prominent Azerbaijani human rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus as...

GENEVA (14 August 2015) – United Nations human rights experts today urged the Iranian Government to immediately release the Washington Post ’s correspondent in Tehran, Jason Rezaian, who now awaits...

GENEVA (10 August 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedoms of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, today called upon the Mauritanian Parliament to reject...

GENEVA (7 August 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteurs on freedom of expression, David Kaye, and on extrajudicial executions, Christof Heyns, have condemned today’s killing in Bangladesh of...