Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 8 September 2020 We have followed with increasing concern numerous instances of incitement to...

GENEVA (8 September 2020) – UN human rights experts* today called on authorities in Mali to end slavery once and for all after four men regarded as born into slavery were beaten to death and an 80...

7 September 2020 The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon officially closed its eighteenth session and opened its nineteenth session, hearing an address by Mahamane Cissé-Gouro...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Ms. Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), has initiated the preparation of a report on the situation of indigenous peoples in Asia which will be presented to the Human Rights Council in September 2020.

GENEVA (4 September 2020) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Pakistani authorities to end the secret detention of human rights defender Idris Khattak, who has not been heard from in more...