GENEVA (29 September 2022) – The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will make an official visit to Mongolia, from 3 to 14 October 2022, to assess the country’s situation regarding the deprivation...

MORNING The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with the Working Group on arbitrary detention and started an interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on the...

Good morning, Today I am joining you from Odesa – a city in the south of Ukraine where the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission has been present since 2014. Every day, we speak to people across the...

GENEVA (5 September 2022) - The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention urgently calls on Mexico to abolish mandatory pre-trial detention, also known as “automatic preventive detention”...

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visited Maldives from 29 November to 9 December 2021 upon the invitation of the Government. The Working Group identified positive developments, including: the ratification of international human rights instruments; the functioning of the Human Rights Commission, including its mandate as the national preventive mechanism for Maldives, and the range of other bodies mandated to conduct regular oversight over places of deprivation of liberty; reform of the Maldives Police Service; self-regulation of the legal profession by the Bar Council of Maldives; initiatives to address past human rights violations; cooperation with international human rights mechanisms; and remote court hearings.