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The UN body of experts that monitors implementation of the main global treaty on women’s rights has called on Belarus to take urgent measures to protect the rights and well-being of political prisoner Victoria Kulsha. On 25 August 2025, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) called… Read More

Read the full letter (English and Persian) Today, 22 human rights organisations and 13 individuals, including Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi, have called, in an open letter, on Iran to provide life-saving medical treatment to  Zeinab Jalalian, the country’s longest-serving female political prisoner. Zeinab Jalalian,… Read More

On 8 September 2025, widespread protests erupted across Nepal, marking the most significant unrest in decades. The demonstrations were primarily youth-led, dubbed the ‘Gen Z’ movement, and included children among the participants. Demonstrators took to the streets in response to the government’s ban on 26 major social media platforms, including… Read More

This is the seventh blog in a series featuring legal representatives and experts in the field of strategic litigation against torture, discussing the strategic impact of cases catalogued in Casebook 1. In this blog post, Kiri Van Lengen-Welty, Interim Lead Lawyer of the Africa Death Penalty Team at Reprieve,… Read More

READ THE REPORT Sri Lanka has systematically shielded the killers of journalists over a quarter of a century, says a new report focusing on the failures of the police investigation into the October 2000 assassination of BBC Jaffna reporter, Nimalarajan Mylvaganam. At least 44 journalists and media… Read More

READ THE PRESS RELEASE IN ENGLISH   LEA EL INFORME Desnudez forzada, violación, requisas invasivas, acoso sexual, tocamientos inapropiados, violaciones anales y vaginales con objetos, insultos sexistas y homofóbicos: estos no son hechos aislados, sino parte de un patrón creciente y alarmante en América Latina. Read More

LEE EL COMUNICADO DE PRENSA EN ESPAÑOL   READ THE REPORT Forced nudity, rape, invasive searches, sexual harassment, inappropriate touching, anal and vaginal rape with objects, sexist and homophobic insults — these are not isolated incidents but part of a growing and alarming pattern in… Read More

On 2 April 2012, Ansar Dine and AQIM – armed groups pursuing a jihadist ideology – took control of the city in Timbuktu, northern Mali. Over the following nine months, Ansar Dine/AQIM imposed a system of Sharia-based rules and norms on the population, introducing harsh punishments for non-compliance, including… Read More