GENEVA (15 December 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today hailed Chile’s Supreme Court judgement on Operation Condor – a notorious campaign coordinated among South America’s...

GENEVA (27 November 2023) – Chilean authorities must take urgent steps to ensure justice and full reparations for victims who suffered serious human rights violations during the 2019-2020 mass...

SANTIAGO (26 October 2023) – Chile has made remarkable progress to embrace human rights, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards said today, concluding a visit to the country that...

GENEVA (13 October 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Alice Jill Edwards, will conduct an official visit to Chile from 16 to 27...

GENEVA (22 September 2023) – A UN expert today welcomed the Chilean President’s public apology to a school teacher who was discriminated against in 2007 on grounds of her sexual orientation. “This...

Video message by Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 22-23 June 2023 Thank you for the opportunity to address you on such an important issue. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and...

SANTIAGO (12 May 2023) – Chile faces a daunting series of inter-connected environmental crises that violate human rights, including the fundamental right to live in a clean, healthy and sustainable...

GENEVA (2 May 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, David R. Boyd, will visit Chile from 3 to 12 May 2023. The visit will be Boyd’s first to a country in Latin America...

At the age of 10, Juliette De Rivero organized her first protest against discrimination in her school. Years later, she’s the UN Human Rights representative in Colombia and uses her voice to...

GENEVA (2 September 2022) – Chile’s referendum for a new constitution on Sunday will provide an opportunity to recognise the right to adequate housing in its domestic legal order, a UN expert said...