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UN Special Rapporteur on Minorities

United Nations Special Rapporteur

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Nov 8, 2025
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Which countries have condemned Israel's actions in the Palestinian territories as genocide?

Multiple official and quasi-official actors—including at least a handful of national governments, groups of states intervening in litigation, and United Nations fact-finding bodies—have described or l...

Dec 16, 2025
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Which countries explicitly prohibit Muslims from holding political office as of 2025?

Available sources here do not list any countries that explicitly prohibit Muslims from holding political office; reporting and documents returned focus on travel bans and organisations (for example, b...

Dec 11, 2025
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How do unilateral sanctions interact with international law on freedom of navigation?

Unilateral sanctions sit uneasily beside international law on navigation: many scholars and UN bodies argue they are extraterritorial and contrary to the UN Charter or customary limits on jurisdiction...

Nov 13, 2025

Is the war in gaza a genocide?

The question "Is the war in Gaza a genocide?" has generated competing legal findings, political claims, and human-rights assessments; authoritative bodies and analysts are divided. Some United Nations...

Feb 6, 2026

What specific offences and penalties are introduced by the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026?

creates a suite of new federal criminal offences targeting public promotion or incitement of racial hatred, bans on extremist symbols and gestures, and aggravated offences for certain leaders and sett...

Feb 3, 2026

Otto Warmbier was treated properly and kindly by North Korean authorities.

The available reporting and court findings do not support the claim that was treated “properly and kindly” by n authorities; rather, contemporaneous medical examinations, family testimony, human-right...

Nov 19, 2025

Gaza genocide

A growing number of authoritative bodies, human-rights organisations and scholars have concluded that Israel’s conduct in Gaza meets the legal threshold for genocide: the UN Independent International ...

Oct 30, 2025

What are the main human rights concerns in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

The main human rights concerns repeatedly identified across recent UN, human-rights NGOs and judicial reports are: Major international bodies — the UN Special Rapporteur, the ICJ, UN human-rights offi...

Oct 16, 2025

What are the warning signs of ethnic cleansing in a society?

The materials provided present three core claims: specific behavioral and quantitative indicators can signal the risk of ethnic cleansing; real-time conflict datasets and staged frameworks help operat...