UN experts urge renewed commitment to combat antisemitism, including Holocaust distortion and denial GENEVA (27 January 2021) – UN experts* said today States must take resolute action against rising...

GENEVA (25 January 2021) – UN human rights experts today urged the Sri Lankan Government to end its policy of forced cremation of the COVID-19 deceased, saying it ran contrary to the beliefs of...

GENEVA (18 January 2021) – UN human rights experts today released a statement condemning the violent events at the US Capitol in Washington. It reads as follows: “We, the undersigned independent...

GENEVA (17 November 2020) – The scourge of hate speech in social media targeting minorities, which has contributed to discrimination, hostility and violence around the world, will be the focus of the...

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...

International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, 22 August 2020 GENEVA (21 August 2020) – UN human rights experts* today expressed alarm at a sharp rise...

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes, provides a summary of his activities since his previous report to the General Assembly and highlights continuing work on the thematic priorities of statelessness, education and minority languages, hate speech targeting minorities in social media, as well as initiatives on a regional approach to minority issues.

GENEVA (9 July 2020) – UN human rights experts today urged governments to honour victims of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide by building peaceful, inclusive and just societies to prevent a repetition of...

GENEVA (03 July 2020) – UN human rights experts today expressed outrage at reports of Iran's secret execution of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a member of the Kurdish minority in the country. The execution...

GENEVA (29 June 2020) – UN human rights experts* welcomed today the disclosure by the Pakistani Government of the whereabouts of Idris Khattak, a leading human rights defender who went missing last...