environment | Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and Opinion

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 unanimous Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on States’ obligations on climate change. “The General Assembly resolution regarding...

UN experts urge France to guarantee safe drinking water in Guadeloupe

| Statements

GENEVA (28 March 2024) – UN experts* today expressed concern about recurrent water cuts in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, which are exposing the population to water pollution and excessive water prices that threaten their human rights to drinking water...

Mexico must clarify fate and whereabouts of human rights defenders Ricardo Lagunes and Antonio Díaz and business must collaborate: UN experts

| News, Top-line

GENEVA (20 February 2023) – UN experts* today demanded answers about the fate of two disappeared Mexican human right defenders and urged the Government of Mexico to investigate their disappearance and bring the perpetrators to justice. On 15 January 2023, Ricardo...