Myanmar’s junta—the State Administration Council (SAC)—is illegal and illegitimate, the UN human rights expert on Myanmar said today. He called for the international community to deny the SAC...

DHAKA/GENEVA (31 January 2023) – Bangladesh must step up efforts to strengthen regulation of the migrant recruitment system to protect migrant workers against exploitation and abuses, a UN expert*...

UN experts* today called for an immediate independent investigation into gross human rights abuses and possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Mali by Government forces and the...

GENEVA (30 January 2023) - The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela today expressed deep concerns about the potential implications of a draft law it...

Date: 30 January 2023 1 From 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine started, to 29 January 2023, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)...

In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to Council resolution 44/10, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities provides an overview of the activities undertaken in 2022, and presents a thematic study on reimagining services in the twenty-first century to give effect to the right of persons with disabilities to live independently and be included in the community.

GENEVA (30 January 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, José Francisco Cali Tzay, will carry out an official visit to Denmark and Greenland from 1 to 10 February 2023...

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Nazila Ghanea, sets out her vision of how she plans to carry out the mandate, undertakes a landscaping exercise of freedom of religion or belief activities and draws out the implications for the mandate, its work and her approach thereto.

TRIPOLI/TUNIS (29 January 2023) – Libyan authorities must take decisive steps to provide justice and redress to the vast number of victims suffering from longstanding violations of human rights and...