GENEVA (11 November 2019) – The international community must prioritise women’s rights to meet the promises and commitments on sexual and reproductive health made at a historic global conference 25...

This report focuses on the Sustainable Development Goals as a potentially transformative tool to advance people’s full enjoyment of the right to food, as well as other economic, social and cultural rights. The promise of the Goals to leave no one behind in the pursuit of human rights for all reflects the principles of equality and non-discrimination.

NEW YORK (24 October 2019) – For the third year in a row, hunger and malnutrition are on the rise, back to levels last seen nearly 10 years ago, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food told the...

Azerbaijani version Baku, 11 October 2019 Members of the Press, ladies and gentlemen, I am addressing you today at the conclusion of my 11-day official country visit to Azerbaijan, which I carried out...

Azerbaijni version GENEVA / BAKU (11 October 2019) – Vigorous economic growth and social transformation over the past 20 years have turned Azerbaijan into an impressive upper middle-income country...

GENEVA (26 September 2019) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, will make a fact-finding visit to Azerbaijan from 1 to 11 October 2019 to examine the Government’s efforts in...

Our addiction to fossil fuels causes climate emergency, say human rights experts GENEVA (17 September 2019) – UN human rights experts call for an end to society's addiction to fossil fuels ahead of...

GENEVA (25 June 2019) ‑ A group of UN experts* has warned the erosion of nature, the extinction of species and the loss of biological diversity at unprecedented rates severely threatens human rights...

GENEVA (13 June 2019) – UN experts today urged the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to immediately recognise and adopt safe and healthy working conditions as one of its fundamental principles...

GENEVA (28 February 2019) – Low wages and horrendous working conditions on fishing vessels, fish farms and in processing factories have a serious impact on the everyday lives of the workers’ families...