The Genocide Convention is the first human rights treaty in the history of the United Nations, adopted on the eve of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Seventy-five years later, the two...

The Genocide Convention is a grave and urgent document. This first human rights treaty in the history of the United Nations, it was adopted on the eve of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

GENEVA (25 May 2023) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today hailed the arrest in South Africa of Fulgence Kayishema, one of last fugitives indicted in connection with the 1994...

Excellencies, Distinguished guests, The haunting images of the Rwandan genocide are still painfully fresh in our minds. Just twenty-nine years ago, unfathomable human tragedy was playing out in this...

This revised edition from the original 2004 version strengthens the widely recognized and highly valued Istanbul Protocol on the effective investigation into and documentation of torture and ill...

GENEVA/NEW YORK (17 June 2022) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Alice Nderitu today expressed their deep alarm about the...

Today we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, a crime of shocking inhumanity that brutally murdered six million Jews, as well as Roma and Sinti people, Slavs, people with disabilities, LGBT...

MORNING 28 June2021 The Human Rights Council this morning held separate interactive dialogues with the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and with the Special...

GENEVA (8 June 2021) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet and Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Prevention of Genocide Alice Wairimu Nderitu on Tuesday welcomed the...

Opening remarks by Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect, Karen Smith May 2021, from 9:00 am to 11:00 am (EST) Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Colleagues and friends, I am honored to...