GENEVA/NEW YORK/VIENNA (6 October 2022) - With pandemics, complex humanitarian emergencies, and extreme climate-related crises posing significant global challenges, UN rights experts* remind all...

AFTERNOON -15 March 2022 The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard from the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, who said that violence against children...

AFTERNOON 8 March 2021 Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict Says Abductions and Sexual Violence against Children are on the Rise as Respect for International Human Rights and...

NEW YORK/GENEVA (10 February 2021) – As the world marks Safer Internet Day, UN human rights experts* have urged the European Union to reach agreement on temporary legislation to allow for the...

The Human Rights Council this afternoon held separate interactive dialogues with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on violence against children, and the Special Representative of the...

GENEVA/NEW YORK (25 May 2020) – Four UN experts* on children's rights urge States to protect all children from sale, sexual exploitation and recruitment and use in hostilities with immediacy, and call...

Arabic | Chinese | French | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (7 April 2020) – UN human rights experts have appealed to States to boost child protection measures to help safeguard the welfare of millions of...

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 / NEW YORK (19 November 2019) – UN experts on human rights * have urged all States to sign up to a framework convention on the ethics of tourism, which they hailed as an important step forward...

New York, 11 November 2019 – Four United Nations High-Level Advocates express their concerns about the precarious human rights, humanitarian and security situation faced by thousands of people, mainly...