GENEVA / NEW YORK – Bilateral and multilateral development finance institutions (DFIs) should routinely plan to ensure the projects they finance do not harm people, and they and their clients should...

The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its forty-ninth regular session from 28 February to 1 April 2022 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, starting with a high-level segment from 28...

GENEVA - UN experts* today welcomed the cultural heritage status bestowed on Lima’s "El Ojo que Llora" (The Eye That Cries) monument, built in memory of the thousands of victims from Peru’s decades...

Colleagues, friends, thank you for being with us today. I am particularly grateful to Speaker Nancy Pelosi for joining us. Speaker Pelosi’s vital work on transparency and accountability has left a...

Bilateral and multilateral development finance institutions are critical actors in development and make important contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals as well as human rights...

The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 46/3 and provides an overview of the implementation of the resolution and the developments that are of relevance to the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the obligation to ensure accountability and justice.

The Myanmar junta is committing gross human rights violations against the people of Myanmar.

Geneva (22 February 2022) "Following the decision announced by the President of the Russian Federation last night on Ukraine, I am deeply concerned that any significant escalation in military action...

GENEVA / BAMAKO (22 February 2022) – There have been some improvements in the security and human rights situation in Mali, a UN human rights expert said on Tuesday, but he warned this should not...