GENEVA (8 August 2023) – The importance of ensuring meaningful decision-making for Indigenous Peoples is reliant on their youth, especially young Indigenous women and girls’ leadership and empowerment...

GENEVA (7 August 2023) – A group of UN experts* today expressed alarm over the ongoing blockade of the Lachin corridor by Azerbaijan, which has led to a dire humanitarian crisis in the region of...

In her report, the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons provides information on her visit to the Dominican Republic, which took place from 28 February to 10 March 2023.

In the present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 51/4, the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, Claudia Mahler, provides an overview of her activities during the reporting period and a thematic analysis of violence against and abuse and neglect of older persons. She examines the different manifestations of abuse in older age and reviews prevention and protection measures.

In this report, the Special Rapporteur analyses the concept of gendered disinformation, which she finds is both a strategy to silence the free expression of women and gender nonconforming persons and a threat to their safety and health, as well as a possible form of online gender-based violence. Stressing that there can be no trade-off between women’s right to be safe and their right to speak, the Special Rapporteur promotes a “gendered response” to online threats, including by addressing the underlying factors that drive gendered disinformation and gender-based violence

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its one hundred and tenth session in Geneva, during which it will review anti-discrimination efforts by Italy, Croatia...

GENEVA (7 August 2023) - The recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all is the foundation for freedom, justice and peace in the world. This is the promise set...

GENEVA/BAGHDAD (6 August 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today begins a four-day official mission to Iraq, at the invitation of the Government. During his visit, Türk will...

The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 50/15, in which the Human Rights Council requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, including in consultation with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and other relevant United Nations bodies, to convene at its fifty-third session a panel discussion, fully accessible to persons with disabilities, on the role of digital, media and information literacy in the promotion and enjoyment of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

The new sentence imposed today on opposition figure Alexei Navalny raises renewed serious concerns about judicial harassment and instrumentalization of the court system for political purposes in...