Human Rights Council Elects Four Vice Presidents for 2024 Bureau Postpones Election of its President for Next Year to January 2024 Geneva (8 December 2023) The Human Rights Council, during an...

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Purpose and process These guidelines complement the Committee’s general comment No. 5 (2017) and its guidelines on the right to liberty and...

Summary Lawyers and legal practitioners play a crucial role in helping to ensure full respect for the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and access to justice. They do so by supporting...

The WGEPAD prepared these Operational Guidelines as a tool for UN Country Teams, Member States, financial and development institutions and all stakeholders to assist them to implement the 2030 Agenda...

Background The Committee on Enforced Disappearances and the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances recall that enforced disappearance is prohibited in all circumstances, and call on...

Background The Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, and the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child...

Published on 8 May 2019, reissued 28 August 2019 Background The guiding principles for the search for disappeared persons are based on the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons...