GENEVA (17 June 2016) – “Digital technologies should reduce inequalities in society, not widen them,” today said the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, during...

BUJUMBURA/GENEVA (17 June 2016): At the end of their second visit to Burundi, the three human rights experts of the United Nations Independent Investigation on Burundi (UNIIB) called for concrete...

GENEVA (17 June 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, will undertake an official visit to the country from 20 June to 1st July 2016...

GENEVA (17 June 2016) – Fundamentalism is fuelling growing intolerance worldwide, which poses a grave threat to the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, United Nations expert...

AFTERNOON Council Hears Address by Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sudan GENEVA (17 June 2016) - The Human Rights Council this afternoon began its clustered interactive dialogue with Dubravka...

Mr. Deputy Secretary-General, <br UN colleagues, <br Madame Chairperson, <br Ladies and Gentlemen, <br These are challenging times: Tensions and deadly conflicts are increasing in various parts of the...

17 June 2016 Geneva Mr. President, distinguished delegates, representatives of the United Nations and the NGO community, It is a great honour for me and a great responsibility to address the 32nd...

17 June 2016 Mr. President, I am honoured to present my fifth thematic report before the Human Rights Council today, along with reports on my official visits to Chile and the Republic of Korea. As you...

GENEVA (16 June 2016) – Kazakhstan’s human rights record will be reviewed by the UN Human Rights Committee on 22 and 23 June in Geneva. As one of the 168 States that have ratified the International...

GENEVA (16 June 2016) – Three United Nations human rights experts today called on the Government of India to repeal the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), which is been increasingly used to...