#un-human-rights

#un-human-rights

Reem Alsalem, the United Nations special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said the arrests send an important message that nobody is above the law, irrespective of your wealth, your connections even if you're royalty. At the same time, it's important that we examine the involvement of anyone that has enabled, facilitated, the crimes committed by the Epstein criminal enterprise, Alsalem told Al Jazeera.

The UK's decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation has been likened to authoritarian crackdowns in Russia by a UN expert. The UN special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, Professor Ben Saul, said the UK government's ban on the direct action protest group is an unnecessary and disproportionate restriction on fundamental human rights. In evidence submitted to the High Court, he warned that the move sets a precedent for further crackdown on other protest movements in the UK, such as climate activists.