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15 April 2026, GENEVA – Legislation penalising information perceived as “promoting” consensual same-sex relations, healthcare for transgender persons or reproductive autonomy that was recently adopted in Belarus will institutionalise discrimination and significantly...
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14 April 2026, GENEVA – Draft legislation aimed at combatting “new forms of antisemitism” would seriously undermine freedom of expression, legal certainty in criminal offences, and other international human rights, UN experts* warned today. “The so-called ‘PPL Yadan’...
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14 November 2025, GENEVA – A bill to ban so-called “LGBT propaganda” in Kazakhstan’s Parliament would entrench stigma, outlaw expression, and contravene international human rights obligations, UN experts* warned today. On 12 November, the Mazhilis (lower house of...
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24 July 2025, GENEVA – UN human rights experts* today called on the government of Pakistan to take concrete measures to prevent extrajudicial killings, arbitrary arrests and attacks against places of worship and cemeteries amid ongoing violence and discrimination...
