In its resolution 47/3, the Human Rights Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to prepare a report, examining in detail the key challenges that civil society faced in the context of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, both online and offline, and also examining best practices.

GENEVA (24 June 2022) – UN human rights experts* have called on the international community to bring an end to the so-called “war on drugs” and promote drug policies that are firmly anchored in human...

PANEL ON GOOD GOVERNANCE IN PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS DURING AND AFTER COVID-19 PANDEMIC (HRC res. 45/9) Distinguished President, Excellencies, Dear Participants, As a fast-moving global health...

GENEVA (20 June 2022) – UN human rights experts* today commended an announcement made by the Malaysian government that it will abolish the country’s mandatory death penalty and encouraged Parliament...

GENEVA (20 June 2022) – Governments must adopt a holistic response to violence by addressing the ways it manifests in different contexts a UN expert said today, urging States to repeal and denounce...

GENEVA (17 June 2022) – Discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity deprive countless people around the world of their right to the highest attainable standard of...

The present report is the fifth report prepared for the General Assembly by the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity, Obiora Chinedu Okafor. In the report, submitted...

Summary The present study was prepared in accordance with resolution 48/12, in which the Council requested the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct a detailed study on ways to...

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...