GENEVA (28 December 2023) – A UN report released today details the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, after 7 October 2023, and calls on...

The UN Human Rights Office is very concerned by the widespread violence, and allegations of unnecessary or disproportionate use of force, including the use of firearms, by police during protests in...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk deplores the lethal use of force against protesters in several cities in Chad, including killings by live ammunition. Our Office has also received...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined 10 th to 12 th periodic reports of the United States of America, with Committee Experts...

I am alarmed by the killing of at least nine protesters by security forces in Sudan yesterday - including a 15-year-old child - even after the police had announced they would not use lethal force to...

The Myanmar junta is committing gross human rights violations against the people of Myanmar.

GENEVA (7 May 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tom Andrews, today welcomed the call by a broad number of civil society organizations to impose an arms...

Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 16 November 2020 Excellencies, Thank you for inviting me to this virtual meeting of States Parties to the Mine Ban Convention...

In this report, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights clarifies the scope of goods to be considered when discussing diversion of arms and unregulated or illicit arms transfers, and highlights how these practices have a gendered impact on the human rights of women and girls.

The publication of the United Nations Human Rights Guidance on the Use of Less Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement provides concise and user-friendly guidelines, outlining international norms and...