GENEVA (17 January 2022) – Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human...
GENEVA (14 January 2022) ̶ UN human rights experts* expressed serious concern over the United Kingdom's Nationality and Borders Bill, which they said breaches the country's obligations under...
“Verdicts such as today’s represent much-needed progress towards achieving justice for victims and survivors of war crimes in Syria,” the panel said GENEVA (13 January 2022) – The UN Independent...
GENEVA (11 January 2022) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Kazakhstan authorities and security forces to halt their unrestrained use of force, including lethal force, against protesters...
GENEVA (23 December 2021) – UN human rights experts* today called on the international community to take urgent steps to clear the way for humanitarian aid in Afghanistan in order to prevent an...
GENEVA (23 December 2021) – The international community must hold Israel to account for its 54-year occupation of Palestine, a UN human rights expert said today, five years after the UN Security...
MANILA, 20 December 2021—The Philippines-United Nations (UN) Joint Programme on human rights took its first major step today at the Steering Committee meeting of government and civil society partners...
DHAKA (19 December 2021) – Speaking at the end of his first official visit to the country, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, thanked and commended the...
Niamey 16 décembre 2021 Je tiens d’abord à remercier le gouvernement de la République du Niger pour l’invitation faite à mon mandat de visiter le pays du 6 au 16 décembre 2021. Je viens de conclure...
Niamey (16 December 2021) I would first like to thank the government of the Republic of Niger for the invitation extended to my mandate to visit the country from December 6 to 16, 2021. I have just...