Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office issued its first ever guidance paper on “transnational repression,” aimed at increasing awareness and understanding of this expanding global issue.

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One year after Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election, the government of President Nicolás Maduro is continuing to kill, detain, torture and disappear critics in a “systematic” campaign of repression, ...

UN Human Rights Expert Says Russia Steps up Repression to Silence Opposition to War in Ukraine GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. expert monitoring human rights in Russia said Monday that “repression is escalating, ...

Armas' abduction is one of dozens detailed in the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission's 2025 report on Venezuela. The 165-page document, released this week, offers one of the most comprehensive ...

A panel of United Nations human rights experts pressed the international community on Thursday to take action against Nicaragua’s leaders, Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, for what they described as ...

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. expert monitoring human rights in Russia said Monday that “repression is escalating,” targeting civilians, journalists and even Ukrainian prisoners of war in an attempt to silence ...