GENEVA (24 March 2021) – On the occasion of the 65th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the EDVAW Platform of 7 independent United Nations and regional expert mechanisms on elimination...

русский GENEVA (1 July 2020) – UN experts today demanded that Belarus refrains from violence against peaceful protesters ahead of 9 August presidential elections. They urged the Government to abandon...

GENEVA (16 June 2020) – The agreement by the new coalition Government of Israel to annex significant parts of the occupied Palestinian West Bank after 1 July would violate a cornerstone principle of...

GENEVA (6 March 2020) – A group of UN experts* has called on men around the world to be a part of movements for gender equality and become women´s human rights defenders. "Now more than ever," they...

Human Rights Day – Saturday 10 December 2016 GENEVA (9 December 2014) – Speaking ahead of Human Rights Day on Saturday 10 December, the largest body of independent experts of the United Nations Human...

7 June 2011 NEW YORK: At the end of his 10-day visit to Iraq, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonović, today urged the government to do more to protect civilians from violence....

15 May 2003 Following is a statement issued today by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello: The High Commissioner for Human Rights is concerned that evidence of past...

Commission on Human Rights 59th session 25 April 2003 Afternoon Also Approves Measures on Right to Development, Rights of the Child, Indigenous Issues The Commission on Human Rights concluded...

Commission on Human Rights Fifty-ninth Session Geneva, 1st April 2003 Item 9 of the provisional agenda What almost everyone was hoping and praying for that peaceful disarmament would be given a...

Commission on Human Rights 59th session 1 April 2003 Morning Special Rapporteurs on Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iraq, Personal Representative on Cuba, and Justice Minister of Congo Speak The...