Français | Español “COVID-19 pandemic and the human rights to water and sanitation” This year, we celebrate World Toilet Day amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which underscores the vital need to guarantee...

9 November 2020 To date, there have been more than 49 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 and over 1.2 million deaths reported to WHO. 1 This disease continues to prove more deadly than anticipated...

GENEVA (9 November 2020) – UN human rights experts today criticised countries that are trying to monopolise any future vaccine against COVID-19, saying the only way to fight the pandemic is to make...

Español GENEVA (9 November 2020) - UN human rights experts* welcomed the impending entry into force of the first environmental human rights treaty in Latin America and the Caribbean, known as the...

Français | Español NEW YORK (21 October 2020) – The current economic and environmental crises can only be overcome with a development model that addresses the challenges of poverty eradication and...

Summary This report examines how the fight against poverty can be combined with the search for a development model that mitigates climate change and halts the erosion of biodiversity. The “just...

GENEVA (6 October 2020) – Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic estimated to push another 176 million people into poverty , the Human Rights Council Social Forum opens this Thursday to address...

GENEVA (28 September 2020) – Colombia should suspend some operations at one of the world’s largest coal mines because it has seriously damaged the environment and health of the country’s largest...

As the world faces the deepest economic recession since the 1929 Great Depression, social protection is again on the top of the international agenda, years after the adoption in 2012 of Recommendation No.202 on National Social Protection Floors within the International Labour Organization. As countries rush to issue cash transfers, unemployment benefits, and in-kind support for their citizens, the Special Rapporteur assesses the responses governments are providing, examines the global state of public services and human rights before the pandemic, and reflects on the challenges that lie ahead.

Français | Español GENEVA (11 September 2020) – The UN’s independent expert on extreme poverty said in a report published today that while governments have adopted more than 1,400 social protection...