Summary The Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Dainius Pūras visited Canada from 5 to 16 November 2018...

Summary The Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Šimonović, visited Nepal from 19 to 29 November 2018. In the report, she examines gaps and challenges in...

GENEVA (19 June 2019) – The Lao People’s Democratic Republic should urgently adopt widespread reforms to alleviate poverty, protect the rights of people in poverty and ensure economic growth benefits...

GENEVA (19 June 2019) – UN human rights experts* have expressed concern at an escalating trend of suppression by the Cambodian Government of dissenting opinions in what appears to be an attempt to...

GENEVA (19 June 2019) – Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was the victim of a premeditated extrajudicial execution, for which the State of Saudi Arabia is responsible, according to a report published...

Human Rights Council BACKGROUND RELEASE 19 June 2019 The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-first regular session from 24 June to 12 July 2019 in the Human Rights and Alliance of...

Arabic The following comment is attributable to Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “As former President Mohammed Morsi was in the custody of the...

GENEVA (18 June 2019) – UN human rights experts* urged Australia to immediately provide appropriate health care to more than 800 asylum seekers and other migrants who have been held in the country’s...

Dhivehi version Introduction and Legal Framework The Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights, Karima Bennoune, would like to thank the Government of the Maldives for the invitation to visit...