Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Marta Hurtado Location: Geneva Date: 30 April 2021 We are disturbed by the use of unnecessary and disproportionate force by police special...

Русский GENEVA (21 April 2021) – UN human rights experts* today expressed alarm at the deteriorating health situation of detained Russian Government critic Alexei Navalny, and called for his urgent...

GENEVA (20 April 2021) – UN human rights experts* expressed serious concerns about the treatment and welfare of Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African-American man who has been in jail for 40 years in...

Persian version (PDF) GENEVA (18 March 2021) — UN human rights experts* today demanded that Iranian authorities immediately release arbitrarily detained Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali who...

Syria: Bachelet calling for the creation of a separate independent body, to clarify the fate of missing people.

Khmer GENEVA (5 March 2021) – UN human rights experts today deplored the disproportionate prison terms handed to exiled senior leaders of the disbanded Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) and...

GENEVA (23 February 2021) – UN experts* said today the US Administration's review of how to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre should also address ongoing violations of human rights being...

GENEVA (10 February 2021) – A UN expert today said she feared three human rights defenders serving 10-year prison sentences in the United Arab Emirates are being mistreated in conditions that may...

中文 Korean 한국어 (Word) GENEVA (2 February 2021) – Seven years on from a landmark UN investigation into human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), there are reasonable grounds to...

العربية BEIRUT/GENEVA, 25 June 2020 – The Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen, today urged all parties to the conflict in Yemen to take further measures to fight the spread of...