GENEVA (24 March 2021) — The Child Rights Committee today published its legal guidance note on how States should protect children’s rights with regard to the digital environment. The guidance note...

GENEVA (24 March 2021) – On the occasion of the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the EDVAW Platform of 7 independent United Nations and regional expert mechanisms on elimination...

24 March 2021 Afternoon The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted nine resolutions in which it, among other actions, extended the mandates of the Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab...

Council Extends 10 Thematic and Country-Specific Mandates, Highlights the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Adopts Universal Periodic Review Outcomes for 14 States, and Appoints Six Mandate Holders 24...

Summary This working paper, prepared by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), provides an update to the 2012 Analytical Outcome Paper on the normative standards in...

2021-03-23 - Briefing by UN Human Rights spokesperson Liz Throssell on Turkey developments.

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Liz Throssell Location: Geneva Date: 23 March 2021 Turkey's announcement at the weekend that it was withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention...

MORNING 23 March 2021 The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its general debate under agenda item 10 on technical assistance and capacity building. Speakers reiterated that technical...

GENEVA (23 March 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, the Chair of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and other UN and regional human rights...

GENEVA (23 March 2021) – United Nations human rights experts said today digitalisation and the COVID-19 pandemic had facilitated a new wave of stigma, racism, xenophobia and hate targeting minorities...