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A UN expert today called on Cuba to stop intimidation and detention of human rights defenders working for racial justice in the country. “The recurrent arrests of human rights defenders on the island, the lack of access to legal representation ...

Cuba: Rights of human rights defenders must be upheld, says UN expert GENEVA (11 March 2021) – A UN expert today called on Cuba to stop intimidation and detention of human rights defenders working for racial justice in the country. “The recurrent arrests of human rights defenders on the island, the lack of access to legal representation while they are detained and the surveillance exercised by agents of the Department of State Security is contrary to international law and must cea...

GENEVA (5 March 2021) – UN expert Mary Lawlor* said today hundreds of human rights defenders are killed for their peaceful work every year, and States must find the political will to protect them and prevent the killings. “It is shocking that between ...

Nicaragua: UN expert urges to improve protection of environmental rights defenders GENEVA (1 February 2021) – A UN human rights expert has condemned the murder of indigenous environmental defender Nacilio Macario on Nicaraguas northern Caribbean coast, urging the Government to investigate his killing and bring those responsible to justice. Mr. Macario, an indigenous Mayangna, was originally from the Autonomous Region of the Northern Caribbean Coast and campaigned against illegal gold min...

Nicaragua: UN expert urges to improve protection of environmental rights defenders GENEVA (1 February 2021) – A UN human rights expert has condemned the murder of indigenous environmental defender Nacilio Macario on Nicaraguas northern Caribbean coast, urging the Government to investigate his killing and bring those responsible to justice. Mr. Macario, an indigenous Mayangna, was originally from the Autonomous Region of the Northern Caribbean Coast and campaigned against illegal gold min...

Saturday, 23 January 2021, 6:21 am GENEVA (22 January 2021) – A UN expert* deplored today the arrest and prolonged pre-trial detention of human rights defenders and bloggers, and their accusation of being members of a terrorist organisation, continuing Egypt’s practice to intimidate and criminalise human rights defenders, journalists and their families. “I am extremely concerned by the seemingly unrelenting efforts of the Egyptian authorities to silence dissent and shrink civic space in ...

Egypt’s targeting of human rights defenders must stop, says UN expert GENEVA (22 January 2021) – A UN expert* deplored today the arrest and prolonged pre-trial detention of  human rights defenders and bloggers, and their  accusation of being members of a terrorist organisation, continuing Egypt’s practice to intimidate and criminalise human rights defenders, journalists and their families. “I am extremely concerned by the seemingly unrelenting efforts of the Egyptian author...

Egypt’s targeting of human rights defenders must stop, says UN expert GENEVA (22 January 2021) – A UN expert* deplored today the arrest and prolonged pre-trial detention of  human rights defenders and bloggers, and their  accusation of being members of a terrorist organisation, continuing Egypt’s practice to intimidate and criminalise human rights defenders, journalists and their families. “I am extremely concerned by the seemingly unrelenting efforts of the Egyptian author...

GENEVA (16 December 2020) – A UN human rights expert today expressed dismay at the shocking treatment of human rights defenders and lawyers in China, saying they continue to be charged, detained, disappeared and tortured five years after the start of a crackdown on the profession under the guise of national security concerns. “Since the so-called ‘709 crackdown’ began on 9 July 2015, the profession of human rights lawyer has been effectively criminalised in China,” said Mary L...