GENEVA (2 February 2023) – UN human rights experts* today reiterated their call for effective investigations into the killing of Lebanese intellectual Lokman Slim, expressing their deep concern at the...

GENEVA (26 January 2023) – UN and African Union experts* today condemned the killing of human rights defender and lawyer Thulani Maseko in Eswatini as “abhorrent” and demanded an impartial...

GENEVA (16 December 2022) -- UN experts are deeply aggrieved about a public execution and that flogging has resumed in Afghanistan and call on the de facto authorities to halt immediately all forms of...

GENEVA (15 December 2022) – UN experts* warned that proposed legislation now before the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) fails to comply with the State’s...

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...

The public execution by the de facto authorities of a man in Afghanistan today is deeply disturbing. It is believed to be the first public execution since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, taking...

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”...

BUENOS AIRES/GENEVA (25 November 2022) – Argentina’s exemplary democratic and human rights achievements are in contrast to persistent – and mostly invisible – institutional violence resulting in...

GENEVA (11 November 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, will be in Argentina from 14 to 25 November 2022 on the first official...

NEW YORK (25 October 2022) – Over four decades, the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has played a key role in highlighting the scourge of...