Sep 2, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line
2 September 2024, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm over a surge in executions during the month of August 2024 and urged the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately stop the execution of people facing the death penalty. At least 93 individuals were executed...
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...
Feb 8, 2024 | Communications, Top-line
Five Special Rapporteurs and members of two UN Working Groups sent a joint communication to the Ansar Allah movement or Houthi movement, the de facto authority in Sana’a and large parts of northern Yemen. The communication addresses allegations of arbitrary...
Mar 6, 2023 | News, Statements, Top-line
GENEVA (6 March 2023) – UN experts* today expressed deep concern about ongoing allegations of repression, arbitrary killings, arrests, detention, and enforced disappearances of demonstrators in Peru and urged authorities to establish a genuine dialogue with the people...
Feb 2, 2023 | News, Top-line
GENEVA (2 February 2023) – UN human rights experts* today reiterated their call for effective investigations into the killing of Lebanese intellectual Lokman Slim, expressing their deep concern at the lack of progress by the authorities to ensure accountability two...
