GENEVA (25 October 2018) - A UN human rights expert has urged the Japanese Government to halt the ongoing relocation of evacuees who are children and women of reproductive age to areas of Fukushima...

Ministerial Round Table on 21st Century Global Investment Policymaking Statement by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet 25 October 2018 Excellencies, colleagues and friends, I am...

NEW YORK (25 October 2018) –  Trans and gender-diverse people around the world are overwhelmingly and disproportionately the victims of violence to levels that offend the human conscience, the UN...

NEW YORK (25 October 2018) – A UN human rights expert has highlighted the vital role played by aid workers in preventing arbitrary killings and unlawful deaths, and denounced States who prevent life...

25 October 2018 “Yesterday’s statement by Burundi’s Ambassador Albert Shingiro attacking the report of the independent international Commission of Inquiry established by the UN Human Rights Council is...

GENEVA (25 October 2018) - The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the sixth periodic report of the Bahamas on its implementation of the provisions of the...

NEW YORK (25 October 2018) – A UN human rights expert called on States to recognise the right to a healthy environment, in order to fight the scourges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and...

NEW YORK (25 October 2018) – A crackdown on free speech is the latest worrying development amid the deteriorating, “wholescale oppression” of human rights in Belarus, an independent expert has told...

New York, 25 October 2018 Excellences, distinguished delegates, colleagues, friends, Exploitation can take many forms. In my report to you today, I describe a particularly vicious form of exploitation...

New York, 25 October 2018 Excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen EARTH PHOTO We live on the only planet in the universe known to support life. This miraculous blue-green orb is...