GENEVA (7 December 2022) – UN experts said today they were concerned the 1,500-kilometre Train Maya project on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula was endangering the rights of indigenous peoples and other...

GENEVA (6 December 2022) – In order to realise a “world living in harmony with nature” by 2050, UN experts today called on States to ensure that the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is centred...

GENEVA (2 December 2022) –Non-implementation of Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord since it was signed 25 years ago has severely threatened the culture and identity of the region’s...

GENEVA (4 November 2022) – UN independent experts* today called on States to fully integrate human rights standards and principles in negotiations during the 27th Conference of the Parties to the UN...

Appoints Special Rapporteur on Situation of Human Rights in Russian Federation, Extends Mandates on Older Persons, Right to Development, Arbitrary Detention, Mercenaries, Slavery, Indigenous Peoples...

GENEVA (30 September 2022) – Ahead of the International Day of Older Persons on 1 October, Claudia Mahler, Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, said States should...

GENEVA (22 September 2022) – UN experts today urged authorities, candidates and political parties in Brazil to ensure upcoming general elections are peaceful and election-related violence is prevented...

The report is submitted to the Human Rights Council by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples pursuant to his mandate under Human Rights Council Resolution 42/20. In the report, the Special Rapporteur provides a thematic analysis of indigenous women and the development, application, preservation and transmission of scientific and technical knowledge.

GENEVA (8 August 2022) – UN human rights experts* today condemned the extensive, prolonged and repeated use of state of emergency measures since 2 April 2022 by Sri Lankan authorities to crackdown on...

GENEVA (8 August 2022) – The preservation of indigenous peoples’ communities, values and ways of life depend on indigenous women and girls regaining their roles as leaders within their communities, a...