In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to Council resolution 44/10, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities provides an overview of the activities undertaken in 2022, and presents a thematic study on reimagining services in the twenty-first century to give effect to the right of persons with disabilities to live independently and be included in the community.

World Leprosy Day - 29 January 2023 GENEVA (26 January 2023) – Children and teenagers affected by leprosy (also known as Hansen’s disease) remain hidden, invisible, forgotten and dehumanised, a UN...

GENEVA (19 January 2023) – A court in South Africa has admitted several UN experts as amici curiae in a class action suit filed by alleged victims of mining pollution in Zambia’s central Kabwe...

Summary In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 49/12, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights examines the main elements of support...

The present report, prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 49/25, contains an examination of the human rights implications of and good practices and key challenges in affordable, timely, equitable and universal access to and distribution of quality, safe, efficacious and affordable coronavirus disease (COVID - 19) vaccines and the impact on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 29 January 2003 607th Meeting* (PM) Issues Addressed Include Employment, Wages, Access to Education, Marriage and Family Law Since ratifying...

CRC 32nd session 28 January 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child examined today a second periodic report of Iceland, querying a Government delegation on such topics as accident prevention for...