Aug 28, 2025 | News, Statements, Top-line
28 August 2025, GENEVA – A group of UN experts* today issued a joint statement reaffirming the centrality of understanding gender as a tool in the advancement of substantive equality and human rights for all. “Gender-based discrimination must be addressed alongside...
Aug 14, 2025 | News, Reports, Top-line
14 August 2025, GENEVA – UN experts* today called on the international community to reject the Taliban’s violent and authoritarian rule and resist any moves towards normalising the de facto authorities’ regime, four years after the group seized power in Afghanistan....
Jan 14, 2025 | News, Statements, Top-line
14 January 2025, GENEVA – A group of independent human rights experts* today expressed grave concern at the Iranian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentence handed down to Ms. Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish woman activist and social worker. “The charges...
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...
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...
