Mr President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, The Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine has thrown us back to an archaic era. An era when a neighbouring country’s territory could be attacked...

Council Concludes General Debate on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an enhanced interactive dialogue on the oral updates...

Mr. President, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Distinguished panellists, Excellencies, The human rights challenges faced by the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo are well...

Council Concludes General Debate on the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and Starts General Debate on Racism and Racial Discrimination The Human Rights Council this morning concluded the...

GENEVA/NEW YORK (30 March 2023) – The Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development will hold its seventh session from 3 to 5 April 2023 at UN Headquarters in New York with meetings that will be...

GENEVA (30 March 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Thursday voiced his alarm at the continued erosion of the rule of law in Guatemala, where justice officials, including...

GENEVA (30 March 2023) – At a moment of increased violence in the occupied Palestinian territory, with the new Israeli government threatening even further annexation, the international community must...

GENEVA/TEGUCIGALPA (30 March 2023) – The government’s political will to tackle the issue of enforced disappearances in Honduras must be transformed into concrete action, UN experts said today....