The Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council are independent human rights experts with mandates to report and advise on human rights from a thematic or country-specific perspective. The system...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this afternoon closed its one hundred and sixth session after adopting its concluding observations on the reports of Cameroon, Estonia...

Chair, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, I would like to thank the organisers – the permanent mission to the UN of the...

We are concerned by the continued detention in Jordan of peaceful activists arrested in February and March under the Law of Crime Prevention and the Cybercrime Prevention Law, in what appears to be...

The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Cuba on its efforts to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture, commending Cuba for...

GENEVA (29 April 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Tomoya Obokata, will conduct an official visit to Mauritania from 4 to 13 May 2022. During the mission, the UN...

GENEVA (29 April 2022) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Friday issued findings on Cameroon, Estonia, Kazakhstan and Luxembourg after reviewing the States parties in...

Date: 29 April 2022 From 4 a.m. on 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine started, to 24:00 midnight on 28 April 2022 (local time), the Office of the UN High...

We are deeply dismayed by the Malian media regulator’s decision to definitively suspend Radio France Internationale (RFI) and France24. We call on Mali’s transitional military authorities to reverse...