Summary The present report is submitted in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 45/18. In it, the High Commissioner explores the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and...

High-level panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming Secretary-General, Distinguished President of the General Assembly, Distinguido Presidente del Consejo, Dear Director-General Tedros Adhanom...

MORNING The Human Rights Council this morning started its high-level segment, hearing statements from the Presidents of Tunisia, Lithuania, Colombia, Marshall Islands and Venezuela, as well as from...

GENEVA (28 February 2022) – At the end of this month, the House of Lords will be discussing the amendments introduced to the Nationality and Border Bill. Since the draft law was first introduced on...

OPENING The Human Rights Council this morning opened its forty-ninth regular session, hearing statements from the President of Switzerland, the President of the General Assembly, the United Nations...

GENEVA (28 February 2022) - UN human rights experts* today called on the Russian Federation to immediately end its aggression against Ukraine and call off its unnecessary and unprovoked military...

GENEVA (28 February 2022) – The recent decision by a Spanish court granting custody of a seven-year-old girl to her father, despite allegations of sexual abuse against him, places the child at grave...

GENEVA (28 February 2022) — The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Monday issued its findings on the Dominican Republic, Gabon, Lebanon, Panama, Peru, Senegal...

GENEVA (28 February 2022) - UN human rights experts* today urged Madagascar to take immediate action to protect people with albinism amid reports of ongoing attacks and killings in the country....

The Human Right Committee this morning opened its one hundred and thirty-fourth session, during which it will examine the reports of Bolivia, Cambodia, Iraq, Israel, Qatar and the Russian Federation...