GENEVA (25 July 2022) – UN experts* today expressed frustration and grave concern following confirmation of the death of Australian teenager Yusuf Zahab in a North-East Syrian detention facility. The...

GENEVA (15 July 2022) – The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Javaid Rehman today hailed the conviction of an Iranian official by a Swedish court for...

GENEVA (8 July 2022) – UN human rights experts* today deplored the execution of Kalwant Singh a/l Jogindar Singh, a Malaysian national convicted of drug offences in Singapore. Singh’s death sentence...

GENEVA (22 June 2022) – The capacity of States to investigate all potentially unlawful deaths, as required under international law, is too often hindered, Morris Tidball-Binz, the UN Special...

GENEVA (20 June 2022) – UN human rights experts* today commended an announcement made by the Malaysian government that it will abolish the country’s mandatory death penalty and encouraged Parliament...

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions focuses on forensic medicine and examines the challenges facing medico-legal death investigation systems and contemporary forensic professionals, in particular forensic doctors and ancillary specialists, in the investigation of potentially unlawful deaths. The Special Rapporteur draws on the experience of forensic doctors and professionals from all regions of the world who shared their views to help him to achieve a global understanding of the current status of national medico-legal death investigation systems.

GENEVA (10 June 2022) – The Myanmar junta’s announced decision to enforce death sentences against four individuals, including two prominent activists, marks the start of what could be a spate of death...

GENEVA (20 May 2022) – A group of UN human rights experts* has urged States to ensure that ongoing multilateral negotiations on a new international instrument on pandemic preparedness and recovery is...

We are deeply concerned about the likely human rights impact of the first officially reported outbreak of COVID-19 in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), and the subsequent lockdown...

GENEVA (16 May 2022) – A UN human rights expert today called on the international community to step up its support for Ukraine’s own investigations into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity...