Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights The Hague, 16 May 2019 Your Royal Highness, Mayor Krikke, Ms Thorning Schmidt, Colleagues, Friends, Thank you for inviting me to...

GENEVA (16 May 2019) - The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the third to sixth periodic report of Malta on measures taken to implement the provisions of the...

Committee against Torture 16 May 2019 The Committee against Torture this afternoon discussed follow-up to concluding observations, individual communications, and reprisals under the Convention against...

Spanish GENEVA (16 May 2019) – The UN human rights expert on transitional justice urges the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador not to pass a bill allowing de facto pardons for serious human rights...

In the present report, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 48/141, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights examines how the human rights framework, particularly the rights to health and to social security, can contribute to the conceptualization of universal health coverage and to its implementation.

Summary In the report on his visit to Georgia, from 25 September to 5 October 2018, the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender...

In the present report, the Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice analyses the causes of deprivation of liberty of women from a gender perspective to provide an understanding of the ways in which women are uniquely and disproportionately affected by deprivation of liberty, owing to structural discrimination throughout their life cycle.

Spanish La Paz, 15 May 2019 Introduction I have been in the country for the past ten days at the invitation of the Government of Bolivia to examine the Government’s efforts to realise human rights...