UN experts condemn Chinese inaction in Cao Shunli’s death

The UN experts condemned the continued failure of Chinese authorities to investigate the death of human rights...

UN condemns bombings against political campaign offices in Pak

UN experts also condemned many other violent acts targeting the polls, including a bombing at a women's polling...

UN Special Rapporteur endorses calls to cease girls' detentions

According to the UN experts' statement, detained women and girls were taken to police stations, where they received...

UN express concerns over arbitrary detentions of Afghan women

In a recent report, United Nations experts voiced concerns about the Taliban's "arbitrary" arrest of women and...

UN experts raise concern over condition of Afghans in Pakistan

The UN experts highlighted the alarming risk of human rights violations against Afghan nationals in Pakistan and...

Taliban must immediately release women human rights defenders

A month after their arrest, Neda Parwan and Zholia Parsi and their family members have yet to be charged with a...

UN urges release of Chinese human rights defender

"Guo Feixiong is unjustly imprisoned, and he is in a critical state of health," said Mary Lawlor, UN Special...

UN experts deplore attacks in Israel

UN independent experts unequivocally condemned targeted and deadly violence directed at civilians in Israel and...

UN experts decry Iran's proposed hijab law

A potential draft legislation in Iran that would cement harsh sanctions for women and girls who do not wear a...

"Taliban's treatment of women may amount to gender apartheid"

A UN expert on Monday said the Taliban's treatment of Afghan women and girls may amount to gender apartheid, given...

UN experts call on Taliban to end "brutal" forms of punishment

A group of UN-appointed ten Special Rapporteurs, including Richard Bennett and members of the Working Group on...

Taliban ruling through extreme forms of misogyny, say UN experts

This came following UN experts eight-day visit to Afghanistan. UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human...