Español GENEVA (19 August 2021) – We welcome this week’s report by the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI )* that concluded that serious human rights violations, including systematic...

Background release 18 August 2021 The Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Tuesday, 24 August, to address the "serious human rights concerns and situation in Afghanistan". The special...

GENEVA (18 August 2021) ̶ UN experts today demanded the release of journalist and human rights defender Dawit Isaak, imprisoned without trial in Eritrea since 2001, amid uncertainty about whether he...

17 March 2021 (11:30-13:00) Your excellency, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen , I thank the organizers of today's side-event for their invitation, as well as the other speakers and...

Video Statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet 17 August 2021 Your Royal Highness, Excellencies, Friends, It is a pleasure to address this Forum, especially as...

This Thursday, the headquarters of the UN Human Rights Office, Palais Wilson in Geneva, will be lit up in purple - the international colour for disability - to mark the start of a global, 10-year...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 17 August 2021 The desperate scenes at Kabul airport yesterday underlined the gravity of the...

GENEVA (17 August 2021) – A UN human rights expert today warned of a "cultural disaster" in Afghanistan after Kabul fell to Taliban forces, and urged States to provide urgent assistance to human...

17 August 2021 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-second to twenty-fourth periodic report of the Kingdom of the...

H.E. Ms. Nazhat Shameem Khan, President of the Human Rights Council 16 August 2021 Chairperson, Distinguished members of the Advisory Committee, Mr. Tistounet, Chief of the Human Rights Council Branch...