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Hate speech: UN experts make joint call for action by states and social media firms 9/23/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination
  • Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
  • Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
  • Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
  • Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
  • Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
  • Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
  • Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia
  • Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Sp. Rapporteur on Myanmar
  • Sp. Rapporteur on occupied Palestine
  • Independent expert on Somalia
  • Independent Expert on Mali
  • Migration and Human Rights
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Religious intolerance
  • Racism and racial discrimination
  • Minorities
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Violence against women
  • Traffic in persons
  • International Order
  • Human Rights and International Solidarity
  • Truth justice and reparation
  • Extreme poverty
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Terrorism
  • Women
  • African Descent
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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
Canada: UN expert praises new bill recognising rights of Indigenous women 8/28/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Canada
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Violence against women
 E F S R C A
International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief 8/22/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
  • Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
  • Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • WG on Arbitrary Detention
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the sale of children
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
  • Special Rapporteur on the right to health
  • Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
  • Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
  • WG on Disappearances
  • Religious intolerance
  • Cultural rights
  • Minorities
  • Violence against women
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Women
  • Human rights defenders
  • Arbitrary detention
  • Sale of children
  • Education
  • Health
  • Terrorism
  • Sexual orientation and gender identity
  • Enforced or involuntary disappearances
 E F S R C A
Iran: Release women jailed for protesting against compulsory wearing of veil, say UN rights experts 8/16/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
  • Arbitrary detention
  • Women rights
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Freedom of association
  • Discrimination
  • Human rights defenders
  • Women human rights defenders
  • Religious intolerance
  • Women
  • Violence against women
 E F S R C A
Italy: UN experts condemn criminalisation of migrant rescues and threats to the independence of judiciary 7/18/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Italy
  • Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
  • Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Independence of judiciary
  • Human rights defenders
  • Human Rights and International Solidarity
  • Violence against women
  • Migration and Human Rights
 E F S R C A
SRVAW Statement to 73rd session of CEDAW Committee 7/1/2019
  • Statements/Messages
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Violence against women
 E F S R C A
41st session of the Human Rights Council, Statement by Ms. Dubravka Šimonović, Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its causes and consequences 6/27/2019
  • Statements/Messages
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Violence against women
 E F S R C A
New global approach needed to eliminate violence against women and girls, says UN expert 6/27/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Violence against women
 E F S R C A
UN human rights experts call for independent probe into Philippines violations 6/7/2019
  • Press Releases
  • Philippines
  • Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
  • Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
  • Special Rapporteur on the right to health
  • Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
  • Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
  • Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
  • WG on Arbitrary Detention
  • Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples
  • Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
  • Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
  • Summary or arbitrary executions
  • Violence against women
  • Right to food
  • Freedom of opinion and expression
  • Freedom of association
  • Arbitrary detention
  • Health
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Independence of judiciary
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