Spanish Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Liz Throssell Location: Geneva Date: 23 November 2018 (1) Guatemala We welcome the ruling this week by a Guatemalan court to convict...

Spanish Article 14: Right to Asylum In 1950, two years after the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), it created the United Nations High Commissioner for...

International Day on the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 2018 GENEVA (23 November 2018) – In a joint statement issued ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence...

GENEVA (23 November, 2018) — The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will meet in Geneva from 26 November to 14 December to review Albania, Honduras, Iraq, Norway, Qatar, and...

The Special Rapporteur looks at how the right to education, and the commitments made under the Sustainable Development Goals, provide guidance for governance in national education systems. She considers how the right to education should be mainstreamed into education governance. Governance in this context covers the laws, policies, institutions, administrative procedures and practices, monitoring and accountability mechanisms, and judicial procedures that are related to education.

"Parliaments as promoters of human rights, democracy and the rule of law" Statement by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet 22 November 2018 Vice President of the Council...

UN rights chief issues open letter ahead of December climate change meeting Climate change is "already affecting people’s lives" Failure to act will lead to countless additional lives being...

Geneva/Georgetown (21 November 2018) -- Participants at a first of its kind meeting in the Caribbean region have concluded a two-day workshop in the Guyanese capital after having adopted the...

Spanish Article 13: Freedom of Movement After the collapse of the Siad Barre regime in Somalia in 1991, conflict and drought forced more than 15 percent of the country’s entire population from their...