Distinguished panellists, Colleagues and Friends, I am delighted to join this discussion held in conjunction with the Human Rights Council's fourth intersessional meeting for dialogue and cooperation...

Thank you so much to all of you who have spoken this morning, in particular the valuable reflections from women human rights defenders and peacebuilders. As the Secretary-General stressed in Our...

Distinguished President of the Security Council, Excellencies, This Council has played a vital role in the drive to ensure that peace is built by, and for, women. Yet between 1992 and 2019, only 13...

GENEVA (17 January 2022) - Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human rights...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Nils Melzer, today postponed his detention visit to Brian K. following the announcement by the Swiss authorities that he would be transferred “in the coming days”...

UN human rights experts* expressed serious concern over the United Kingdom's Nationality and Borders Bill, which they said breaches the country's obligations under international law. “If adopted, it...

We are deeply concerned by recent incidents in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in Serbia that saw individuals glorify atrocity crimes and convicted war criminals, target certain communities with hate...

We are alarmed by the multiple, deeply disturbing reports we continue to receive of civilian casualties and destruction of civilian objects resulting from airstrikes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. At...

The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent will carry out a fact-finding visit to Switzerland from 17 to 26 January 2022. "We will gather information on any forms of racism, racial...