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2030 Agenda will fail without full respect for the right to information

Sep 28, 2023 | Statements

GENEVA (27 September 2023) – Without universal and meaningful connectivity for all, the right to information is an empty promise for billions of people around the world, said Irene Khan, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression. Ahead of the...

WATCH: Interview as part of anti-hate speech campaign in Beirut

Aug 17, 2023 | Top-line

During Irene Khan’s visit to the Beirut Regional Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, she was interviewed by one of the office’s volunteers about her views on freedom of expression and hate...

Bosnia and Herzegovina: UN experts alarmed by re-criminalisation of defamation in the Republika Srpska entity

Aug 15, 2023 | Statements

25 July 2023 – UN human rights experts* expressed alarm about the recent adoption of amendments to the criminal code in the Republika Srpska entity that re-criminalise defamation and risk to adversely impact freedom of expression in Bosnia and Herzegovina and...

Afghanistan: UN experts alarmed by media outlet’s spreading of disinformation

Jul 28, 2023 | Statements

28 July 2023 – UN experts* today voiced their concern at disinformation by a media outlet concerning a Human Rights Council event about women’s and girls’ rights in Afghanistan in June. They issued the following statement: “We are dismayed that a media outlet named...

International community must act to end Israel’s annexation of occupied West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and defend international law: UN experts

Jul 26, 2023 | Statements

26 July 2023 – The international community must take steps to prevent Israel’s annexation of the occupied Palestinian territory or risk being seen as accepting the Israeli Government’s systematic violation of international law, UN experts said today. “Israel’s...
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