GENEVA (2 June 2023) – UN experts* today called for greater transparency, oversight, and regulation to address the negative impacts of new and emerging digital tools and online spaces on human rights...

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Bolivia on measures taken...

GENEVA (19 October 2021) – A group of independent United Nations human rights experts issued the following joint statement, in order to highlight the serious negative impact that financialisation has...

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For too long, the gender dimensions of migration have been overlooked in policies and programmes that govern international migration. This means that the specific needs, experiences, vulnerabilities...

GENEVA / BANJUL / WASHINGTON D.C. (18 December 2014) – A group of international experts* on the rights of migrants have called upon the need for open, safe and regular migration channels for the more...

GENEVA (18 December 2011) – “Let us recall on this International Migrants Day that migrants are often the engine of innovation and growth, as positive societal change is dependent on new ideas...

GENEVA – This year the United Nations Human Rights Council has created new monitoring and reporting mechanisms on the situation of human rights in Iran, the freedom of peaceful assembly and of...

Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Migrants 29 April 2005 ROUND-UP Committee Adopts Provisional Guidelines for the Submission of States Parties' Initial Reports; Decides to Hold General Day...

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has the honour to refer to the Commission on Human Rights resolution 1998/16 of 9 April 1998, entitled “Migrants and human rights”. The...