Reem Alsalem
@unsrvaw
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
1/2 I am pleased to announce that my report on violence against mothers (A/HRC/62/49) which I presented to the UN Human Rights Council in June 2026 has now been issued. It is available in all of the UN official languages on my mandate's webpage: www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
لقد نشرتُ الدعوة لتقديم المساهمات تمهيدًا لزيارتي الرسمية إلى المملكة العربية #السعودية، والمقرر أن تُجرى في الفترة من 8 إلى 18 تشرين الثاني/نوفمبر 2026. وآخر موعد لتقديم المساهمات هو 15 أيلول/سبتمبر 2026 www.ohchr.org/ar/calls-for...
The segment in my press conference of the 25th of June 2026 following my interactive dialogue at #HRC in which i speak to my engagement and positions on violence committed on and since 7th October 2023 can be found here:
2/4 I had of course responded to Ms. Gritzewsky in the 8 minutes window given to me to react to the more than 90 speakers from States and NGOs that had taken the floor over two days at #HRC62.
Pleased to be taking part in this important event tomorrow, the 22nd of May 2026 to speak to the issue of women that were sexually exploited during World War II, otherwise known as "Comfort Women". Join us if you can and are interested.
5/5 As the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights did not allow me to publish this document on my website, I am posting the text of this document that ANTRA had circulated.
Looking forward to speaking about the emerging forms of violence at #CSW70 on the 10th of March 2026. Join us or tune in if you can
Pleased to share the call for input for my upcoming report to the 81st session of the #UNGA on violence against older women. The deadline is 10 April 2026. www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for... The call can be found in English, French, Spanish and Arabic on the same page.
Join us if you can! Join the next @WHO EPI-WIN webinar on 1 Dec 2025, 13:00 CET as we #UNiTE to end #DigitalViolence. Digital attacks on women—doxxing, deepfakes, harassment—are rising in emergencies, undermining staff safety+access to service. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/48mp8ZY 🔗 Webpage: bit.ly/4oDWyJX
A group of UN expert mechanisms dedicated our statement on the international day of the elimination of violence against women #IDEVAW to the need to ensure the effective access of women and girls to justice. Read it here 👇 www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Join us for side event I am co-sponsoring on #surrogacy as a form of #VAWG at #UNGA80 led by Italy's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York When: 8th of October Time: 1:15 -2:30 p.m. NY time Where: In person: Conference Room 6, UNHQ, NY Online: UN web TV👇 webtv.un.org/en/asset/k11...
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/...
What is preventing governments, particularly in the neighbourhood, from sending their navies together to break the siege and deliver aid, … to open all land, sea and air borders all at once? Do it! Now!
Attached is the statement I have sent to Geneva Solutions today on their the article they published on the 26th of June entitled. Campaigners warn it's anti-gender rhetoric. It has refused to grant me a right of reply.
Pleased the #HRC renewed the mandate for another three years - so till June 2028.
Join the zoom call of the Platform of Independent Expert Mechanisms on Discrimination and Violence against Women (EDVAW Platform) entitled: Women on Peace and Security (#WPS) 15th Anniversary: Reflections and Recommendations.
Good discussions and proposal on improving criminal justice including for women and girls. Thank you to our host and all interlocutors i have met with for their hospitality and for generously sharing their insights and wisdoms with me. It is always a pleasure to be back in #Pakistan.
Dear John Oliver. I was approached by Dee Brent with questions ahead of the segment on sport you are reportedly planning to air tomorrow on @lastweektonight1.bsky.social. This is what i had sent for your consideration.
Today is mother’s day in the Arab World. I think of my dear mother and all mothers, but particularly Palestinian mothers, who are going through a hell like no other, and whose lives and hopes have been decimated without mercy, particularly in Gaza for more than 16 months.
Ahead of #CSW69, the 7 international and regional mechanisms on ending discrimination and violence against women and girls (EDAW platform) sent the Member States of the CSW a position paper on #Beijing30. www.ohchr.org/en/edvaw/edv...
Many thanks to Judge Marko Bošnjak, President of the European Court of Human Rights and an esteemed group of women judges of the Court for receiving me and for the very fruitful conversation our respective areas of work. I look forward to furthering my engagement with the court on #VAWG.
Though i will not be able to participate in person, sending a recording of my remarks to this important side event on “women’s rights in #Egypt happening today ahead of the country’s UPR review. Thank you to the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights for the kind invitation.
Posting here the tweet I issued this morning on the upcoming deadline for the call for input for my thematic report to the #HRC59 as well as the addendum and my comment on the attacks launched on the subject and framing of my report.