GENEVA (5 May 2021) – The adoption of new state laws in Florida and Oklahoma, among others, aimed at suppressing racial justice protests and the Black Lives Matter movement seems…Continue reading United States: UN expert decries new laws targeting peaceful and Black Lives Matter protesters
GENEVA (4 May 2021) – UN human rights experts* today expressed serious concern over the condition of imprisoned Iranian filmmaker and political activist Mohammad Nourizad and called for his immediate…Continue reading Iran: Grave concerns for jailed dissident Mohammad Nourizad
UNSR Voule and experts from around the world publish a new set of guidelines to help states ensure that electoral processes under the current Covid-19 threat respect and fulfil FoAA…Continue reading Guidelines on Covid-19 and elections
GENEVA (27 April 2021) – UN Human rights experts* expressed serious concern for the independence of Nepal’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) after the recent appointment of new members that…Continue reading Nepal: UN experts express concerns for independence and integrity of the NHRC
GENEVA (13 April 2021) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Government of Uganda to immediately stop the brutal crackdown on its political opponents which began in the…Continue reading Uganda: UN experts extremely concerned at serious rights violations linked to general elections
Khmer version GENEVA (12 April 2021) – UN human rights experts* expressed serious concern over a series of harsh new legal and administrative measures adopted by the Royal Government of…Continue reading UN experts urge Cambodia to review approach to COVID-19
GENEVA (1 April 2021) – UN human rights experts* today called on Belarus to end the continued pattern of excessive use of force, arrests, arbitrary detention and ill-treatment against protesters…Continue reading Belarus must end pattern of police brutality and impunity: UN experts
GENEVA (18 March 2021) – UN human rights experts* today deplored allegations of forced evictions, arbitrary detention and killings of pro-democracy protesters in Myanmar, saying States should consider applying the…Continue reading Myanmar: UN experts raise alarm over forced evictions, escalation of rights violations
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association upcoming report to be presented at the 76th session of the General Assembly. Deadline 30 May 2021…Continue reading Call for inputs upcoming thematic report on climate change
JOIN US FOR #IWD2021: Ensuring Women’s Right to Peaceful Assembly Wednesday, 3 March 2021 The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL), the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Human Rights Defenders, and…Continue reading IWD2021: Ensuring Women’s Right to Peaceful Assembly
