GENEVA (22 June 2018) - The executive order signed by the US President on 20 June 2018 fails to address the situation of thousands of migrant children forcibly separated from their parents and held in...

UN human rights experts urge Spain to halt extraditions to China fearing risk of torture or death penalty Spanish GENEVA (18 May 2018) – UN human rights experts* say they are deeply concerned by Spain...

GENEVA (17 May 2018) – A group of UN human rights experts* has criticised the use of defamation legislation in Thailand to silence human rights defender Andy Hall and others who report business...

Summary The Secretariat has the honour to transmit to the Human Rights Council the report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, prepared pursuant to Council resolution 34/21. The...

International day for the elimination of racial discrimination 21 March 2018 Globally, racial equality is under attack. Vile discourses of explicit hate and ideologies of racial supremacy have moved...

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GENEVA (1 March 2018) – The new policy by Israel to deport Eritrean and Sudanese nationals violates international human rights and refugee law, UN human rights experts* have said, calling on the...

GENEVA (20 February 2018) - UN human rights experts have called on the United States to urgently address the situation of hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrived in the country as children and...

GENEVA (14 February 2018) – The United States Government must respect the rights of human rights defenders, a group of UN experts* has said, amid concern over action being taken against a Mexican...