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UN experts alarmed by fresh crackdown on protests and rights violations: India
UN experts: Palestinian farmers face renewed threats as olive harvest is underway
UN expert calls for robust human rights-based oversight of technology companies operating in transitional justice settings
UN expert urges end to youth repression, demands binding power-sharing for Gen-Z activists
Women’s international solidarity vital for human rights, equality and peace, says UN expert
UN experts: Many forms of dispossession driving the record concentration of ownership to land & water worldwide
UN expert welcomes achievements in confronting legacy of unlawful killings, calls for justice and reparations for victims: The Gambia
UN expert: Use of starvation as a weapon of war creates unprecedented moral challenge
UN Human Rights Committee to review Austria, Rwanda, Cameroon and Jamaica
UN experts welcome landmark corporate accountability decision, call for victim-centred reparations: Colombia
UN experts alarmed by crackdown on LGBTI human rights defenders and civil society organisations: Türkiye
UN experts call on FAO to uphold human rights and protect staff
UN expert calls for shift from commitments to real protection for children
Türk appalled by attacks on airports Saudi Arabia, calls on all parties to spare civilians
Cultural rights can come alive in Zimbabwe with meaningful participation, says UN expert
Concerns over mass detentions before and during protests: India
Lived realities of racialised groups are the true test of Canada’s anti-racism efforts, says UN expert
US sanctions against ICC threaten system of international accountability, warn UN experts: “An assault on the administration of justice”
New US sanctions against International Criminal Court unacceptable – Türk
Housing construction must serve the needs of hard-working people first, says UN expert: Ghana
UN experts urge immediate halt to executions as country drives global surge: Iran
detentions of Syrians by Israeli forces amid ongoing Israeli incursions: Syria
Comment by UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on deadly strikes in Ukraine
UN expert calls for end to violence against older women, warns age must never diminish protection of women’s rights
UN expert warns of escalation of attacks against legal profession in Nicaragua after 2000 lawyers were struck off Supreme Court register
UN experts say truth, remedy and accountability must remain centred on Inuit women’s rights: Greenlandic forced contraception case
UN expert concerned about legal proceedings and threats against Dora Moutot: France
UN expert on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to visit The Gambia
Checkpoints in the occupied West Bank choking Palestinian life, warns UN expert
Mozambique needs integrated human rights vision for climate resilience and international cooperation to avoid fossil fuel lock-in, says UN expert
IACHR and GHREN stress that human rights are the foundation of democracy, and democracy is the essential condition for free and fair elections: Nicaragua
UN Child Rights Committee publishes findings on Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Uganda and Tanzania
UN expert urges Malaysian Government to stop repatriation of Myanmar nationals, deplores Myanmar military’s latest airstrikes targeting civilians
Women searchers for disappeared persons face brutal violence while world endeavours to recognise them, warn UN experts: Mexico
UN experts call for immediate release of lawyers Mazari-Hazir and Chattha: Pakistan
UN experts warn of racialised treatment in migration
Türk deplores deadly strikes at busy Rakhine market: Myanmar
Colombia – Türk welcomes landmark restorative justice steps involving former FARC leaders and army officers
Colombia landmark restorative justice steps
Human Rights Experts: US migration externalization scheme mires over 35 other states, triggering cascade of human rights violations including torture
UN experts call for stronger protection for child victims of sexual violence and protective parents: France
Türk alarmed by civilian impact of hostilities, urges de-escalation: Ethiopia
UN Human Rights updates list of companies involved in Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory
UN Special Rapporteur on cultural rights to visit Zimbabwe
A century after the Slavery Convention, millions still await freedom
UN Special Rapporteur on racism to visit Canada
Special Rapporteur on the right to housing to visit Ghana
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances concludes its 140th session

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