The Special Procedures of
@UN_HRC
are human rights experts independent from any govt or organization, serving in their individual capacity.
#StandUp4HumanRights
#WorldPressFreedomDay
:
Freedom of expression and media crucial to tackling climate crisis,
-international Freedom of Expression rapporteurs urge countries to protect journalists & environmental & other human rights defenders - for people & the planet.
The UN expert on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of
#HumanRights
@AlenaDouhan
will visit China 🇨🇳 from 6 to 17 May 2024.
Have your say!
UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls
@UN_WGDAWG
wants your input.
Send your contribution for its upcoming country visit to the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 from 22 to 31 July 2024
🗓️Deadline: 15 June
#Uruguay
🇺🇾: Draft new law providing for the substitution of custodial sentences for house arrest could have the effect of benefiting persons convicted of crimes against humanity and others, -
@WGEID
experts warn.
.
Electoral year 2024: UN experts call for strengthening democracy and reversing global erosion of
#HumanRights
, caused by the rise of authoritarianism worldwide & shrinking civic spaces.
Have your say!
UN Special Rapporteur on health
@drtlaleng
wants your input.
Send your contribution for her upcoming report on harm reduction for sustainable peace and development.
🗓️ Deadline: 27 May
#Venezuela
: UN experts warn of an alarming increase in enforced disappearances ahead of 🇻🇪’s presidential poll. Victims are predominantly members of the main opposition party, as well as the military.
@WGEID
Have your say!
UN Special Rapporteur on education
@UNSR_Education
wants your input.
Send your contribution for her upcoming report on human rights-based use of artificial intelligence
#AI
in education.
Deadline: 27 May
UN
@SRtoxics
&
@SREnvironment
call for a human rights-based approach in the draft plastics treaty based on scientific evidence & principles of non-discrimination, equity, transparency, accountability, participation &needs of groups in vulnerable situations
#Ecuador
: UN experts urge for remedy and reparation in ongoing lawsuits for the victims of modern slavery, who suffered harrowing human rights abuses for decades in privately owned abaca plantations in 🇪🇨.
Have your say!
UN Special Rapporteur on racism
@dalitwomenrock
wants your input.
Send your contribution for her upcoming visit to
#Brazil
🇧🇷.
Deadline: 24 May
UN experts call for international torture-free trade agreement to prevent & limit the excessive use of force & mistreatment by public authorities, incl. in the context of peaceful protests.
#USA
: UN expert
@UNSRVAW
concerned about final implementing regulations for Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972, a federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in education programmes or activities that receive federal funding.
The vote by
#Kiribati
’s Parliament to remove High Court judge David Lambourne is a major setback for justice and rule of law - UN expert
@SRjudgeslawyers
states.
#Israel
/
#Gaza
: UN experts demand safe passage for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, whose ships departing
#T
ürkiye will be carrying 5500 tonnes of humanitarian aid & hundreds of international humanitarian observers to the besieged Gaza Strip.
"The health system in
#Gaza
has been completely obliterated and the right to health has been decimated at every level." -
UN Special Rapporteur on
#health
@drtlaleng
demands
#CeasefireNow
at her press briefing
@UNgeneva
"No
#Palestinian
is safe under Israel’s unfettered control" - says UN expert
@FranceskAlbs
after her visit to Egypt and Jordan. She repeats her call for an immediate & unconditional
#CeasefireNow
and sanctions on
#Israel
to avoid further calamity.
#Iran
: UN experts alarmed by death sentence imposed on rapper & songwriter Toomaj Salehi. They urge authorities in 🇮🇷 to immediately release him & reverse the death sentence.
#EndDeathPenalty