GENEVA (5 September 2022) - The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urgently calls on Mexico to abolish mandatory pre-trial detention, also known as “automatic preventive detention”...

We condemn the execution of five prisoners in Gaza and urge the de facto authorities in Gaza to establish a moratorium on all executions. We call on the State of Palestine to take robust measures to...

GENEVA (5 September 2022) – UN experts* today denounced a recent court decision in Malaysia that denied women the same rights as men to automatically confer citizenship to their children, saying...

August 2022 From 1 to 31 August 2022, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 1,162 civilian casualties in Ukraine: 294 killed (80 men, 79 women, 3 girls, 6 boys, and...

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visited Maldives from 29 November to 9 December 2021 upon the invitation of the Government. The Working Group identified positive developments, including: the ratification of international human rights instruments; the functioning of the Human Rights Commission, including its mandate as the national preventive mechanism for Maldives, and the range of other bodies mandated to conduct regular oversight over places of deprivation of liberty; reform of the Maldives Police Service; self-regulation of the legal profession by the Bar Council of Maldives; initiatives to address past human rights violations; cooperation with international human rights mechanisms; and remote court hearings.

We are deeply concerned by the court’s decision in Moscow to revoke the licence of Novaya Gazeta, a respected national newspaper whose editor-in-chief received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The court...

GENEVA (5 September 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Gerard Quinn, will conduct an official visit to Jordan from 5 to 15 September 2022. “The visit...

SEOUL (2 September 2022) - The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) , Elizabeth Salmón, conducted her first official visit to the...

The present report is submitted to the General Assembly pursuant to Human Rights Council resolutions 8/4 and 44/3. In the report, the Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Koumbou Boly Barry, considers early childhood care and education (ECCE) from a human rights-based perspective, reflecting the multisectoral needs of children and their caregivers

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the initial report of South Sudan, with Committee Experts praising South Sudan’s child act, and raising questions about...