World Leprosy Day - 29 January 2023 GENEVA (26 January 2023) – Children and teenagers affected by leprosy (also known as Hansen’s disease) remain hidden, invisible, forgotten and dehumanised, a UN...

The court order to close down Russia’s oldest human rights organization, the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), is yet another blow to human rights and civic space in the country. MHG was founded in 1976...

Today, we remember and honour the victims of the Holocaust. The six million Jews. Roma and Sinti people. Slavs. People with disabilities. LGBTI people. Prisoners of war. And the members of anti-Nazi...

The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia acknowledges the publication by the Government of Ethiopia of its draft Policy Options for Transitional Justice, dated January 2023...

GENEVA (26 January 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is due to arrive in Venezuela today at the start of an official mission, at the invitation of the Government. During his...

GENEVA (26 January 2023) – Japan’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the fourth time on Tuesday, 31 January 2023...

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material, Mama Fatima...

Good afternoon. I have just come from a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where I signed a new Host Country Agreement with the Government, extending the presence of my Office in Colombia...