May 26, 2025 | News, Statements, Top-line
26 May 2025 – GENEVA – UN independent experts* today expressed grave concern over the continued detention of Anar Mammadli, a prominent Azerbaijani human rights defender who was arbitrarily detained on 29 April last year. “Defending human rights should never be...
Mar 10, 2025 | News, Statements, Top-line
10 March 2025, GENEVA – The Slovak Government must immediately end the stigmatisation and persecution of NGOs, journalists and civil society organisations and stop using surveillance systems for political repression, a group of independent human rights experts* said...
Mar 7, 2025 | News, Statements, Top-line
7 March 2025, GENEVA – Belarus must disclose the fate and whereabouts of pro-democracy activist Siarhei Tsikhanouski on the second anniversary of his enforced disappearance, UN experts* said today. They recalled that several other members of pro-democratic forces...
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...
Oct 22, 2024 | News, Statements
22 October 2024, GENEVA – UN human rights experts* are urgently seeking confirmation of reports of the death of Victoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist and human rights defender who has been forcibly disappeared since early August 2023 while reporting in...
