My greetings to you all. I very much regret that I am not able to be with you in person for the launch of this landmark General Comment. I particularly want to thank the Child Advisors who are a huge...

MORNING 18 September 2023 Council Concludes Interactive Dialogue on the Report of the Office of the High Commissioner on Protecting Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in the Context of Addressing...

GENEVA (18 September 2023) – The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances will hold its 131 st session from 18 to 27 September 2023 to examine more than 3000 cases from 36 countries...

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today considered the initial report of Nigeria under the International Convention on the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. Committee...

GENEVA (18 September 2023) – Nearly one year since the signing of an agreement to cease hostilities in Ethiopia, atrocities, war crimes and crimes against humanity are still being committed in the...

GENEVA (18 September 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Margaret Satterthwaite, will conduct her first official visit to Montenegro from 19 to 26 September...

In a rapidly changing world, technologies are transforming migration and border governance. Drones and surveillance technology, automated visa assessments, biometric data collection and storage and...

Dear Deputy Secretary-General, Ambassador Mythen, Excellencies Major Groups co-chairs, Colleagues and friends. We heard time and again at the High-level political forum that we find ourselves behind...

Le Comité des droits de l’enfant a examiné, hier après-midi et ce matin, le rapport périodique soumis par le Togo au titre de la Convention relative aux droits de l’enfant . Pendant cet examen, des...

GENEVA (15 September 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule, will conduct an official visit to Algeria from 16 to...