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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 4h

UN expert Irene Khan expresses grave concern for the safety of detained #FreedomFlotilla Coalition activists, including the vessel #Conscience carrying journalists & health care workers, after Global Sumud Flotilla activists reported mistreatment in #Israeli detention.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 7h

#Kuwait 🇰🇼 has achieved a social contract without relying on domestic taxation and is at the forefront of developing its fiscal system, says UN expert Attiya Waris concluding her visit to the country.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 1d

#Afghanistan: Independent investigative mechanism answers call by Afghan victims for truth & justice - UN expert Richard Bennett welcomes Human Rights Council decision as crucial to advancing accountability for crimes committed over decades.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 1d

#Cambodia: UN expert Vitit Muntarbhorn alarmed by disturbing #HumanRights situation, calls on the authorities to drop the charges against political opponents, release those detained & take action to open up civic and political space.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 1d

UN expert urges #Singapore 🇸🇬 to halt planned execution of Malaysian national for drug offence, warns it would amount to arbitrary deprivation of life.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 5d

UN experts urge #Nicaragua to reveal the fate and whereabouts of over 120 forcibly disappeared people, warning that all those trying to defend their rights face grave risk of #EnforcedDisappearance in the country.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 5d

UN experts alarmed that lawyer Kevin Yam (Yam Kin Fung) was disbarred & fined in retaliation for statements he made about the independence of judges and prosecutors in Hong Kong, during a 2023 US Congressional hearing.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 5d

#Sudan: Targeting civilians, using starvation, disappearance, sexual violence & forced displacement as weapons of war may amount to crimes against humanity, warn UN experts.
“Sudan must not descend further into a nightmare of violence, hunger & despair”

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 5d

#Palestine: Any peace plan must respect international law, beginning with self-determination and accountability, urge UN experts.

"The Israeli occupation must end immediately, totally and unconditionally, with due reparation made to the Palestinians".

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 7d

#Japan: UN experts concerned by continued stigmatisation of religious minorities & its impacts on children and young people in particular, referring to pamphlets disseminated to children that reinforce discriminatory stereotypes.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 8d

#DRC: UN expert @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social warns of abuses against women human rights defenders and their families in South Kivu, calling for urgent investigations, accountability and end to impunity surrounding such abuses.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 9d

UN expert on foreign debt and human rights to visit #Kuwait 🇰🇼 from 1 to 8 October 2025.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 9d

#Iran: UN experts appalled by unprecedented scale of recent executions, with over 1000 documented in 9 months & the actual number likely to be much higher.

The experts urge int'l community to pressure Iran to halt further death sentences & executions.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 12d

Urgent on #GlobalSumudFlotilla: UN experts urge all States to uphold international human rights and humanitarian law, particularly in international waters.

UN experts are in contact with various authorities on this matter.

#SailtoGaza #BreaktheSiege

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 12d

UN expert Eduardo González calls on #Mali 🇲🇱 to remain in the International Criminal Court.

Withdrawing from #ICC would be a betrayal of victims of gross human rights violations and abuses committed in Mali.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 12d

UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Morris Tidball-Binz, will conduct a visit to #Lebanon 🇱🇧 from 29 September to 10 October.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 13d

UN experts hail ratification of landmark ocean protection agreement #HighSeasTreaty- a historic step to protect the high seas & the deep seabed and to uphold everyone’s #HumanRight to a clean, healthy & sustainable environment. #BBNJ

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 15d

UN experts call for suspension of #Israel from FIFA & UEFA amid unfolding genocide in occupied #Palestine.

Sporting bodies must not turn a blind eye to grave human rights violations, especially when their platforms are used to normalise injustices.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 15d

#Belarus: UN independent experts denounce the attempted deportation & disappearance of prominent opposition politician Mikalai Statkevich.

“There are solid reasons to believe that Statkevich is a victim of enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention”

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 16d

UN expert on health @drtlaleng.bsky.social welcomes #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 Police directive to end unnecessary confiscation of syringes and needles, calling on Govts to facilitate drug laws & policies centred on dignity, public health and #humanrights.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 16d

UN and regional experts urge States to stop criminalizing civil society & protests and to ensure everyone’s rights to peaceful assembly & association are protected.

Read the joint statement:
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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 16d

#Egypt: UN human rights experts express deep concern over the continued detention of political cartoonist Ashraf Omar & the sweeping misuse of counter-terrorism legislation in the country to silence artists & journalists, & curtail freedom of expression.

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 16d

The USA decision to sanction 3 leading Palestinian human rights organisations, Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, & the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, as part of its campaign to undermine the ICC's work on #Israel, is alarming & represents a direct attack on international justice.
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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 19d

One year after #UNGA resolution on ICJ ruling, UN experts urge States to comply with the Advisory Opinion and cut ties with #Israel's unlawful occupation of #Palestine. "This means that sanctions cannot be avoided," they explain:

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UN-SPexperts @un-spexperts.bsky.social · 21d

UN experts welcome @who.int decision to add sunscreen to model lists of essential medicines - an important development to draw attention to & find remedies for the needless deaths caused by skin cancer for persons with #albinism.
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