One of the essential features of the Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures is the country visit. OHCHR describes country visits as follows: Mandate-holders carry out country visits to assess the situation of human rights at the national level: at the
Intervention in ECHR Case of Ismayilova v Azerbaijan
Khadija Ismayilova, an internationally respected investigative journalist in Azerbaijan, has published numerous pieces uncovering high-level corruption over the course of her career. The target of numerous government-inspired attacks on her credibility and privacy, Azerbaijani authorities charged her with “incitement to
Iran: UN human rights experts welcome freeing of Iranian-Americans and call for more releases
GENEVA (19 January 2016) – United Nations human rights experts today welcomed the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s release of four Iranian-Americans and called on Tehran to pave the way for the release of all remaining detainees unlawfully
Norway, Freedom of Expression and MLK
I have been in Oslo for the past day in order to celebrate the Norwegian Government’s launch of a new strategy that puts freedom of expression at the center of its human rights policy. My colleague in the OSCE, Dunja