Arabic | Chinese | Russian | Spanish GENEVA / WASHINGTON / VIENNA (19 March 2020) – In light of the growing disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the monitors for freedom of expression and...

Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (16 March 2020) – UN human rights experts* today urged States to avoid overreach of security measures in their response to the coronavirus outbreak...

​Thai version GENEVA / BANGKOK (12 March 2020) - A group of UN experts* have condemned the continued misuse of judicial processes by Thai poultry producer Thammakaset to harass and silence human...

GENEVA (11 March 2020) – A group of UN human rights experts* have once again voiced alarm at the targeting of journalists working for the BBC and other broadcasters, and their families by Iranian...

Twenty-five years after the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women, no country in the world is free from discrimination against women Women's and girls' activism and autonomous movements have been...

GENEVA (3 March 2020) - A group of UN human rights experts* expressed deep concern over reforms in Guatemala to the Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Act that present inconsistencies with...

​French GENEVA (20 February 2020) - UN experts* have strongly criticised the two and a half year jail sentences handed down against four Burundian journalists who sought to cover violent clashes...

GENEVA (18 February 2020) – Independent experts appointed by the Human Rights Council* have expressed grave concerns about the killing and displacement of civilians in northwest Myanmar during...

GENEVA / WASHINGTON D.C. (6 February 2020) – Human rights experts* have expressed their serious concern over the complaint filed by the Brazilian Public Prosecutor´s Office against Glenn Greenwald...

Commemorating 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, UN experts call for urgent action to combat antisemitism GENEVA (23 January 2020) – States must take urgent and effective steps to monitor...