GENEVA (6 March 2023) – UN experts* today expressed deep concern about ongoing allegations of repression, arbitrary killings, arrests, detention, and enforced disappearances of demonstrators in Peru...

GENEVA (16 February 2023) – UN human rights experts* today expressed grave concern about reports that at least 10 boys, some as young as 12 years old were allegedly taken away from Camp Roj during the...

GENEVA (13 December 2022) – The Government of Lao must intensify efforts to investigate the enforced disappearance of Mr. Sombath Somphone, a development worker and human rights defender, whose fate...

GENEVA (8 December 2022) – UN experts today condemned today’s execution of a 23-year-old demonstrator convicted in the context of nation-wide protests and raised the alarm about Iranian artists...

GENEVA (2 December 2022) – UN human rights experts* today expressed alarm over the deteriorating health situation of jailed human rights defender Arash Sadeghi and called for his immediate release...

GENEVA (1 December 2022) – UN experts* said today they were concerned a 57- year-old Jordanian citizen may soon be executed for drug offences that do not meet the threshold for “most serious crimes”...

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 2022 GENEVA (24 November 2022) –Increased and relentless attacks on the bodily autonomy of women and girls on the basis of...

GENEVA (11 November 2022) – UN experts* today joined the growing chorus of human rights voices expressing fears for the life of Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abdel Fattah and demanding his...

GENEVA (26 October 2022) -- UN human rights experts* condemned the killings and the crackdown by security forces in Iran on protesters following the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, including alleged...

GENEVA (25 October 2022) – UN human rights experts* today demanded effective accountability for the year-long brutal crackdown on peaceful protests against the October 2021 military coup in Sudan. To...