Summary The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 46/24, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to report to it on human rights in the occupied Syrian...

In the to the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri, emphasizes that seeds are central to people’s cultures and food systems, and to control seeds is to control life.

In the present report to the Human Rights Council, which is the sixth and last of his tenure, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment evaluates the reception and utilization by States of his thematic reports as a driver of change in national laws, policies and practices towards the eradication of torture and illtreatment, and he offers recommendations aimed at supporting that process.

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor, analyses the situation of human rights defenders working against corruption and stresses that protection frameworks applicable to human rights defenders should apply to them. The report includes examples of the types of threats and structural difficulties faced by human rights defenders fighting corruption and suggests ways that relevant stakeholders might act to protect them and to promote their work.

The Director General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, and Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, continue to be deeply concerned for the well-being of two of their staff members who were...

The present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 43/23, contains an overview of State obligations under article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities...