Twenty-five years after the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women, no country in the world is free from discrimination against women Women's and girls' activism and autonomous movements have been...

GENEVA (5 March 2020) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Joseph Cannataci, has called for gender equality to be embedded in privacy practices around the world. Over the...

Human Rights Council HRC/20/21 5 March 2020 Concludes Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering...

GENEVA (11 February 2020) – States must urgently develop comprehensive strategies to prevent child sexual abuse online and to address both the opportunities and the risks that the Internet presents...

GENEVA (18 December 2019) - The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy is recommending to the Government of Malta to reinforce the protection of fundamental human rights and respect for the...

GENEVA (11 December 2019) - UN human rights experts* have called on Egypt to end the arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of Ramy Kamel Saied Salid, who works to defend the human rights of the...

NEW YORK (29 October 2019) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, Joseph Cannataci, has unveiled a set of international standards on how health data should be used and protected, warning...

GENEVA (10 October 2019) – On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child, UN human rights experts* have applauded the energy and sense of urgency, as well as courage and intellect, that...

GENEVA (8 August 2019) – Royal decrees allowing all Saudi women to apply for passports and women aged 21 and above to travel independently without their guardians’ permission have been welcomed by UN...

GENEVA / SEOUL (30 July 2019) – Evidence of serious, systematic infringements of the right to privacy in South Korea has been found by UN Special Rapporteur Joseph Cannataci, together with significant...