GENEVA (10 November 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Tomoya Obokata, will conduct a visit to Costa Rica from 16 to 25 November 2022. During the visit, the expert...

GENEVA (4 November 2022) – UN independent experts* today called on States to fully integrate human rights standards and principles in negotiations during the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN...

Appoints Special Rapporteur on Situation of Human Rights in Russian Federation, Extends Mandates on Older Persons, Right to Development, Arbitrary Detention, Mercenaries, Slavery, Indigenous Peoples...

GENEVA (3 October 2022) – Women and girls in the Tigray, Afar and Amhar are increasingly vulnerable to abduction and trafficking for sexual exploitation as they flee the conflict in Northern Ethiopia...

GENEVA (27 September 2022) – As the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and navigates the climate crisis, rethinking tourism must be a priority to ensure all children are protected from forced...

GENEVA (15 September 2022) –Minority communities in all regions of the world are subjected to contemporary forms of slavery, a UN expert said in a report presented to the Human Rights Council today....

Observations and Comments of Sri Lanka on the draft report of Mr. Tomoya Obokata the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, on his Country Visit to Sri Lanka from 26 November to 3...

GENEVA (7 September 2022) – Independent UN experts* said today that profound concerns over systematic human rights violations and their widespread effect on individuals and minorities in China’s...

GENEVA (5 September 2022) – UN experts* today denounced a recent court decision in Malaysia that denied women the same rights as men to automatically confer citizenship to their children, saying...

GENEVA (19 August 2022) – The cynical abuse of religion or belief as a tool of discrimination, hostility and violence should be condemned by all actors at every level of society, UN experts and senior...