GENEVA (7 December 2022) – Independent United Nations experts today urged all UN member states to prioritise enacting, enforcing and implementing anti - discrimination legislation, as the Office of...

GENEVA (29 November 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, will visit Morocco from 6 to 19 December 2022 to examine the government’s efforts to...

GENEVA (29 November 2022) – UN experts* today welcomed the adoption of a resolution presented by the African group, calling on Member states to lay the groundwork for a new UN convention on tax that...

NEW YORK (28 October 2022) – “Povertyism” – negative attitudes and behaviours towards people living in poverty – is as pervasive, toxic and harmful as racism, sexism and other forms of discrimination...

GENEVA (17 October 2022) – As global inflation continues to sky-rocket, and prices of the most basic necessities become too high for millions to afford, the UN’s poverty expert has urged governments...

GENEVA (21 September 2022) – Several UN human rights experts have called on States to step up their assistance to monsoon flood victims in Pakistan and ensure that international recovery efforts are...

GENEVA (24 August 2022) - UN experts* today condemned Israel’s escalating attacks against Palestinian civil society in the occupied West Bank, after the Israeli army broke into the offices of seven...

GENEVA (3 August 2022) – UN experts* called on the Human Rights Council to launch an international investigation into the massive explosion in Beirut two years ago that killed more than 200 people and...

GENEVA (29 July 2022) – UN experts* today condemned the execution of Nazeri Bin Lajim, a 64-year-old Malay Singaporean national convicted of drug offenses and urged the Government of Singapore to halt...

GENEVA (22 July 2022) – Four years since a dam failure in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic left at least 71 dead and thousands displaced and homeless, UN experts* have called on the Government and...