NEW YORK (26 October 2023) – Tackling inequities in food, nutrition and related clinical and health outcomes, requires a rights-based approach to food and nutrition, grounded in substantive equality...

Greetings to all of you, and thanks for the work you are doing to reform drug policies around the world. Drug use has taken many lives. But even more lives have been harmed or destroyed by poorly...

GENEVA (17 October 2023) – Continuing violent displacement and threats of further attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip pose a major public health risk and emergency, a UN expert said today after at...

This joint publication by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) aims to support countries embarking on legislative reform...

GENEVA (15 September 2023) – Unilateral sanctions and over-compliance have a detrimental impact on the enjoyment of all aspects of the right to health, a UN expert said today. “Health systems around...

SAN JOSÉ (31 July 2023) – The challenges faced by Costa Rica are not insurmountable and the country could achieve truly universal health care, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health Tlaleng...

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Tlaleng Mofokeng, focuses on food, nutrition and the right to health. She analyses access to food and nutrition and related clinical and health outcomes, and their reflection of power asymmetries, policy and regulatory frameworks.

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the eighth periodic report of Belgium, with Committee Experts commending the State on tremendous progress made in...

GENEVA (3 October 2022) – Women and girls in the Tigray, Afar and Amhar are increasingly vulnerable to abduction and trafficking for sexual exploitation as they flee the conflict in Northern Ethiopia...