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Geneva, 14 July, 2025.- UN experts* today expressed alarm at the situation of lawyers in Tunisia, noting a serious deterioration in the last year. “Targeting legal professionals solely for performing their role in the justice system or exercising their freedom of expression poses a direct threat to the integrity andContinuar Leyendo

Geneva/Port-Au-Prince, 11 July, 2025.- Escalating gang violence outside Port-au-Prince has claimed over 1,000 lives and forced hundreds of thousands to flee since October 2024, threatening to destabilise not only Haiti but also other countries in the Caribbean, a UN human rights report warned today. The report, by the United NationsContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 13 July, 2025.- UN human rights experts* today welcomed the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ historic Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights, and its detailed clarifications on “reinforced” human rights obligations to address climate change and protect life-supporting systems on earth. “We welcome the Court’s recognitionContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 11 July, 2025.- Human rights experts* today welcomed the announcement by the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue arrest warrants against two senior Taliban leaders – Haibatullah Akhundzada and Abdul Hakim Haqqani – due to their alleged responsibility for the crime against humanity of persecutionContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 10 July, 2025.- The Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council today strongly condemned the US Government’s sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, for allegedly assisting the International Criminal Court inContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 7 July, 2025.- The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) today issued its findings on Afghanistan, Botswana, Chad, Fiji, Ireland, Mexico, San Marino, Solomon Islands, Thailand, and Tuvalu, after reviewing these States parties. The findings contain positive aspects of each country’s implementation of the ConventionContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 06 July, 2025.- UN experts* today expressed alarm over the crackdown in the Islamic Republic of Iran since hostilities began on 13 June 2025 and the subsequent ceasefire. “Post-conflict situations must not be used as an opportunity to suppress dissent and increase repression,” the experts said. Acknowledging the impactContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 3 July, 2025.-Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is being sustained by a system of exploitative occupation and profit, a UN expert warned today in a new report to the Human Rights Council that reveals how corporate profiteering and monetary gain has enabled and legitimised Israel’s illegal presence and actions. “InContinuar Leyendo

Geneva, 1 July, 2025.- UN experts* today urged the United Kingdom not to ban the “direct action” group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation under the Terrorism Act 2000. “We are concerned at the unjustified labelling of a political protest movement as ‘terrorist’,” the experts said. “According to international standards,Continuar Leyendo

Geneva/ Bishkek, 30 June, 2025.- The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) is dismayed at Kyrgyzstan’s decision to abolish its independent torture prevention monitoring body, the National Centre for the Prevention of Torture (NCPT), without public consultation or transparency. The Kyrgyz Parliament has renewed its decision to abolish theContinuar Leyendo