On Tuesday, a long-awaited trial of 24 human rights defenders charged over their role in helping to rescue migrants in distress at sea began in Lesvos in Greece. Trials like this are deeply concerning...

GENEVA (13 January 2023) - The UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) will hold its upcoming session from 16 January to 3 February, during which it will review Sweden, Mauritius, Oman, the Plurinational...

On the cusp of famine, #Somalia continues to raise concern both from a human rights and humanitarian perspective.”Human Rights continue to deteriorate,” @ Isha Dyfan UN Independent Expert Speaker. The...

The recommendations contained in the present report are drawn primarily from the discussions and contributions made by participants at the fifteenth session of the Forum on Minority Issues, held on 1...

GENEVA (12 January 2023) - The UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, will visit Bosnia and...

GENEVA (11 January 2023) – New border enforcement measures recently announced by the US administration risk undermining the basic foundations of international human rights and refugee law, UN High...

“We are very concerned at the rising violence in Peru, which on Monday 9 January saw one of the deadliest days since unrest erupted in early December. Since 7 December 2022, 40 people have died and...

From 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine started, to 9 January 2023, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 18,096 civilian...

Criminal proceedings and the death penalty are being weaponized by the Iranian Government to punish individuals participating in protests and to strike fear into the population so as to stamp out...