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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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22 May 2025 – GENEVA – A group of independent human rights experts* today expressed concern about the implications of the recent UK Supreme Court judgment interpreting the definition of “woman” under the Equality Act 2010. While the ruling was limited to a question of...
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23 December 2024, GENEVA – Independent human rights experts* today expressed serious concern at what appears to be an increase in systematic targeting of women belonging to the Baha’i religious minority throughout the country. The experts said that Baha’i women were...
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13 December 2024, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed concern about a new law in Iran that imposes a series of new penalties on women and girls who fail to wear a hijab. They called on the Government of Iran to immediately repeal it. “The new hijab law marks an...
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30 August 2024, GENEVA – UN human rights experts* voiced profound concern today over the Taliban’s recent enactment of the “Law on the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice,” signalling further serious regression in human rights in Afghanistan and an escalation...
