The Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. The system...

The UN Human Rights Report 2022 presents the progress achieved in 2022 against the targets set out in the OHCHR Management Plan 2018-2021, which was extended through 2023, and includes an overview of...

French 31 May 2019 Members of the press, ladies and gentlemen, I am addressing you today at the conclusion of my official visit to Togo, which I undertook at the invitation of the Government from 27...

GENEVA (31 May 2019) ‑ A UN expert who visited Julian Assange in a London prison says he fears his human rights could be seriously violated if he is extradited to the United States and condemned the...

French LOME (31 May 2019) – Many children in Togo remain victims of the worst forms of child labour as domestic servants in private homes, in agricultural fields or in the mining sector, the UN...

ROUNDUP Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Botswana, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Malta, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Tonga GENEVA (31 May 2019) - The Committee on the Rights of the Child this...

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur evaluates the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the context of the current progress in political, peace, security and denuclearization efforts in the Korean Peninsula.

Summary The report follows up on official visits undertaken by Mr Kaye to Japan and Turkey in 2016, and those taken by his predecessors on the mandate to Honduras in 2012, Israel and the occupied...