28 September 2021 Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: the Impact of State COVID-19 Recovery Measures Is Disproportionately and Negatively Affecting Indigenous Peoples The Human...

Every women and adolescent girl has the right to access contraception and family planning services, information and education, UN Experts say GENEVA (23 September 2021) – Under international human...

UNOG online event for International Day of Sign Languages Statement by the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Nada Al Nashif 23 September 2021 Dear colleagues and friends, Human rights is...

GENEVA (15 September 2021) —The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has issued its findings on Djibouti and France, the two States parties which it examined during its...

GENEVA (15 September 2021) - Women’s full and equal participation in public and political life in Afghanistan is essential to addressing the multiple crises confronting the country and must be seen as...

GENEVA (14 September 2021) – UN human rights experts* today denounced a recently enacted law that effectively bans abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy and includes an unprecedented provision...

14 september 2021 The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this afternoon closed its twenty-fifth virtual session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the...

Khmer version (PDF) GENEVA (2 September 2021) ̶ UN human rights experts* today called on Cambodia to release from detention a 17-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder who has been held in pre...