GENEVA (22 September 2023) – A UN expert today pointed to a pattern of serious human rights violations targeting human rights defenders in Lao PDR, including summary executions and enforced...

MORNING 19 September 2023 The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and started an interactive dialogue with...

GENEVA (19 September 2023) – New technologies have an ambivalent relationship with enforced disappearance, UN experts said today. “On the one hand, new technologies are frequently used to perpetrate...

GENEVA (18 September 2023) – The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances will hold its 131 st session from 18 to 27 September 2023 to examine more than 3000 cases from 36 countries...

GENEVA (15 September 2023) – UN experts* today warned against the forcible repatriation of Mr. Ravil Mingazov from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the Russian Federation, calling for an immediate...

GENEVA (14 September 2023) – UN experts* today welcomed the decision by a court in Switzerland to put a former member of a Belarusian paramilitary unit on trial for his alleged involvement in the...

In the present report, the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances examines how new technologies are being used against relatives of disappeared persons, their representatives and human rights defenders; can be effectively applied to facilitate the search for disappeared persons; and can be used to obtain and secure evidence of the commission of enforced disappearance.

GENEVA (30 August 2023) – Women human rights defenders searching for forcibly disappeared loved ones in Mexico are facing intimidation, attacks and even violent death, UN experts warned today. “We are...

GENEVA (29 August 2023) –UN* and regional** human rights experts urged all States to provide effective access to justice for victims of enforced disappearance, that include any individual who has...

GENEVA (17 August 2023) – UN experts* today expressed alarm at reports of brutal and widespread use of rape and other forms of sexual violence by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during the four-month...