GENEVA (8 June 2023 ) –Bangladesh must immediately suspend a pilot repatriation project for Rohingya to return to Myanmar, where they face serious risks to their lives and liberty, a UN expert said...

The Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons visited Japan from 26 September to 7 October 2022. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, following the great east-Japan...

GENEVA (16 May 2023) – On the occasion of the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, a group of UN and regional human rights experts called on States to address racism and...

GENEVA (11 May 2023) – All parties to hostilities in Sudan must immediately end the fighting, cease targeting the civilian population and infrastructure and resume negotiations towards a civilian-led...

In the present report, submitted pursuant to resolution 50/6 of the Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, provides an outline of the direction that she intends to take during her tenure, including her methods of work and her strategic and thematic priorities.

25 years since adoption of UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement GENEVA (17 April 2023): The year 2022 saw the highest number of internally displaced persons ever recorded, with conflict...

GENEVA (13 April 2023) – The international community must take immediate action to stop Israel’s forced evictions and displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem as part of Israel’s annexation and...

GENEVA (4 April 2023): UN experts* today expressed solidarity with the people of Malawi in the wake of devastating Tropical Cyclone Freddy that has killed and injured hundreds, creating an...

GENEVA (13 February 2023) – The international community must take action to stop systematic and deliberate housing demolition and sealing, arbitrary displacement and forced evictions of Palestinian...

GENEVA (10 February 2023): Extending their heartfelt support to the people of Türkiye and Syria, UN experts* today urged the international community to take prompt action to enable effective emergency...