GENEVA (7 March 2024) – States should uphold their human rights obligations and facilitate, not suppress, peaceful protests, a UN expert said today as he presented a set of new…Continue reading UNSR Clément Voule launches new tools for law enforcement to foster peaceful protest
GENEVA (19 September 2023) – Iran has escalated its crackdown on dissent to prevent public commemoration of Jina Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody last year, UN experts* warned today,…Continue reading Iran: UN experts denounce crackdown on public commemoration of Jina Mahsa Amini’s death
GENEVA (11 November 2022) — UN experts* today urged Iranian authorities to stop indicting people with charges punishable by death for participation, or alleged participation, in peaceful demonstrations. Eight people…Continue reading Iran: Stop sentencing peaceful protesters to death
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
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
