The Chair of the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture this morning presented the Subcommittee’s sixteenth annual report to the Committee against Torture. Suzanne Jabbour, Chairperson of the...

The present briefer, prepared by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and published in 2023, focuses on the various challenges faced by journalists when covering protests, including the increased attacks on journalists during protests by State and non-State actors, the intersectional discriminatory attacks on women journalists, increased online threats, digital surveillance and internet shutdowns. It also presents the overall duties and responsibilities of law enforcement officials, including in relation to permissible restrictions to the right to freedom of expression, and the use of force during protests, as well as safety measures for journalists and good journalistic practices in the context of protests.

GENEVA (1 May 2023) – Burundi’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on Thursday, 4 May 2023, in a...

29 August 2003 Following is the statement delivered by Ms. Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General, at the Palais des Nations on the occasion of the ceremony for the victims of the attack of the...

29 August 2003 The acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, condemns the shocking act of terrorism that claimed the life of Ayatollah Mohamed Baker al-Hakim and...

Palais des Nations, 29 August, 2003 Remarks of Bertrand Ramcharan, Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights at the Ceremony in Honour of Colleagues fallen or wounded in Baghdad Deputy Secretary...

29 August 2003 Following is the address by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at the memorial service held today at the Palais des Nations for those...

28 August 2003 Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s message for the memorial service honouring victims of the bombing of the United Nations mission in Iraq, delivered by Terje Roed-Larsen...

26 August 2003 The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Antoanella-Iulia Motoc, will visit that country from 26...

26 August 2003 The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR, is hosting a celebration of Sergio Vieira de Mello’s life on Thursday 28 August at 19.00 hrs at the Geneva...