UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk welcomes the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in India, which will reserve one third of seats in national and state parliaments for women. This...

GENEVA (4 September 2023) – UN experts* today raised the alarm about reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in the Northeast State of Manipur in India, including alleged acts of sexual...

GENEVA (21 August 2023) – India’s persistent detention of human rights defender GN Saibaba is an inhumane and senseless act, a UN expert said today. “GN Saibaba is a long-standing defender of the...

AFTERNOON 27 March 2023 The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted the Universal Periodic Review outcomes of India, Finland, and the Philippines. The Council adopted the Universal Periodic Review...

GENEVA (24 March 2023) – India must immediately end its crackdown against Kashmiri human rights defenders, a UN expert said today, after renowned Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez was...

Item 2: Annual Report and Oral Update by the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of his Office and recent human rights developments Mr President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates...

GENEVA (22 November 2022) – The arrest and detention of Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez has a chilling effect on civil society, rights activists and journalists in the region, UN experts...

Hindi version (PDF) GENEVA (4 November 2022) – India’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on...

Distinguished President, Excellencies, Colleagues and friends, The United Nations, and this Council, stand for the human rights of the world's peoples: their rights to participate in decisions, to...

GENEVA (21 February 2022) – Relentless misogynistic and sectarian attacks online against journalist Rana Ayyub must be promptly and thoroughly investigated by the Indian authorities and the judicial...