GENEVA (16 January 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk today expressed alarm at the abduction of at least 50 women in Burkina Faso on 12 and 13 January and called for their...

Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, this morning addressed the opening of the ninety-second session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, during which the Committee...

Date: 16 January 2023 1 From 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine started, to 15 January 2023, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)...

Madam Chair, Distinguished members of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, Colleagues and Friends, I am pleased to be here today to open this ninety-second session of the Committee on the Rights...

GENEVA (16 January 2023) – UN experts* today expressed alarm at the reported rise in abductions, forced marriages and conversions of underage girls and young women from religious minorities in...

The present report of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action provides information on the twentieth session of the Working...

GENEVA (13 January 2023) - The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Farida Shaheed, will visit UNESCO Headquarters in Paris from 16 to 20 January 2023. The expert will discuss issues...

We welcome President Joko Widodo’s acknowledgment and expression of regret for 12 historical incidents of serious human rights violations, including the 1965-1966 anti-Communist crackdown, the 1982...