Dec 23, 2024 | News, Reports, Top-line
23 December 2024, GENEVA – Independent human rights experts* today expressed serious concern at what appears to be an increase in systematic targeting of women belonging to the Baha’i religious minority throughout the country. The experts said that Baha’i women...
Dec 13, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line
13 December 2024, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed concern about a new law in Iran that imposes a series of new penalties on women and girls who fail to wear a hijab. They called on the Government of Iran to immediately repeal it. “The new hijab law marks an...
Aug 30, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line
30 August 2024, GENEVA – UN human rights experts* voiced profound concern today over the Taliban’s recent enactment of the “Law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” signalling further serious regression in human rights in Afghanistan...
