Feb 15, 2024 | Statements
GENEVA (14 February 2024) – UN experts* today condemned the lethal terrorist bombings against two political campaign offices in south-west Pakistan on 7 February – on the eve of national elections in the country. The Islamic State in the Levant (ISIL) claimed...
Feb 15, 2024 | Statements
GENEVA (14 February 2024) – UN experts today urged the Government of Viet Nam to stop targeting, convicting, and mistreating human rights defenders, after environmental human rights defender Dang Dinh Bách began his third hunger strike to protest against his detention...
Feb 14, 2024 | Statements
GENEVA (13 February 2024) – Undue restrictions imposed by States on peaceful protests and civil society working to protect human rights and advocating for respect of humanitarian law in the context of the war on Gaza, run contrary to States’ obligation under...
Feb 12, 2024 | News, Top-line
In an exclusive interview with Al-Jazeera, Irene Khan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, discusses the challenges and the future of the right to freedom of expression, and why what she does as part of her mandate matters. The...
Feb 10, 2024 | Statements, Top-line
GENEVA (2 February 2024) – About 25 million people including 14 million children are in dire need of humanitarian assistance in Sudan, since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, UN experts* said...
