Human Rights Council 43rd Session Statement by Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Geneva, 13 March 2020 Madam President, Distinguished panellists, Excellencies...

Council Extends All Mandates and Mandated Activities that would otherwise Expire and Appoints 19 Special Procedure Mandate Holders The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the Universal Periodic...

Human Rights Committee 13 March 2020 Starts second reading of draft General Comment on the right of peaceful assembly The Human Rights Committee today decided to suspend its one hundred and twenty...

​French WELLINGTON/GENEVA (12 March 2020) – While commending New Zealand Government for its commitment and initiatives to improve the situation of older persons, a UN expert concluded her visit to the...

​ Spanish GENEVA / LA PAZ (12 March 2020) - The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention welcomes the decision by a court in Cochabamba to end the detention of Mayor José María Leyes, who was deprived...

​Thai version GENEVA / BANGKOK (12 March 2020) - A group of UN experts* have condemned the continued misuse of judicial processes by Thai poultry producer Thammakaset to harass and silence human...

GENEVA (12 March 2020) – A UN expert expressed his support of the recent decision by the Lebanese Government to postpone its debt repayment and urged Lebanese authorities to put human rights at the...