Parliaments and Human Rights: A Self-Assessment Toolkit was jointly prepared by OHCHR and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). The toolkit seeks to help parliaments better integrate human rights into...

The briefer provides examples of how international human rights mechanisms and courts and tribunals have helped people find justice, in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

More than four decades after its adoption, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women remains an essential and ambitious guide for achieving gender equality across...

GENEVA (9 December 2022) – Extraordinary progress has been made to secure the rights of all persons since the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, UN experts said today, as the world...

This Practical Guide, jointly published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Equal Rights Trust (ERT), sets out in detail the content of comprehensive...

Special Procedures Are Ready to Contribute to Make the Call to Action for Human Rights a Reality, Chairperson of Coordination Committee of Special Procedures Tells Human Rights Council 17 March 2021...

ROUNDUP 12 February 2021 The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution in which it called urgently for the immediate and unconditional release of all persons arbitrarily detained in...

In accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 41/24, the Social Forum was held in Geneva on 8 and 9 October 2020. Participants considered good practices, success stories, lessons learned and...

Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 14 October 2020 Distinguished Chair, Excellencies, I am honoured to present the report of my Office, A/75/36, pursuant to General...

Human Rights Council, 45th Session Agenda Item 5 Geneva, 30 September 2020 Madam President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to discuss, in an interactive...