Summary A common narrative in the human rights community is that human rights are neutral towards the type of water and sanitation provision and provider. The present report challenges this narrative...

​ Statement by the Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation, Léo Heller 28 July 2020 Ten years ago, on 28 July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly passed...

Summary A decade has passed since water and sanitation has been explicitly recognized as a human right, yet the specifics of how to implement the obligation to progressively realize those human rights...

中文 GENEVA (26 June 2020) – UN independent experts have repeatedly communicated with the Government of the People’s Republic of China their alarm regarding the repression of fundamental freedoms in...

Español GENEVA (26 June 2020) – The Government and Spanish companies must immediately improve abysmal conditions for neglected migrant labourers deployed as “essential workers” to pick strawberries...

GENEVA (25 June 2020) – One year ago, 11 UN human rights experts jointly called on the Human Rights Council to establish an independent investigation into human rights violations in the Philippines...

June 5, 2020 This statement is issued by independent experts* of the Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council: The recent killing of George Floyd has shocked many in the world...

Chinese | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (18 May 2020) – As countries begin to ease recent restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, a group of UN human rights experts* call on Governments and...

​French | ​Spanish Statement by human rights experts on the International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia 17 May 2020 Geneva/Washington D.C./Strasbourg, 14 May 2020 On the eve of the...

Spanish GENEVA (6 May 2020) – A group of UN experts today demanded that Venezuela detail plans to tackle the devastating impact of the country’s economic crisis on human rights and also urged the...