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GHRTF Legal Briefing: The Worst Places to Practice Your Faith in 2026
GHRTF legal briefing 5 of 5: the findings of the 2026 Red List, the Open Doors World Watch List and the USCIRF annual report, the human rights law engaged, the UN mechanisms available and the role of a draft UN resolution.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
6 hours ago4 min read


GHRTF Legal Briefing: China's Restrictions on Independent Churches and the Zion Church Detentions
GHRTF legal briefing 4 of 5: the detentions of Zion Church leaders, new 2026 measures on religious activity in China, the human rights law engaged, the UN mechanisms available and the role of a draft UN resolution.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
6 hours ago5 min read


GHRTF Legal Briefing: Christians in the Levant After the Killing of Fr. Samir Daou and the Al-Suqaylabiyah Attacks
GHRTF legal briefing 3 of 5: the killing of Fr. Samir Daou in Lebanon and the attacks on Al-Suqaylabiyah in Syria in October 2026, the human rights law engaged, the UN mechanisms available and the role of a draft UN resolution.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
6 hours ago5 min read


GHRTF Legal Briefing: Funeral Attack at St George's Greek Orthodox Church in Karak, Jordan
GHRTF legal briefing 2 of 5: the 23 October 2026 attack on mourners at St George's Greek Orthodox Church in Hmoud, Karak, Jordan, the human rights law engaged, the UN mechanisms available and the role of a draft UN resolution.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
6 hours ago5 min read


GHRTF Legal Briefing: Massacres of Orthodox Christians in Arsi Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia
GHRTF legal briefing 1 of 5: the reported killings of Orthodox Christians in Merti and Shirka districts, Arsi Zone, Oromia, on 20 and 24 October 2026, the human rights law engaged, the UN mechanisms available and the role of a draft UN resolution.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
6 hours ago5 min read


Sudan: UN Fact-Finding Mission Warns External Support Networks Are Fuelling the War and Endangering El Obeid
On 28 October 2026, the UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan told the General Assembly that foreign weapons, fighters and logistics continue to sustain the war.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
2 days ago5 min read


Right to Development: UN Special Rapporteur Urges a Shift From War Economies to a Peace Economy
On 30 October 2026, UN Special Rapporteur Surya Deva told the Third Committee that States and companies should move from funding war economies to investing in peace.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
2 days ago4 min read


Toxics and Human Rights: UN Special Rapporteur Presents a Thirty-Year Review of the Mandate to the Third Committee
On 29 October 2026, UN Special Rapporteur Bethanie Carney Almroth presented a report reviewing thirty years of the toxics and human rights mandate.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
3 days ago4 min read


Russian Federation: UN Special Rapporteur Reports a Strategy of Fear Against Dissent at Home and Abroad
On 26 October 2026, UN Special Rapporteur Mariana Katzarova presented her report on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation to the General Assembly's Third Committee.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
6 days ago4 min read


Freedom of Religion or Belief: UN Special Rapporteur Presents Report on Funeral Rights in Exceptional Circumstances
On 22 October 2026, UN Special Rapporteur Nazila Ghanea presented her interim report on funeral rights in exceptional circumstances to the General Assembly's Third Committee.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
6 days ago4 min read


Enforced Disappearances: UN Experts Report Decade-High Caseload as Mexico Rejects Article 34 Finding
On 20 October 2026, the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and the Committee on Enforced Disappearances briefed the Third Committee, reporting the highest annual number of new cases in a decade and the first use of the Convention's article 34 procedure.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
7 days ago5 min read


Right to Health: UN Special Rapporteur Calls Access to Justice a Precondition for Health
On 22 October 2026, UN Special Rapporteur Mariângela Simão presented a report to the General Assembly's Third Committee on the justiciability of the right to health, stating that effective remedies and accountability are what make the right enforceable.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
Oct 246 min read


Disability Rights: UN Special Rapporteur Warns Humanitarian Reform Risks Reversing Gains on Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities
On 23 October 2026, UN Special Rapporteur Heba Hagrass presented a report to the General Assembly's Third Committee on inclusive humanitarian assistance, warning that disability inclusion commitments may be weakened unless explicit safeguards are built into ongoing humanitarian reforms.

Global Human Rights Taskforce
Oct 247 min read
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