Electoral year 2024: UN experts call for strengthening democracy and reversing global erosion of human rights

30 April 2024 – UN experts urged today authorities in dozens of countries holding elections this year to uphold and protect the rights to vote and to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association. They said these rights are threatened by democratic regression, the rise of authoritarianism worldwide and shrinking civic spaces.

Amid campus crackdowns, Gaza war triggers freedom of expression crisis

25 April 2024 – Across the United States, “heads are rolling” at the top of some Ivy League universities amid a campus-wide crackdown on students protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, shining a spotlight on the question of freedom of expression worldwide, said UN Special Rapporteur Irene Khan.

Iran: UN experts alarmed by death sentence imposed on rapper and songwriter, Toomaj Salehi

25 April 2024 – UN experts today demanded the immediate release of rapper and songwriter Toomaj Salehi and urged Iranian authorities to reverse the decision to sentence him to death.

Report on Journalists in Exile

Report on Journalists in Exile

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 ...
Democracy is in distress

Democracy is in distress

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 ...