The final edited thematic report A/HRC/59/47: Sex-based violence against women and girls: new frontiers and emerging issues is now available in the 6 languages of the United Nations 👇 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

My remarks at the High-level meeting convened by the President of the hashtag#UNGA80 on the 30th Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women ( #Beijing30). My speech starts at minute 45:00 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k13...

Pleased to have contributed to discussion on the expiry of the UN General Assembly Resolution deadline for #Israel to end its unlawful occupation of #Palestine with no compliance law4palestine.org/as-un-deadli...

On September 19 I filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v. Hecox. Preserving female-only sports categories is essential to protect fairness, safety, privacy & equality for women & girls.   Read: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

I am pleased to share the full guidance note on the concept of #consent in relation to violence against women and girls (#VAWG): www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Glad to have participated in this important seminar on Domestic Violence & the Hague AbductionConvention: Safeguarding Survivors. Thank you to the organizers particularly @filiacharity.bsky.social HagueMums, Global ARRK, Sanctuary for Families, and EuropaRevibra.

More than 30 independent human rights experts urge the United Nations Member States to comply with their obligations under international law, take concrete actions to stop Israel’s attacks against the Palestinians and end its unlawful occupation. www.ohchr.org/en/statement...

The letter sent the interim government of #Syria on the continued commission of serious human rights violations against Alawite women and girls i since February 2025 until the present is now public : spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas... We did not receive a response to this letter.

UN experts urge #Israel to cease all threats of harm against the #GlobalSumudFlotilla and ensure it proceeds unhindered in its mission to deliver humanitarian aid to the civilian population in #Gaza. All flotilla passengers must be protected. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

UN expert on violence against women and girls @unsrvaw.bsky.social says #Kuwait must strengthen implementation of reforms to end all forms of violence against women, including sexual harassment and digital violence. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

بالنظر إلى المناقشات التي أجريتها مع مختلف الجهات المعنية في #الكويت، بما في ذلك مع وسائل الإعلام خلال المؤتمر الصحفي، أود أن أعيد مشاركة الرابط الخاص بالتقرير الذي قدمته إلى الجمعية العامة للأمم المتحدة في عام 2023،

📣📣📣 Mark your diaries: 25 September 1700 BST Reem AlSalem will be discussing her #UK report on #VAWG with me & Liz Kelly Join us to hear about the report & to discuss what needs to doing now Registration link coming next week #unsrvaw @unsrvaw.bsky.social @profLizKelly.bsky.social #cwasu

' #Sudan is facing not just a military crisis, it’s an economic war and Women are at its centre,' said Sudanese researcher Mariam Moussa of Shared Planet. www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...

UN experts urge #Israel to cease all threats of harm against the #GlobalSumudFlotilla and ensure it proceeds unhindered in its mission to deliver humanitarian aid to the civilian population in #Gaza. All flotilla passengers must be protected. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

#Kuwait must strengthen implementation of reforms to end violence against women, says Special Rapporteur www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... مقررة الخاصة للأمم المتحدة: على #الكويت تعزيز تنفيذ الإصلاحات لإنهاء العنف ضد المرأة www.ohchr.org/ar/press-rel...

#Brazil: @unsrvaw.bsky.social Reem Alsalem welcomes a new bill to fully repeal laws defining “parental alienation” – a disputed custody concept often misused to dismiss abuse claims by women and children – from the statute books. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie has filed a discharge petition to force the disclosure of Justice Department investigative files related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

This is deeply disturbing. The impunity for these misogynistic attacks on women, including women in politics must end for such crimes to end!

We commemorate today a grim milestone: The 8th year of the #Rohingyagencoicide. In my last thematic report (A/HRC/59/47) to #HRC59, I referred to reproductive violence used as a genocidal tool, by preventing births within a targeted group or to forcibly alter the group’s demographic composition.

التقرير النهائي لزيارتي إلى دولة #الإمارات_العربية_المتحدة التي قمت بها في ديسمبر 2024، متوفر الآن بجميع لغات الأمم المتحدة. وهذه هي النسخة النهائية باللغة العربية للتقرير docs.un.org/ar/A/HRC/59/...

The final official report of my visit to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (#UK) carried out in February 2024 is now available in all UN languages. Here is the official version in English: docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/...

#UnitedStates: New round of US sanctions against 2 judges & 2 deputy prosecutors of #ICC are a direct assault against the independence of the tribunal and a devastating blow to victims worldwide, say UN experts. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

My upcoming report on “The different manifestations of violence against women and girls in the context of #surrogacy” (A/80/158) and which I will present to the #UNGA in October 2025 is now available in the six UN languages on this link: docs.un.org/A/80/158 .

The writing has been on the wall for months! The key question is whether the UN and the international community at large will move beyond documenting the accelerating and hellish annihilation of the Palestinians in Gaza and beyond and their ethnic cleansing to actually stopping it! t.co/rpwSjtMSwd

UN experts alarmed by a wave of armed attacks on #Syria's #Druze communities in & around Suweida Governorate since 13 July 2025, with reports of killings, enforced disappearances and sexual violence against women and girls. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

The New Arab meets UN expert Reem Alsalem, who says Israel is using gender-based violence as a genocidal tool against Palestinian women and girls in Gaza ⤵️

The suicide ruling for Dr Ban Ziyad’s mysterious death in Basra has been met with fury and allegations of a judicial cover-up, igniting fresh scrutiny of Iraq's failure to address violence against women ⬇️

An absolute must read! open.substack.com/pub/mackenzi...

“What we need is a masculinity that is pleased that women are flourishing. Men who understand this as a strengthening of humanity, and recognise that it contributes to the conditions of their own advancement. I suspect this would be highly attractive to women.." www.grantwyeth.com/p/the-elepha...

While i would have liked to join this statement www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... and agree with much of its content. i could not do so for two reasons:

I join my colleague in expressing alarm at this sentence #Iran

Exclusive interview by Julie Bindel with #SarahSurviving on her battle to access single sex rape crisis services in #EastSussex www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

www.deseret.com/opinion/2025... Thank you to the author Valerie Hudson for this article. I take this opportunity to clarify that States and other stakeholders are not obligated to accept our findings and recommendations.

reduxx.info/exclusive-br... The decision by an EU country to grant refugee status to this Brazilian woman is significant for more than one reason. To begin with, it is the first of its kind (at least that we know of).

UN experts urge #Israel to immediately restore the UN humanitarian system to prevent starvation in #Gaza & ensure unimpeded access for @unrwa.org & @unocha.org. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

UN experts call for dismantling of the #Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, condemning the exploitation of humanitarian relief for covert military & geopolitical aims: “Palestinians are paying the ultimate price for failures of the international community” #GHF www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

In #Canada, an international #humanrights expert, J.R. Howell, has filed a formal complaint on the #UnitedNations Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to demand they launch an investigation into violence against #indigenous Women & Girls www.morningstar.com/news/pr-news...

International coalition demands Russia immediately return Ukrainian children listed by Ukraine in June talks. 🧵 1/5 ⬇️ #JointStatementForKids #BringKidsBack

US foreign aid suspension fuelling global humanitarian catastrophe, derailing decades of progress in poverty eradication & leaving the world’s poorest people to die - warn UN experts, urging US to restore funding & recommit to the intl human rights system. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Alarmed by the threats and violence that collective shout have been facing for calling out is doing its job in calling out misogyny and violence against females online. It is the most serious form of online violence against women human rights defenders i have seen a long time.

Excellent news from @worldathletics.org showing how it is done and that when there is a will to safeguard the equality, dignity and safety of women and girls in sport there is a way! worldathletics.org/news/press-r...

I have signed this statement retroactively as I did not see it initially; given its importance and the clear impact these actions are having on Palestinian women in the #WestBank including #EastJerusalem.

Letters sent to the #US and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States by the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, which I joined, is now public. spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBas... No response was received to these letters.

@AJEnglish: Reem Alsalem, United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, explains why Palestinian women and girls are deliberate targets for the Israeli army. https://t.co/mn9igG1nJt

UN experts welcome the ICJ historic recognition that all States have binding obligations under int'l #HumanRights law to protect the climate & environment. Violations entail State responsibility to provide reparations. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

'Bosnia and Herzegovina last night adopted amendments to the Criminal Code of the Federation of #Bosnia and #Herzegovina, which completed a multi-month procedure and brought the law into line with the Istanbul Convention.' #Femicide sarajevotimes.com/femicide-off...