GENEVA (12 June 2017) – Urgent action is needed to safeguard people’s online rights in the face of unprecedented and worsening State clampdowns, a United Nations human rights expert has warned in a new report. Governments and companies should act now
Blasphemy law has no place in a tolerant nation like Indonesia – UN rights experts
GENEVA (22 May 2017) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged the Government of Indonesia to review and repeal its criminalization of blasphemy. Their call comes after the recent blasphemy conviction and imprisonment of Indonesian politician
UN and Inter-American Experts Condemn Reporter’s Killing in Mexico and Call for Immediate Action to End Cycle of Killings of Journalists
GENEVA / WASHINGTON, D.C. (18 May 2017) – Two experts on freedom of expression of the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) condemned the killing of Mexican journalist and writer Javier Valdez Cárdenas, cofounder and writer
UN rights experts urge Hungary to withdraw Bill on foreign funding to NGOs
GENEVA (15 May 2017) – Two United Nations human rights experts* today urged the Hungarian government to withdraw their recently proposed Bill on the Transparency of Organizations Financed from Abroad (T/14967). The Bill, if adopted into law, would severely curtail