We need to "take a step back" and assess the full environmental and human rights impacts of mining critical minerals, says ...
Irene Khan will also focus on Zambia’s legal and policy framework and the safety of journalists, activists and human rights ...
UN special rapporteurs wrote to the UK government raising concerns about the use of counter-terror legislation to prolong ...
They call the arrest of Electronic Intifada website’s founder ‘shocking’ and urge the Swiss government to release him.
GENEVA (24 January 2025) – The Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples, Albert Kwokwo Barume, has commended the decision by outgoing United States President Joe Biden to issue an ...
Independent NT politician Yiŋiya Guyula has requested the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous ...
U.N. human rights experts and activists on Sunday condemned the arrest of an American, pro-Palestinian journalist in the Swiss city of Zurich, saying it raised concerns about freedom of speech. Ali ...
UN rights experts on Thursday urged Thailand to repeal its royal defamation laws, branding them vague and saying their widespread use ...
GENEVA (30 January 2025) – Thailand’s continuous use of lèse-majesté laws to detain and imprison activists and human rights defenders is gravely concerning, a group of UN experts* said today, urging ...
The magnitude of the Northern Territory’s growing prison population crisis is becoming clearer with Corrections Commissioner ...