United Nations

2 results arranged by date

Letters
U.K. Foreign Minister David Lammy attends the G20 Foreign Minister Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, on February 20, 2025. CPJ joined 24 organizations in writing a letter to Lammy, urging the U.K. government to lead on a joint statement to address Egypt’s human rights crisis. (Photo: AFP/Emmanuel Crosetafp)

CPJ: UK must lead joint statement on Egypt at UN Human Rights Council

The U.K. government must lead on a joint statement addressing Egypt’s human rights crisis, according to a February 19 letter sent by the Committee to Protect Journalists and 24 other press freedom and human rights organizations to U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy ahead of the 58th session of the U.N. Human Rights Council. The letter…

Read More ›

Letters
Exiled Nicaraguan journalists report on their home country from San Jose, Costa Rica in 2022. Human rights and journalists' groups have reported that press freedom is almost nonexistent in Nicaragua. (Photo: AP/Moises Castillo)

On eve of UN human rights review, CPJ, 10 others urge Nicaragua to stop persecuting journalists

The Committee to Protect Journalists and 10 other journalism and human rights groups sent a letter on Monday, November 11, to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva ahead of its November 13 Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Nicaragua’s human rights record. The letter is a response to a September report by the…

Read More ›