Oct 16, 2024 | News, Statements
16 October 2024, GENEVA – Independent human rights experts* said today they were deeply troubled by a Bangkok Criminal Court decision to extradite refugee and human rights defender Y Quynh Bdap to Viet Nam and urged that the case be reconsidered. “If extradited, Mr....
Oct 10, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line
10 October 2024, GENEVA – UN and African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights experts said today fears were growing that abducted human rights defenders Mamadou Billo Bah and Oumar Sylla were at risk of torture, ill-treatment and extrajudicial execution for...
Oct 7, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line
7 October 2024, GENEVA – Marking the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, the Israeli attack against the Palestinian population in Gaza that followed and consequent expansion of violence to the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory and other countries in the region,...
Sep 30, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line
30 September 2024, GENEVA – Three years on from Colombia’s deadly national strike, independent UN experts* say there remains an urgent need to establish truth, justice and accountability for killings and other human rights violations resulting from excessive police...
Sep 30, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line
30 September 2024, GENEVA – The Algerian Appeals Court must overturn Hirak poet Djamila Bentouis’ prison sentence and clear her of all charges, UN experts* said today. “We are outraged by the government’s practice, which aims to silence a political protest movement by...
Sep 26, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line
26 September 2024, GENEVA – The Government of Georgia should repeal the overtly discriminatory legislation recently passed by Parliament, which violates the human rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly among others, UN experts* said today. On 17...