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UN experts warn of legal uncertainty and rights implications following UK Supreme Court ruling

May 22, 2025 | News, Statements, Top-line

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...

Iran: Experts alarmed at systematic targeting of Baha’i women

Dec 23, 2024 | News, Reports, Top-line

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...

Iran: UN experts call for Hijab and Chastity law to be repealed

Dec 13, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line

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...

New morality law affirms Taliban’s regressive agenda, experts call for concerted action

Aug 30, 2024 | News, Statements, Top-line

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...

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