Letters published on Tuesday, 19 October 2021, and available now on Special Procedures database . Background: On 14 October 2021, six UN independent experts sent a total of 44 letters to G7 and G20...

GENEVA (6 October 2021) – Belarus and Poland must work together to keep more migrants from dying on their border as victims of a political dispute, UN Special Rapporteurs* said today. “It is...

28 September 2021 Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: the Impact of State COVID-19 Recovery Measures Is Disproportionately and Negatively Affecting Indigenous Peoples The Human...

Every women and adolescent girl has the right to access contraception and family planning services, information and education, UN Experts say GENEVA (23 September 2021) – Under international human...

GENEVA (15 September 2021) - Women’s full and equal participation in public and political life in Afghanistan is essential to addressing the multiple crises confronting the country and must be seen as...

GENEVA (14 September 2021) – UN human rights experts* today denounced a recently enacted law that effectively bans abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy and includes an unprecedented provision...

Khmer version (PDF) GENEVA (2 September 2021) ̶ UN human rights experts* today called on Cambodia to release from detention a 17-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder who has been held in pre...

GENEVA (12 August 2021) – UN human rights experts* urged Ghana’s Government to reject a proposed ‘family values’ bill, saying it seeks to establish a system of State-sponsored discrimination and...

Español GENEVA (11 August 2021) – Many people around the world are being denied the right to development – both their countries’ economic improvement and their own personal development – because of...

GENEVA (11 August 2021) – A UN expert today expressed concern over arrests, harassment, criminalisation and threats against human rights defenders in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel, and...