UN human rights experts

Protests in Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong at the start of 2020.
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Hong Kong: Arrests under Security Law, a serious concern

12 October 2021
Human Rights

The arrest of Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and woman human rights defender Chow Hang-Tung, on charges of “incitement to subversion” and being a foreign agent, is a source of “deep concern” four UN independent human rights experts said on Tuesday.

Shopkeepers have shuttered their stores in old Delhi, India following the government's announcement of a nationwide lockdown for 21 days to stem the spread of COVID-19.
Sandeep Datta

News in Brief 28 September 2020

28 September 2020
News in Brief
  • Delhi track dwellers must not be evicted, warn rights experts
  • Rapporteurs' investigations hit by UN cash crunch
  • Largest prisoner release agreed in Yemen talks
  • Nigeria urged to overturn death penalty for 'blasphemous' singer
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Neighbourhoods facing the port of Beirut were extensively damaged by the explosion.
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News in Brief 7 August 2020

7 August 2020
News in Brief
  • 'Immediate and huge' needs facing Beirut and Lebanon
  • Mauritania shipwreck, another preventable tragedy
  • Lift sanctions 'bringing suffering and death'
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David Kaye (left) and Agnes Callamard are among the experts who issued the statement. Respectively, they are the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression, and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions (file photo)..
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Independent UN rights experts call for ‘immediate investigation’ into alleged Bezos phone hack by Saudi Arabia

22 January 2020
Human Rights

Independent UN rights experts said on Wednesday they were “gravely concerned” over allegations that in 2018, a messaging app account belonging to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was used to hack into The Washington Post owner’s mobile phone, calling for an “immediate investigation” by authorities in the United States.

A girl wearing her hijab in Iran runs past a mural stating, in Persian, “God loves children who say their ‘namaz’ [prayers].” (File)
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‘Quash’ convictions and release women jailed for protesting against wearing veils in Iran, urge UN rights experts

16 August 2019
Human Rights

Decades-long prison sentences handed down to three women protesting the strictly enforced wearing of veils in Iran, have drawn alarm and condemnation from six United Nations independent human rights experts.

Jospin (centre), an intenally displaced child, sits in a class at the MINUSCA site in Central African Republic. As of October 2017, violent clashes and inter-communal tensions fuelled by armed groups have continuously increased in the Central African Republic (CAR). (file)
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News in Brief 14 January 2019

14 January 2019
News in Brief
  • Challenges still abound, 30th years on from landmark child rights treaty
  • The disaster that rocked Haiti nine years ago
  • UN experts plead for life of mentally-ill former police officer
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