Brazil: UN experts call for peaceful elections
GENEVA (22 September 2022) – UN experts today urged authorities, candidates and political parties in Brazil to ensure upcoming general elections are peaceful and election-related violence is prevented. Threats, intimidation and…
Iran: Un experts demand accountability for death of Mahsa Amini, call for end to violence against women
GENEVA (22 September 2022) – UN experts* today strongly condemned the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after her arrest for allegedly failing to comply with Iran’s…
States must protect peaceful assembly during emergency situations
GENEVA (15 September 2022) – States have an obligation to respect and protect peaceful assemblies during crisis and emergency situations, UN and regional human rights experts urged in a joint…
Tunisia: Judges’ right to association and protest must be respected
GENEVA (14 September 2022) –Diego García-Sayán, the Special Rapporteur on Independence of Judges and Lawyers, and Clément Nyaletossi Voule, Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and…
Afghanistan: UN human rights experts warn of bleak future without massive turnaround
GENEVA (12 August 2022) – UN experts* today said the international community must dramatically step up efforts to urge de facto authorities to adhere to basic human rights principles, warning that…
Belarus: UN experts denounce withdrawal from Aarhus Convention
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…
Sri Lanka: UN human rights experts condemn repeated use of emergency measures to crackdown on protests
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…
Nicaragua: UN experts denounce arbitrary shutdown of civil society organisations
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…
Kenya: Civic space and respect of fundamental freedoms key to peaceful elections – UN experts
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…
Sri Lanka: Economic crisis and repression of peaceful assembly alarming
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…