Arabic | Chinese | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (17 April 2020) – Antisemitic hate speech has risen alarmingly since the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis and must be rejected, said the UN Special...

Arabic | Chinese version | Khmer version | Spanish GENEVA (17 April 2020) – The Cambodian Government's new state of emergency law in response to the COVID-19 pandemic risks violating the right to...

Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (17 April 2020) – UN Human rights experts* have expressed grave concern at the multiplication of accounts of police killings and other acts of...

Chinese | French | Spanish GENEVA (17 April 2020) – UN human rights experts* today called on Iran to expand its temporary release of thousands of detainees to include prisoners of conscience and dual...

Arabic | Chinese | French | Spanish Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 17 April 2020 Subject: Myanmar/Bangladesh - Rohingya We are...

Chinese | French | Spanish Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 17 April 2020 Subject: Libya We are gravely concerned by the continued...

French | Spanish Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 17 April 2020 Subject: DRC We are alarmed by the worsening security situation in...

Arabic | Chinese | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (17 April 2020) – States need to ensure that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people do not face discrimination or fear retribution for seeking...

In the present report, the Working Group on discrimination against women and girls analyses the gender dimensions of major trends changing the world of work, including technological and demographic changes, accelerated globalization and the shift to sustainable economies, and underlines the need to focus on the structural and systemic discrimination already faced by women in all facets of their life, which places them at greater risk of further discrimination.

GENEVA (16 April 2020) – Poland must reject two bills before parliament one of which could be used to make sexuality education of children an offence punishable by jail and the other would further...