OHCHR

GENEVA January 25, 2019 – The UN human rights expert Agnès Callamard is to head an international inquiry into the killing of Saudi journalist Mr. Jamal Khashoggi, starting with a visit to Turkey from 28 January to 3 February 2019. This inquiry, established under the authority of the mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on […]

GENEVA January 22, 2019 – As global leaders meet in Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF), United Nations experts stressed the critical importance of human rights to the Forum’s central theme of “Globalization 4.0: Shaping  a New Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. “Business and political leaders at Davos must ensure […]

GENEVA, Jan. 8, 2018 – A United Nations expert has called on the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to restore internet services in the country. General elections were held on 30 December and the next day all primary telecommunications were shut down ahead of the announcement of the results. “A general network shutdown […]

GENEVA/TRIPOLI, Dec. 20, 2018 – Migrants and refugees are being subjected to “unimaginable horrors” from the moment they enter Libya, throughout their stay in the country and – if they make it that far — during their subsequent attempts to cross the Mediterranean sea, according to a UN report released on Thursday. The 61-page report, […]

GENEVA December 11, 2018 – A UN human rights expert has expressed her dismay at the imprisonment of three ethnic Kachin activists for allegedly criticizing the Myanmar military during peaceful demonstrations in April. “It is wholly unacceptable that Lum Zawng, Nang Pu and Zau Jet have been sent to jail merely for making statements about […]

GENEVA October 29, 2018 – UN human rights experts* are urging Saudi Arabia to immediately halt the execution of six individuals sentenced to death for alleged crimes committed when they were under the age of 18. Mr. Ali al-Nimr, Mr. Dawood al-Marhoon, Mr. Abdullah al-Zaher, Mr. Mujtaba al-Sweikat, Mr. Salman Qureish and Mr. Abdulkarim al-Hawaj […]

NEW YORK, October 24, 2018 – A UN expert on North Korea said there had not been any substantial improvement in human rights in the country even as détente takes hold on the peninsula, imploring the world to learn from past experience that it is essential to put human rights at the centre of any […]

GENEVA, Oct. 22, 2018 – A Guatemalan court’s ruling that indigenous Ixil Mayans were victims of genocide and crimes against humanity sets a historic precedent for transitional justice in Guatemala, the region and the world, UN experts said today. “The court’s decision confirms that the suffering and humiliation suffered by the Ixil peoples at the […]

NEW YORK, October 19, 2018 –  Widespread privatization of public goods in many societies is systematically eliminating human rights protections and further marginalizing those living in poverty, according to a new report. Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, criticized the extent to which the World Bank, the International Monetary […]

NEW YORK, October 18, 2018 –  Ignoring almost 900 million people living in overcrowded informal settlements is a global human rights scandal that governments must resolve, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing said today. “The living conditions in informal settlements are one of the most pervasive violations of human rights globally and […]