STATEMENTS
JOINT DECLARATION: The Right to Freedom of Expression and Access to Information of Children in the Digital Age
BANJUL / GENEVA / VIENNA / WASHINGTON D.C. (1 June 2026) – The freedom ofexpression mandate holders of the United ...
UN experts welcome UN General Assembly resolution supporting world court’s climate change ruling
29 May 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today hailed the adoption of the UN General Assembly resolution welcoming the ...
Qatar’s pluralism at risk, warn UN experts
8 May 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm at the potential erasure of the Baha’i religious community ...
Nicaragua: UN experts appalled by allegations of death in custody of forcibly disappeared persons
1 May 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed deep concern today over reports indicating that individuals ...
Algeria: Trial against Hirak poet Mohamed Tadjadit must be quashed, say UN experts
28 April 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the Court in Algiers to quash the trial of the poet Mohamed ...
Iraq: UN experts demand investigation into murder of woman human rights defender
24 April 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today condemned the murder of Iraqi human rights defender Yanar Mohamed in ...
India: UN experts warn Jagtar Singh Johal’s prolonged detention amounts to psychological torture
22 April 2026, GENEVA – There is no rationale for the continued detention of Sikh British national, Jagtar Singh ...
Belarus: UN experts warn of torture, suicide attempts, deaths and reprisals in custody
20 April 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over allegations of prolonged incommunicado ...
UN experts alarmed by law targeting LGBT, women’s rights advocates and independent voices in Belarus
15 April 2026, GENEVA – Legislation penalising information perceived as “promoting” consensual same-sex relations, ...
France: Draft antisemitism law could seriously undermine free expression and other human rights, warn UN experts
14 April 2026, GENEVA – Draft legislation aimed at combatting “new forms of antisemitism” would seriously ...
Strategy of blatant abuse of counter-terrorism and extremism laws to destroy Russian civil society must end: UN experts
9 April 2026, GENEVA – UN Special Rapporteurs today condemned the continued strategy by Russian authorities to ...
Lebanon: UN experts call for international independent investigation into Israel’s killing of journalists
2 April 2026, GENEVA – The targeted killing of three Lebanese journalists constitutes another egregious attack on ...