GENEVA (6 April 2016) – Three United Nations human rights experts* today urged the Government of Mexico to express its full support for the work of human rights defenders and civil society organisations, and to actively counter the current stigmatisation
UN expert calls on Bahrain to release woman rights defender and stop persecuting defenders
GENEVA (18 March 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst, today called on the Government of Bahrain to immediately release prominent Bahraini women’s rights and social media activist Zainab Al-Khawaja, and
Qatar: UN experts welcome release of poet al-Ajami, but call for deep review of law and judicial system
GENEVA (18 March 2016) – Three United Nations human rights experts today welcomed the release of the Qatari poet Mohammed al-Ajami, while urging the Government of Qatar to give serious consideration to reviewing the laws and judicial procedures that have
FBI v Apple from the perspective of human rights law
In the wake of Federal Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym’s February 16 order to compel Apple to create code to unlock the work-provided iPhone of San Bernardino killer Syed Farook, both parties (see the U.S. Justice Department’s motion to compel and Apple’s Motion to