GENEVA (27 June 2023) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) found that Cambodia’s lack of action to protect a rural woman rights defender from forced eviction...

GENEVA (25 January 2023) – The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has issued a guidance note to clarify States’ obligations regarding the access to, use of and control over land...

Women’s rights to land and other productive resources are essential to realizing their rights to equality and to an adequate standard of living, among many other human rights. Women’s secure access to...

Español GENEVA (29 June 2020) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on Monday added her voice to the wave of international and national calls on the Government of Israel not...

GENEVA (26 June 2020) – A UN human rights expert has urged the European Union to use its “economic weight, diplomatic expertise and aid, trade and investment leverage” to forestall looming Israeli...

GENEVA (16 June 2020) – The agreement by the new coalition Government of Israel to annex significant parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank after 1 July would violate a cornerstone principle of...

GENEVA (1 May 2020) – An independent UN human rights expert warned today that the new Israeli coalition government's plan to proceed with annexing significant parts of the occupied West Bank...

GENEVA (30 April 2020) – A group of UN experts* urged the Philippines government not to discriminate against indigenous peoples in favour of business interests and when enforcing anti-COVID19 measures...

GENEVA (2 March 2020) – An independent expert appointed by the Human Rights Council said Israel’s recent announcement that it planned to build more than 8,000 settlement housing units in the occupied...