GENEVA (28 January 2022) – A UN human rights expert today decried the existence of more than 100 laws globally that discriminate against people affected by leprosy, saying it was shameful that...

Greetings. Thank you to the Prince Mahidol Award Foundation and its partners for convening this event. It is a pleasure to be participating. The world is at a critical juncture. We are entering the...

Distinguished panellists, Colleagues and Friends, I am delighted to join this discussion held in conjunction with the Human Rights Council's fourth intersessional meeting for dialogue and cooperation...

Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you, Ambassador Gberie, and congratulations on your appointment as chair of this fourth intersessional meeting for dialogue and cooperation on human rights...

GENEVA (17 January 2022) - Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human rights...

GENEVA (10 January 2022) - On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, UN experts* condemned the facility as a site of “unparalleled...

Commission for Social Development Forty-first Session 21 February 2003 10th Meeting (PM) Also Elects Bureau for Forty-Second Session The Commission for Social Development concluded its forty-first...