UN experts urge China to explain detention of Tibetan environmental activist Tsongon Tsering

Mar 31, 2025

Three UN Special rapporteurs, Mary Lawlor, Astrid Puentes Rian, and Irene Khan, issued a collective statement expressing their concerns regarding the summoning and interrogation...

Experts urge G7 leaders to call on Xi Jinping to stop colonial boarding schools in Tibet: Report

Apr 03, 2023

Experts while deliberating on the subject "China's Colonial Practices and Threat to the Cultural Identity of Tibet" in an international webinar discussed various human...

UN experts lambast Pakistan for failing to stop forced conversions, marriages of minor girls

Apr 12, 2024

According to the same UN press release the experts expressed concern that forced marriages and religious conversions of girls from religious minorities which have...

UN experts call for urgent protection of Journalists at risk of persecution in Afghanistan

Sep 04, 2021

Geneva [Switzerland], September 4 : A group of UN human rights experts on Friday called on all countries to provide urgent protection to Afghan...

IAEA chief to travel Ukraine next week, visit NPPs to deploy experts: UN agency

Jan 14, 2023

The Director General will travel to the South Ukraine and Rivne Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) as well as to the Chornobyl site to launch...

UN experts decry Iran's proposed hijab law, says it could mount to 'gender apartheid'

Sep 03, 2023

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