In the current COVID-19 context, people who use drugs face unique needs and risks, due to criminalisation, stigma, discrimination, underlying health issues, social marginalisation and higher economic...

Spanish GENEVA (9 April 2020) – Governments worldwide and the international financial institutions should remain true to their commitment under the 2030 agenda and to their promise “to leave no one...

GENEVA (26 March 2020) – The COVID-19 crisis cannot be solved with public health and emergency measures only; all other human rights must be addressed too, UN human rights experts* said today....

Chinese version GENEVA (23 March 2020) - UN human rights experts* expressed their grave concern about the welfare of three human rights defenders who were forcibly disappeared by the Chinese...

Summary In the report, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment examines conceptual, definitional and interpretative questions arising in...

GENEVA (17 March 2020) – UN human rights experts* have urged the Emirati authorities to investigate and reform detention conditions that amount to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or...

GENEVA (6 March 2020) – A group of UN experts* has called on men around the world to be a part of movements for gender equality and become women´s human rights defenders. "Now more than ever," they...

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 (28 February 2020) – A UN human rights expert has voiced alarm at the excessive use of solitary confinement by correctional facilities in the United States. "For years, my mandate has raised...

Human Rights Council 28 February 2020 Concludes General Debate on High Commissioner's Oral Update and on Country Reports and Updates by the Secretary-General and the Office of the High Commissioner...