GENEVA (11 January 2024) – UN human rights experts* today welcomed the start of hearings before the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) of a case brought by South Africa ...
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Irene Khan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, said:
"What the Israeli forces are doing is ...
Background
Building on her previous report on media freedom and journalists (A/HRC/50/29), the Special Rapporteur intends to draw attention to this specific ...
International Human Solidarity Day
GENEVA (19 December 2023) UN experts today emphasised the need for the international community to support civil society groups ...
International Human Rights Day, marking the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, comes at a dark moment. People, the planet, and ...
GENEVA (8 December 2023) – Member States of the United Nations must use all measures at their disposal and their influence to promote an immediate and permanent ...
“First, I am attacked for being a journalist. Second, I am attacked for being a woman.”
That is how Maria Ressa, the 2021 Nobel Peace laureate, described the orchestrated ...
The international community must redouble its efforts to ensure the full protection of women and girls in times of armed conflict, UN experts* said.
UN experts* expressed alarm at the worldwide wave of attacks, reprisals, criminalisation and sanctions against those who publicly express solidarity with the victims of the ...