Persian GENEVA (13 November 2020) – UN human rights experts* today welcomed the temporary release on 7 November 2020 of Iranian woman human rights defender and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, and urged...

Русский Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 13 November 2020 We remain deeply concerned at the situation in Belarus more than three...

9th Forum on Business and Human Rights 16-18 November 2020 GENEVA (13 November 2020) – The world’s largest global conference on business and human rights, convened by the United Nations from 16-18...

Preliminary findings of the visit to Qatar Doha (12 November 2020), the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Ms...

العربية GENEVA (12 November 2020) – Israel must release a former Gaza aid worker who has been in prison for more than four years without a verdict, or immediately grant him a fair trial, UN human...

GENEVA (12 November 2020) – Independent technical experts must be granted immediate access to an abandoned, rusting oil tanker that threatens Yemen and the Red Sea with ecological catastrophe, UN...

DOHA (12 November 2020) – The UN Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures and human rights, Alena Douhan, today urged the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Kingdom of...

GENEVA (11 November 2020) — The UN women’s rights committee today called on governments to pursue all appropriate means to eliminate trafficking in women and girls, highlighting the increasing use of...

GENEVA (11 November 2020) – Human rights experts* today expressed concern that the Serbian authorities are using oversight powers designed to target the financing of terrorism to obtain banking...

Español 11 November 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has shaken our world. We will recover. But to recover rapidly, and well, we need to learn the lessons of COVID-19. The pandemic has acted like a heat...