Reem Alsalem
@unsrvaw.bsky.social
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls
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...
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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...
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...
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...
October 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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...
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...
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...
September 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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...
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/...
docs.un.org/ar/A/HRC/59/...
August 25, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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/...
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/...
August 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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!
July 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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.
July 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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.
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.
July 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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.
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.
April 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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.
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.
April 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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.
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.
March 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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.
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...
www.ohchr.org/en/edvaw/edv...
March 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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...
www.ohchr.org/en/edvaw/edv...
February 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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.
January 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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.
Thank you to the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights for the kind invitation.
January 27, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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.
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.
January 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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.