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...

The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights* welcomes a recent study for the European Commission on “due diligence requirements through the supply chain”, observing that it provides a solid and...

Spanish GENEVA (27 March 2020) – Society has a duty to exercise solidarity and better protect older persons who are bearing the lion's share of the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN human rights expert said....

​Thai version GENEVA / BANGKOK (12 March 2020) - A group of UN experts* have condemned the continued misuse of judicial processes by Thai poultry producer Thammakaset to harass and silence human...

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...

On Human Rights Day, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights together with the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders and a group of civil society organizations 1...

4 December 2019 Time to boost people’s participation in Sustainable Development Goals, say UN experts GENEVA (4 December 2019) – It is critically important for States to ensure the broadest public...

GENEVA (21 November 2019) – Governments are failing in their duty to protect people from human rights abuses by business and cannot put off action any longer, UN human rights experts have warned ahead...

NEW YORK (29 October 2019) – Governments must go beyond policy declarations and take concrete policy and regulatory measures across government if they are to prevent and address the impact of human...

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...