Ricardo Hernández, winner of the 2023 Breach/Valdez Award for Journalism and Human Rights, believes the right to a free press is essential for the protection and promotion of other fundamental human rights. In Mexico, the price for that right can be death.

Journalist and activist Griselda Triana fights for freedom of the press and for reparations for families of murdered, displaced, and disappeared journalists in Mexico – and she fights from personal experience.

“We should stop shutting our eyes to widespread or systematic destruction of civilian homes in conflict,” said Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. Rajagopal has named these systematic or widespread destruction of homes during conflicts: domicide. He is calling on governments to recognize it as an international crime.

In Ituri, DR Congo, UN Human Rights is supporting the fight against impunity for conflict-related sexual violence. Our partner, SOFEPADI, has become a crucial entry point for survivors seeking justice.