GENEVA (10 August 2022) – UN human rights experts* today denounced a decision by Belarus to withdraw from an international agreement that implements the human right to a clean, healthy…Continue reading Belarus: UN experts denounce withdrawal from Aarhus Convention
GENEVA (8 August 2022) – UN human rights experts* today condemned the extensive, prolonged and repeated use of state of emergency measures since 2 April 2022 by Sri Lankan authorities to…Continue reading Sri Lanka: UN human rights experts condemn repeated use of emergency measures to crackdown on protests
GENEVA (29 July 2022) – The arbitrary shutdown of hundreds of civil society organisations in Nicaragua is deeply concerning and would have a chilling effect on activists and human rights…Continue reading Nicaragua: UN experts denounce arbitrary shutdown of civil society organisations
GENEVA (21 July 2022) – UN experts today called on authorities, candidates and political parties in Kenya to foster an enabling environment for peaceful elections and prevent election-related violence, as the…Continue reading Kenya: Civic space and respect of fundamental freedoms key to peaceful elections – UN experts
GENEVA (20 July 2022) – Independent Experts* today expressed alarm about record high inflation, rising commodity prices, power shortages, crippling fuel crisis and the economic collapse in Sri Lanka, as…Continue reading Sri Lanka: Economic crisis and repression of peaceful assembly alarming
GENEVA (13 July 2022) – UN human rights experts* today condemned the continued and heightened crackdown on civil society groups, human rights defenders and media outlets by Russian authorities, and…Continue reading Russia: UN experts condemn civil society shutdown
The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted four texts, including extending the mandate of the fact-finding mission on Libya, and appointed eight Special Procedure mandate holders before closing its fiftieth…Continue reading Human Rights Council extends FoAA mandate, reaffirms obligation of States to protect peaceful protest
Between 16 April 2021 to 15 April 2022, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Clément Voule, sent 181 communications individually or jointly with…Continue reading 181 Communications sent to Governments by UNSR Voule
GENEVA (29 June 2022) – UN human rights experts called for an urgent review of the legal proceedings brought against opposition politicians in Cambodia after at least 43 defendants were…Continue reading Cambodia: Opposition mass trials deeply flawed
GENEVA (24 June 2022) – UN human rights experts* have called on the international community to bring an end to the so-called “war on drugs” and promote drug policies that…Continue reading End ‘war on drugs’ and promote policies rooted in human rights
