Sep 4, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line
4 September 2024, GENEVA – A group of independent experts* expressed grave concern about allegations of serious human rights violations in the context of Venezuela’s 28 July presidential election. Several monitoring bodies, including electoral observers invited by the...
Apr 30, 2024 | News, Top-line
GENEVA (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...
Mar 19, 2024 | News, Top-line
GENEVA (19 March 2024) – UN experts* today urged authorities in Senegal to ensure that political parties, journalists and human rights defenders can exercise their rights to freedom of association, assembly and expression during the electoral period. The experts...
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...
Jan 24, 2024 | Statements, Top-line
GENEVA (24 January 2024) – UN experts* urged the Government of Bangladesh to carry out major human rights reforms to reverse repressive trends in the country and restore political dialogue and participation, as it enters its fourth consecutive term. “We are alarmed at...
