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UN urges de facto authorities to protect media freedom: Afghanistan
Türk reiterates call for ceasefire following grave escalation: Lebanon
UN urges Afghanistan’s de facto authorities to protect media freedom
UN experts call for urgent medical evacuation of critically injured journalist from Gaza
Special Rapporteur on climate change to visit Vanuatu
Call to action: Towards Beijing+30 – UNiTE to end violence against women and girls
UN Group of Experts alarmed by far-reaching change to the Constitution: Nicaragua
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Opens One Hundred and Fourteenth Session in Geneva
UN experts call for immediate end to Russian attacks on Ukraine’s electricity system to avoid risk of nuclear disaster
Support for transitional justice processes critical to building sustainable peace, UN Experts say after Ethiopia mission: South Sudan
Türk urges lawmakers to reject proposed constitutional changes: Nicaragua
UN Human Rights Chief concerned about expansion of mandatory pretrial detention: Mexico
Myanmar amputees under siege by junta landmines, harassment and blockades of prosthetics, say UN experts
UN Committee against Torture publishes findings on Cameroon, Jordan, Kuwait, Mongolia, Namibia and Thailand
UN expert: Russia must urgently grant medical release to gravely ill human rights defender
Concrete actions by Government and companies key to realising an alternative development vision, says UN expert: Honduras
Comment by UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk on abduction of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye
Plastic pollution a global threat to human rights, say UN experts
Call to stop imminent execution: Singapore
UN Human Rights chief urges end to intensifying violence in Port-au-Prince: Haiti
International conference seeks to raise awareness about sanctions, overcompliance and business conduct
Experts call for urgent ban on executions by nitrogen gas in Alabama: United States
UN expert on the right to health to visit Chile
Committee on Enforced Disappearances to visit Colombia
UN experts: Singapore must urgently halt execution of drug offender
UN experts on enforced disappearances visiting Lithuania
Grave concerns over sentencing under National Security Law: Hong Kong
Grim milestone of 1,000 days since Russia launched full-scale armed attack: Ukraine
Urgent need for human rights-based climate action
Special Rapporteur urges Security Council to renew humanitarian exemption to counter-terrorism sanctions
Türk condemns Russian attacks on energy network, renews call for Russian withdrawal: Ukraine
Committee against Torture Discusses Reports on Follow-Up to Concluding Observations, Individual Communications and Reprisals
UN cultural rights expert to visit Lao PDR
UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan commences visit to Addis Ababa for critical talks on transitional justice with African Union
Post-election violence and repression must stop, say UN experts: Mozambique
Countering terrorism and human rights expert to conduct an official visit to Benin
Leaders must show courage to tax the super-rich to rescue 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, say experts: G20
UN expert to assess human rights of LGBT persons: Poland
UN expert: Russia must immediately free doctor Nadezhda Buyanova, imprisoned for anti-war stance
Experts of the Committee against Torture Praise Cameroon’s Efforts to Prevent Gender-Based Violence, Ask about Alleged Violations of Rights of Journalists and…
Committee against Torture Commemorates Fortieth Anniversary of the Convention against Torture
UN expert raises alarm at allegations of torture of former Ecuadorian vice-president Jorge Glas
Comment by UN Human Rights Office Spokesperson Jeremy Laurence on public execution in Afghanistan
Access to justice for victims of trafficking must be strengthened, says Special Rapporteur: Guinea-Bissau
UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war
Experts of the Committee against Torture Commend Mongolia for Committing to Abolish the Death Penalty, Raise Questions on Interrogation Rooms and Extradition Agreements
UN expert on contemporary forms of slavery to visit Australia
Special Rapporteur calls for justice for journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio: Philippines

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