UN envoy visits Lebanon to examine government’s efforts to alleviate poverty
News briefing Editing: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 27, 2021 The Media Center of the Human Rights Council in Geneva announced that the United Nations […]
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UN urges Saudi Arabia to halt execution of two citizens
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 26, 2021 UN experts have expressed their concerns about the execution of two Saudi […]
Bachelet describes Israel’s decision to classify Palestinian human rights organizations as “terrorist” organizations as an unjustified attack on Palestinian civil society
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 26, 2021 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, confirmed that […]
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights strongly condemns Sudan coup and calls for restoration of democratic path
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 25, 2021 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, condemned Monday’s […]
UN experts call on Israel to release 5 hunger strikers or bring them to trial and stop administrative detention
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 24, 2021 UN experts have expressed their grave concerns about the lives of five Palestinians who are on […]
UN concerned about political pressure on the judiciary in Lebanon
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 17, 2021 UN experts revealed that they had received information indicating an alleged political […]
Iraq: UN concerned about targeting civil society activists participating in demonstrations
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 13, 2021 United Nations human rights experts have condemned the targeting of human rights […]
Egypt: UN concerned about the arrest and inclusion of two activists on terrorist lists
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 12 October 2021 UN experts have expressed concern about the arbitrary detention of Egyptian human […]
Egypt: UN concerned about execution of a citizen and the systematic use of torture to extract confessions
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 10, 2021 United Nations human rights experts have voices their concerns about the alleged […]
Human Rights Council holds discussions on the periodic review of Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories amid condemnation of Israeli violations
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 3, 2021 The Human Rights Council in Geneva held public discussions on the Universal […]
Algeria: UN concerned about sexual assault and arbitrary arrests against protesters
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 5, 2021 UN experts have expressed their concerns about allegations of sexual assault, torture and […]
Fact-finding mission in Libya: War crimes committed in the country since 2016
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 4 October 2021 The Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Libya stated in a report it published that […]
UN concerned about Palestinian authorities’ alleged arbitrary detention of 3 human rights defenders
News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: October 4 2021 UN experts have expressed their concern about the alleged arbitrary detention of […]
UN experts condemn Israeli arrests and judicial harassment of 8 activists in occupied Palestine and Israel
Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 3 October 2021 UN human rights experts have condemned the arrests, judicial harassment, criminalization and threats against […]
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights reviews Kuwait’s report and inquires about women’s rights and conditions of domestic workers
News briefing: Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 29 September 2021 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations […]
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