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Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, U.N. special rapporteur on protecting human rights while countering terrorism, told a U.N. news conference that when rules of international humanitarian law are breached, such as…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, U.N. Special Rapporteur, was cited in a U.N. human rights report that was recently was given an addendum. In the report, concern was expressed to the Indian government regarding “…

Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights, has called on the Biden administration to stop the United Arab Emirates from forcibly repatriating Ravil Mingazov to Russia in…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, the UN’s Special Rapporteur, spoke with TRT World in a wide-ranging Q & A interview. In it, she explained the impact of Prevent, one of the four components of the…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was interviewed in the New York Times about the United States' hopes to repatriate a family of 10 from camps in Syria. A Kurdish-led militia that is battling the Islamic…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Clement Nyaletoss Voulue were quoted in an article in The Bahrat Express News about the convictions of Venezuelan activists ahead of elections. The two UN experts…

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin's recent election to the the International Commission of Jurists was covered by Irish Legal News. Prof. Ní Aoláin will be serving a 5 year term.

Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and co-authors wrote about the need for Sweden to bring its citizens home from camps in Syria. 

Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was interviewed on Radio Canada this week about Canadian children held in detention camps in Syria.

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was quoted by The Intercept on the release of a current prisoner at the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay. Having faced harsh and "brutal conditions" upon his return to Alergia,…

U.S. News extensively covered Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin's trip to Syrian detention camps as U.N. rapporteur on the protection of rights while countering terrorism. Professor Ní Aoláin explained, “The taking of…

U.S. Senator Dick Durbin endorsed the report on Guantanamo Bay released by Prof. Fionnuala Ní Aoláin as U.N. special rapporteur. Senator Durbin wrote, "The special rapporteur’s report should also serve as a wakeup…