GENEVA (16 February 2022) – UN human rights experts* today criticised an ongoing COVID-19 quarantine imposed on striking casino workers in Cambodia, saying authorities must not disguise a crackdown on...

GENEVA (10 February 2022) - UN human rights experts* have called on Canada to urgently repatriate from Syria a woman who has life threatening illnesses, and who is being held at a camp under...

GENEVA (3 February 2022) - UN human rights experts have called on Tunisia to urgently repatriate six women and girls, aged between 3 and 22 years, who are being held in inhumane conditions at Al-Hol...

GENEVA (17 January 2022) - Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human rights...

GENEVA (10 January 2022) - On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, UN experts* condemned the facility as a site of “unparalleled...

UN human rights experts* today called on the international community to take urgent steps to clear the way for humanitarian aid in Afghanistan in order to prevent an impending humanitarian catastrophe...

Spain's Government must do more to protect children from domestic violence and sexual abuse, ensure its courts overcome biases against women, and apply a gender-sensitive, child-centered approach, UN...

UN human rights experts* hailed a landmark ruling in favour of a Salvadoran woman who died in custody after she was jailed following an obstetric emergency, saying the decision now consecrates...

UN human rights experts* today expressed grave concern about the widespread sexual and gender-based violence committed against women and girls in the Tigray, Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia by...

UN human rights experts* today called on Egypt to halt the misuse of counter-terrorism measures against civil society activists, lawyers, journalists and human rights defenders, and to immediately...