UN experts censure Western support for Israel since Gaza war
- 17-Sep-2024
UN human rights experts criticised mostly Western states on Monday for continuing to support Israel despite what they described as a genocide in Gaza which might turn Israel into a “pariah” nation. The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza as a result of more than 11 months of conflict has prompted questions about Western states’ long-standing political […]
UN experts urge war crimes probe in Israel, Palestinian territories
- 27-Nov-2023
GENEVA: UN rights experts called Monday for independent investigations into alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity carried out in Israel and the Palestinian territories since October 7. Morris Tidball-Binz, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, and Alice Jill Edwards, the special rapporteur on torture, issued a joint statement stressing the need for […]
Legacy of slavery affects US Black people daily: UN experts
- 06-May-2023
WASHINGTON: UN experts on racism on Friday highlighted the exhaustion of the Black community at the end of a visit to the United States, where the legacy of slavery must be addressed by authorities “at all levels.” The UN team of independent experts was created after the death in 2020 of George Floyd, a Black […]
UN experts urge international probe into Beirut mega-blast
- 03-Aug-2022
GENEVA: A group of United Nations experts on Wednesday urged the UN Human Rights Council to launch an international investigation into the deadly 2020 Beirut explosion, saying its victims needed justice. The August 4 mega-blast killed more than 200 people and destroyed thousands of homes in the Lebanese capital. The explosion was blamed on a […]
US must close ‘ugly’ Guantanamo chapter: UN experts
- 11-Jan-2022
Two decades after the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay, a group of UN experts on Monday urged Washington to finally close the site of “unrelenting human rights violations”. More than a dozen independent UN rights experts voiced outrage that the military prison in Cuba created after the September 2001 attacks to house detainees in […]