OHCHRJuly 16, 2021NEWS RELEASE: Myanmar crisis risks damaging entire generation of children, UN Child Rights Committee warns
UNICEFJuly 16, 2021NEWS RELEASE: Myanmar crisis risks damaging entire generation of children, UN Child Rights Committee warns
ReutersJuly 14, 2021NEWS RELEASE: Myanmar: UN expert warns of “perfect storm” over COVID, calls for urgent international help
EPA-EFEJune 30, 2021NEWS RELEASE: United Nations entities concerned by arrest of environmental human rights defenders in Cambodia
OHCHRJune 11, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Bachelet issues strong warning of imminent further bloodshed and suffering in Myanmar
Getty ImagesJune 4, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Governments in Asia-Pacific must ensure indigenous participation to protect environment, restore ecosystems, UN Human Rights Offices say
OHCHRMay 20, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Myanmar: UN expert welcomes “new blow” against junta’s finances, urges all nations step up with sanctions
OHCHRMay 12, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Myanmar: Time for business to take a stand against human rights violations – UN expert
EPA-EFEApril 13, 2021NEWS RELEASE: Intensifying widespread, systematic slaughter by Myanmar military must be halted – Bachelet
April 12, 2021Lao PDR: Five years after arrest, human rights defenders still denied access to lawyers – UN expert
ReutersMarch 28, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Myanmar: Top UN officials condemn “systematic” attacks on peaceful protesters, and flag international responsibility to protect the people from atrocity crimes
EPA-EFEMarch 25, 2021NEWS RELEASE: Myanmar: UN expert urges emergency summit to head off deepening crisis
ReutersMarch 18, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Myanmar: UN experts raise alarm over forced evictions, escalation of rights violations
EPA-EFEMarch 11, 2021NEWS RELEASE: Myanmar junta crackdown likely crimes against humanity requiring coordinated international response – UN expert
OHCHRMarch 4, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Myanmar: UN human rights expert issues report and urges decisive, unified action to put an end to brutality
EPAMarch 4, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Myanmar military must stop murdering and jailing protestors – Bachelet
EPAFebruary 28, 2021MEDIA STATEMENT – UN Human Rights Office urges military to halt violence against peaceful protestors across Myanmar
EPAFebruary 26, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Myanmar: Military must restore democracy, allow people to protest and express themselves, say UN experts
ReutersFebruary 24, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Philippines: UN experts urge release of Senator Leila De Lima after four years in pre-trial detention
ReutersFebruary 24, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Malaysia: UN experts appalled by deportation of migrants to Myanmar despite court order
OHCHRFebruary 12, 2021Myanmar – Statement by Tom Andrews, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar
EPA-EFEFebruary 10, 2021NEWS RELEASE – UN expert warns security forces in Myanmar: Following orders is no defence for atrocities
UNFebruary 1, 2021MEDIA STATEMENT – Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Myanmar
EPAFebruary 1, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Myanmar coup: UN expert calls for strong international response including sanctions and arms embargo
January 28, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Philippines: Drop murder charge against indigenous rights defender, UN experts urge
EPAJanuary 15, 2021NEWS RELEASE – Viet Nam: Arrests send chilling message before key Party meeting – UN experts
UNICEF/KadyrbekovDecember 18, 2020PRESS RELEASE: Migrants in Asia and the Pacific at higher risk of COVID-19 and its socio-economic fallout
OHCHR/Todd PitmanDecember 10, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Myanmar – UN expert urges independent assessment of Bhasan Char and verification of voluntary relocation
OHCHRNovember 30, 2020MEDIA STATEMENT: Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani on Papua and West Papua, Indonesia
.November 16, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Cambodia: UN experts alarmed by civil society crackdown, attacks on defenders
EPANovember 2, 2020NEWS RELEASE: UN expert calls on Myanmar to stop curtailing democratic rights in run-up to general election
EPAOctober 22, 2020NEWS RELEASE: UN experts urge Thai government to allow peaceful protests and release unconditionally those arbitrarily detained
AFPAugust 28, 2020NEWS RELEASE (ENG/THAI): UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia urges States to criminalize enforced disappearance, ratify convention
AFPAugust 28, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Nuclear legacy must not endanger rights of future generations, UN Human Rights Office says
EPAAugust 25, 2020NEWS RELEASE – As election looms, Myanmar has opportunity to take new path, says UN Human Rights Office official
PexelsJuly 16, 2020NEWS RELEASE (ENG/THAI): UN Human Rights Office urges Thailand to promptly enact torture and disappearance law fully incorporating international standards
July 10, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Protecting the human rights of migrants in the Pacific essential in COVID-19 recovery process, UN agencies say
June 25, 2020NEWS RELEASE: UN human rights experts renew call for an on-the-ground independent, impartial investigation
EPAJune 19, 2020NEWS RELEASE: UN Human Rights Office urges Myanmar to restore internet access in Rakhine, Chin States amid COVID-19 pandemic
EPAJune 16, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Philippines – UN expert decries conviction of journalists, urges reversal
OHCHRJune 12, 2020Voices From the Field: Build “resilient and inclusive” societies, standing together with migrants
AFPJune 8, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Thailand – UN Human Rights Office welcomes acquittal of human rights defenders
June 5, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Governments across Asia-Pacific must protect human rights in the environment, UN Human Rights Offices say
OHCHR/Todd PitmanJune 4, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Philippines: UN report details widespread human rights violations and persistent impunity
June 3, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Asia – Bachelet alarmed by clampdown on freedom of expression during COVID-19
EPAMay 21, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Malaysia / COVID-19: “Stop crackdown on migrants, journalists and civil society” – UN rights experts
EPAApril 30, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Indigenous and environmental rights must be respected in Philippines mine standoff, UN experts say
AFPApril 29, 2020NEWS RELEASE: “Possible war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Myanmar, UN Special Rapporteur says
UNApril 23, 2020MEDIA STATEMENT: “We are all in this Together,” UN Secretary-General says on COVID-19
EPAApril 9, 2020NEWS RELEASE: UN Human Rights Office urges Asia-Pacific States to release detained migrants, suspend forced returns amid COVID-19 crisis
AFPApril 9, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Myanmar must allow free flow of information and aid to protect right to health in COVID-19 crisis – UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee
AFPMarch 18, 2020NEWS RELEASE (ENG/THAI): UN Human Rights Office condemns attacks in Thailand during COVID-19 meeting
AFPMarch 13, 2020NEWS RELEASE (ENG-THAI): Thailand – judicial system abused by business to silence human rights defenders – UN experts
EPAMarch 11, 2020NEWS RELEASE: Myanmar – UN expert Yanghee Lee finishes mandate, urges authorities democracy, human rights
Getty ImagesNovember 13, 2019NEWS RELEASE: UN Human Rights Office welcomes progress on Thai enforced disappearance case, urges government to do more
October 5, 2019MEDIA STATEMENT: UN Human Rights Chief calls on Malaysians to spurn racial, religious hatred
September 16, 2019NEWS RELEASE: Myanmar’s Rohingya Persecuted, Living under Threat of Genocide, UN Experts Say
September 11, 2019NEWS RELEASE: Enforced disappearances – UN experts urge States to “stop looking the other way”
September 9, 2019NEWS RELEASE: Thailand – UN Human Rights Office Recognizes Progress in Enforced Disappearance Case
September 4, 2019MEDIA STATEMENT: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Indonesia (Papua and West Papua)
OHCHRAugust 22, 2019Media Statement: UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar Calls for Justice for Victims of Sexual and Gender-based Violence
EPAAugust 5, 2019NEWS RELEASE: UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar exposes military business ties, calls for sanctions, arms embargoes
OHCHRJune 5, 2019MEDIA STATEMENT: “Without fear of violence, intimidation or reprisals” – Protecting the work of environmental defenders
May 14, 2019NEWS RELEASE: UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar urges financial isolation of Myanmar military
OHCHRDecember 20, 2018NEWS RELEASE: UN Human Rights Office urges Thailand to enact torture and disappearance law
OHCHROctober 24, 2018NEWS RELEASE: The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia calls on the Singaporean Government to halt the imminent execution
OHCHRJune 19, 2018NEWS RELEASE: UN Human Rights Office expresses dismay at the resumption of death penalty in Thailand
OHCHRMay 2, 2018NEWS RELEASE: The UN Human Rights Office calls on Thailand to end restrictions on activists raising critical human rights issues
OHCHRApril 17, 2018NEWS RELEASE: Thailand – OHCHR concerned with the lack of progress on the investigation of the enforced disappearance case
OHCHRMarch 16, 2018NEWS RELEASE: UN Human Rights Office condemns execution for drug-related offences in Singapore
OHCHRFebruary 28, 2018NEWS RELEASE: We want to reduce executions in South East Asia – UN high-level human rights rep
OHCHRFebruary 19, 2018NEWS RELEASE: Drug-related offences, criminal justice responses and the death penalty in South East Asia
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