Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 74/137, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to submit at its seventy-fifth session a report on the...

29 October 2020 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today held an online meeting during which it heard from two of its members as well as a joint statement by non...

26 October 2020 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its seventy-seventh online session. It heard a statement by Mahamane Cissé-Gouro, Chief of the...

Geneva (23 October 2020) – Denmark should suspend the controversial sale of apartment houses in a Copenhagen “ghetto” until its courts can determine whether laws permitting the sale violate residents’...

Portuguese (Word) GENEVA (21 October 2020) – A UN human rights expert said today that Brazil has a unique opportunity to recognise the right to reparations for individuals who as children were...

NEW YORK (19 October 2020) – The UN's expert on freedom of assembly today called for accelerated efforts to protect and assist women-led organisations and social movements during COVID-19 and beyond....

NEW YORK (20 October 2020) – Five years after 193 countries pledged to "leave no one behind" by curbing inequality, a UN expert warned today that discrimination and entrenched inequalities still exist...

Opening Address by Michelle Bachelet, High Commissioner for Human Rights 12 October 2020 Excellencies, It is my pleasure to welcome you to this session of the Intergovernmental Working Group, which...

GENEVA (9 October 2020) – On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child, UN human rights experts* have highlighted the vulnerabilities of girls in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and...

45th session of the Human Rights Council 1 October 2020 Madam President, Excellencies, Thank you for this opportunity to update the Council on our work to implement resolution 43/1, of 17 June, 2020...