The present study is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 42/22. In it, the Working Group examines how drug policies may result in human rights violations relating to arbitrary detention and makes recommendations. It draws on the Working Group’s own jurisprudence, positions taken by other human rights mechanisms and United Nations entities and contributions submitted by States and other stakeholders.

Summary The present report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, was prepared pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 44/4. In the...

21st Session of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development Agenda Item 4.4.2 – Interaction with experts about the elaboration of a draft legally binding instrument on the right to...

Español GENEVA (18 May 2021) – A UN expert today urged the Government of Peru to end the criminalisation of environmental human rights defenders and ensure the country's judiciary is not used as a...

Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 18 May 2021 Distinguished Ministers My dear Guy Ryder, Excellencies, Friends I am grateful for the invitation to address this...

GENEVA (18 May 2021) – UN human rights experts* called on the international community to demand an immediate end to the violence in Gaza and Israel, and to act decisively to address the underlying...

Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 17 May 2021 Ms Waly, Mr Cortese, Distinguished Ministers, Excellencies, The UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice...

Opening remarks by Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 17 May 2021 Distinguished delegates, Excellencies, Colleagues, I am pleased to address this meeting of the...

GENEVA (17 May 2021) South Africa’s low levels of prosecution and conviction in domestic violence cases and the frequent failures by the police to serve and enforce protection orders, exposed...