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States must end impunity to break cycle of violence against defenders - UN expert 10/16/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Human rights defenders
 E F S R C A
International Day of the Girl Child,11 October 2019
Agents for change: Girls take up the fight for a better world 		10/10/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
  • Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
  • Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  • Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the sale of children
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
  • Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
  • Women
  • Violence against women
  • Cultural rights
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Health
  • Human rights defenders
  • Migration and Human Rights
  • Minorities
  • Sale of children
  • Slavery
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Trafficking
  • Traffic in persons
  • Right to drinking water
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Thailand/Lao PDR: UN experts concerned by disappearance of Lao human rights defender 10/1/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
  • Independent expert to examine the existing international criminal and human rights framework for the protection of persons from enforced or involuntary disappearance
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Human rights defenders
  • Extreme poverty
  • Internally displaced persons
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Saudi Arabia: UN experts urge freedom for Loujain Al-Hathloul after 500 days in prison 9/27/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Sp. Rapporteur on religious intolerance
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Human rights defenders
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Violence against women
  • Religious intolerance
  • Terrorism
  • Women
  • Freedom of association
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
 E F S R C A
China: Harassment of human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong must stop, say UN experts 9/24/2019
  • Press Releases
  • China
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • WG on Disappearances
  • Extreme poverty
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Human rights defenders
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Enforced or involuntary disappearances
 E F S R C A
Bangladesh: UN experts concerned by crackdown at Rohingya refugee camps 9/16/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Bangladesh
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  • Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Minorities
  • Migration and Human Rights
  • Human rights defenders
  • Freedom of association
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
 E F S R C A
Indonesia must protect rights of Veronica Koman and others reporting on Papua and West Papua protests - UN experts 9/16/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Indonesia
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Violence against women
  • Human rights defenders
  • Freedom of association
  • Women
 E F S R C A
China/Hong Kong SAR*: UN experts urge China to respect protesters’ rights 9/12/2019
  • Press Releases
  • China
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Sp. Rapporteur on torture
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Human rights defenders
  • Torture and inhuman treatment
  • Freedom of movement
 E F S R C A
Nicaragua must stop reprisals against journalists, say human rights experts 8/26/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Nicaragua
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Human rights defenders
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Freedom of association
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
 E F S R C A
UN rights experts urge India to end communications shutdown in Kashmir 8/22/2019
  • Press Releases
  • India
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • WG on Disappearances
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Human rights defenders
  • Enforced or involuntary disappearances
  • Right to peace
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
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