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Systemic impunity and economic interests are killing human rights defenders one after the other, says UN expert: Brazil
Removing barriers to the rights of persons with albinism critical to improving lives, says UN expert: Lesotho
Türk sounds alarm amid rising tensions in Rakhine: Myanmar
Bangladeshi workers must be protected from exploitation and criminalisation, say UN experts: Malaysia
UN experts: Cambodia must end harassment of human rights defenders
Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Applaud Qatar’s Memorial for Enslaved Africans, Raise Questions on Mandatory HIV Testing…
In Dialogue with Honduras, Experts of the Committee against Torture Praise Bill on Reparation for Victims of Human Rights Violations, Ask about…
UN expert calls on Guatemala to seize the opportunity to appoint exemplary apex courts
UN expert calls for strengthening social cohesion and international solidarity: Denmark and Greenland
UN experts deeply concerned over ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza
In Dialogue with Austria, Experts of the Committee against Torture Welcome the Establishment of the Police Complaints Office, Ask about High Solitary…
Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Note Albania’s Legislation to Combat Racism in Sport, Ask about Asylum Agreement…
UN experts condemn destruction of judicial infrastructure, call for protection of justice operators: Israel/Gaza
Türk urges all States to act over crises in Gaza, West Bank
UN Committee urges end to ethnic violence and hate speech, calls for immediate ceasefire: Sudan
Israel and Iran must de-escalate conflict to protect human rights, warn UN experts
UN expert on the right to healthy environment to visit the Maldives
Committee against Torture Opens Seventy-Ninth Session in Geneva and Re-Elects Claude Heller as its Chairperson
Türk conducts official visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
One year on, Türk warns of further escalation: Sudan conflict
UN experts deplore use of purported AI to commit ‘domicide’ in Gaza, call for reparative approach to rebuilding: Gaza
Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Commend San Marino’s Progress in Establishing a National Human Rights Institute, Ask…
UN torture prevention body to visit Albania
UN expert on freedom of peaceful assembly and association to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina
UN Committee against Torture to review Austria, Honduras, Azerbaijan, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia and Finland
Permanent Forum on People of African Descent to hold its third session (16-19 April)
As conflict enters its second year, UN Fact-Finding Mission says warring parties must halt fighting, protect civilians, allow free flow of aid: Sudan
UN experts alarmed by lack of protection for minority girls from forced religious conversions and forced marriage: Pakistan
Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Commend Mexico on Implementing Previous Recommendations, Ask about Implications of the Mayan…
UN expert on rights of people with albinism to visit Lesotho
UN torture prevention body to revisit Honduras
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Opens its One Hundred and Twelfth Session in Geneva
Human Rights Council Adopts Decision on Remote Participation Modalities for Hybrid Meetings, Appoints 14 Special Procedure Mandate Holders, and Concludes Fifty-Fifth Regular Session
UN expert on situation of human rights defenders to visit Brazil
UN expert urges Chile to prioritise cultural rights
Human Rights Council Adopts Five Resolutions, including a Text Calling for an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza, Urging States to Prevent the Continued…
Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk ahead of the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda
UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to review Mexico, San Marino, Albania, Qatar and Moldova
New law risks undermining work of NGOs: Kyrgyzstan
UN expert on international solidarity to visit Denmark and Greenland
Vital need to ensure humanitarian aid and protect humanitarian workers: Occupied Palestinian Territory/Israel
Kyrgyzstan’s new “foreign representatives” law risks undermining work of NGOs
UN expert’s visit to focus on safe drinking water and sanitation: Canada
Human Rights Council Adopts Seven Resolutions, Extends Mandates on the Human Rights of Persons with Albinism, Iran and Myanmar
Oleg Orlov trial is an abuse of legal system for political purposes, says UN expert: Russia
Human Rights Council Adopts 14 Texts, Extends Mandates on South Sudan, a Clean Environment, the Right to Privacy, and on Cultural Rights
Türk dismayed at ruling upholding discriminatory anti-gay law: Uganda
Egypt must halt executions, warn UN experts

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