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10 October 2025, GENEVA – New restrictions on internet access and social media channels in Afghanistan are a violation of the rights of Afghans, UN experts warned* today, a week after the Taliban lifted a nationwide telecommunications shutdown they had imposed...
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8 October 2025, GENEVA – Israel must guarantee the safety and human rights of all individuals aboard the Conscience and other vessels of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition intercepted this morning, a UN expert said today. “This attack against unarmed civilians on the high...
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9 September 2025, GENEVA – UN experts* today called on authorities in Mali to disclose the fate and whereabouts of journalist and activist El Bachir Thiam, who disappeared four months ago. “Mali must immediately and unconditionally release El Bachir Thiam and other...
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4 September 2025, GENEVA – UN experts* are outraged by the killing of six more Palestinian journalists — including two women — in multiple Israeli strikes in Gaza over the past 10 days. Mariam Abu Daqqa, a visual journalist who freelanced for the Associated Press was...
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1 September 2025, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed deep concern about the increase in serious human rights violations in Burundi, that has included attacks against civil society and political opponents and election violence. Between January 2024 and May 2025,...
