Committee on the Rights of the Child Background The extent and magnitude of the triple planetary crisis, comprising the climate emergency, the collapse of biodiversity and pervasive pollution, is an...

As Bangladesh gears up for a general election in January next year, we urge all political parties, their supporters and the security forces to ensure a peaceful, inclusive and safe environment...

We are deeply shocked by the high number of killings over the past week in Brazil, where at least 45 people were killed in different parts of the country during police operations allegedly aimed at...

The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 76/172 on the protection of migrants. In paragraph 22 of the resolution, the Secretary-General was requested to submit to the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council a comprehensive report entitled “Human rights of migrants”, covering all aspects of the implementation of the resolution.

Summary In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to Council resolutions 17/4 and 44/15, the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and...

GENEVA (3 August 2023) – A UN expert today expressed grave concern about a violent attack targeting Haitian Judge Wilner Morin, whose vehicle was fired upon in the capital Port-au-Prince a few months...

Francisco Vera at UN Human Rights HQ During his visit to Geneva in July, 13-year-old Colombian activist Francisco Vera presented the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, with a manifesto...

GENEVA (2 August 2023) – A range of serious human rights violations and severe restrictions on civic and political space affected the credibility of Cambodia’s national elections on 23 July, UN...

30 June 2003 JOINT UNAIDS and OHCHR Discussion on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Opening remarks Bertrand Ramcharan, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights I would like to thank our colleagues at UNAIDS...