Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 27 March 2020 Subject: Uganda We welcome the ruling by the Constitutional Court of Uganda that the...

GENEVA (27 March 2020) – States and businesses must urgently step up their efforts to ensure that health care workers fighting the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide receive adequate protective equipment...

GENEVA (26 March 2020) – The COVID-19 crisis cannot be solved with public health and emergency measures only; all other human rights must be addressed too, UN human rights experts* said today....

​French | ​Spanish GENEVA (26 March 2020) – The Central African Republic (CAR) is struck by the COVID-19 pandemic and is heading towards a certain health disaster if hostilities do not stop...

Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (25 March 2020) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called on governments to take urgent action to protect the health and...

Summary In this report, prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 28/16, the Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy highlights activities undertaken in 2019 concerning, inter alia...