Video Statement on Gender and Climate Action by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet 11 December 2018 Climate change has a disproportionately heavy toll on the wellbeing and rights...

GENEVA (11 December 2018) – A UN human rights expert has expressed her dismay at the imprisonment of three ethnic Kachin activists for allegedly criticizing the Myanmar military during peaceful...

French GENEVA (11 December 2018) ­ UN human rights experts* have expressed concerns over a crackdown against protesters in Cameroon following President Paul Biya’s re-election, and called for the...

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Portuguese version Excellencies, The mandate of UN Independent Expert on the protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was established by the...

Russian GENEVA (10 December 2018) – “I have learned with sadness that the human rights community has lost one of its greatest human rights defenders, Ms. Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva. She was a...

Portuguese version MAPUTO (10 December 2018) – A UN expert recognised that Mozambique’s social fabric shields lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons from extreme forms of physical...

​as delivered by Craig Mokhiber, Director, New York Office - GCM Dialogue #1 Excellencies, Over two years ago in the New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants , the international community made a...

Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration H igh-level event on Human Rights Day to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration...