BOGOTA (31 May 2023) – Trafficking in persons, especially children by non-state armed groups and criminal organisations continues to undermine peacebuilding in Colombia, a UN expert warned today....

GENEVA (19 May 2023) – UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, will conduct an official visit to Colombia from 22 to 30 May 2023. Mullally...

The Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, highlights the prevalence of trafficking in persons in South Sudan, including but not limited to the context of conflict, and the urgency of strengthening coordinated action to prevent trafficking in persons for all purposes of exploitation and to provide gender-sensitive, trauma-informed and human rights-based assistance and protection.

GENEVA (8 May 2023) – Slavery by descent and the resulting violence perpetrated by so-called ‘nobles’ or ‘masters’ against people born into slavery persisted in Mali, UN experts said today, urging...

WASHINGTON (5 May 2023) - The UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice in the Context of Law Enforcement ended a 12-day visit to the United States of America on Friday...

Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 55th session 30 July 2003 Afternoon Sub-Commission Expert Reports on Issues and Modalities for Effective Universality of International...

23 July 2003 Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Economic and Social Council, ladies and gentlemen, The history of the United Nations has offered us one important lesson: we cannot achieve...

2 July 2003 The acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Haitian authorities have agreed to work together to highlight the two-hundredth anniversary of the slave rebellion that led...