Recent crises underline the urgent need to focus on the principles of non-discrimination, participation, empowerment and accountability, and particular attention should be paid to people in vulnerable...

GENEVA (10 December 2021) - A group of UN experts today called on Pakistan to halt the approval of an amendment to a bill criminalizing enforced disappearances that would harshly penalize families and...

Greetings to all of you, and my thanks to the Agence Française de Développement for putting together this important meeting. This is a time of escalating inequalities, with dramatic setbacks to...

From 2 to 10 December 2021, I conducted an official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. I would like to thank the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina for extending the invitation to visit the country...

Media freedoms are a fundamental cornerstone of our universal human rights. Everyone has a right to freedom of information, freedom of expression and freedom of opinion. These rights also empower us...

We are deeply concerned by a continuing series of forced expulsions of asylum-seekers and other migrants in Libya, including two large groups of Sudanese over the past month, with another group of 24...

We are appalled by the alarming escalation of grave human rights abuses in Myanmar. In the last week alone, security forces have killed and burned to death 11 people – among them five minors – and...

The HC issued a statement yesterday focused on inequalities – the theme of Human Rights Day this year. The past two years have demonstrated, all too painfully, the intolerable cost of soaring...

GENEVA (10 December 2021) - UN and regional human rights experts* today issued a joint declaration calling on States to strengthen international efforts to support and protect civil society actors who...

GENEVA (10 December 2021) - A UN human rights expert today called on the Liberian Government to promptly investigate a series of killings that have occurred this year, some of which have reportedly...