The Secretary-General has the honour to transmit to the General Assembly the report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 72/182 and Human Rights Council resolution 41/15.

Submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 36/32, the present report outlines the role and achievements of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in...

Summary At the invitation of the Government, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visited Bhutan from 14 to 24 January 2019. The Working Group commends the progress made by Bhutan in relation to...

Summary Since its inception in 1980, the Working Group has transmitted a total of 57,891 cases to 108 States. The number of cases under active consideration that have not yet been clarified, closed or...

GENEVA (31 July 2019) – Two UN human rights experts have called on Israel to halt its efforts to deport the Palestinian photojournalist Mustafa Al-Nadir Iyad Al-Kharouf, and to regularize his status...

30 July 2019 - The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Bangladesh on its efforts to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture and...