This publication features 11 stories written by female journalists from all over the world, sharing personal experiences with gender-based violence and threats in the exercise of their profession. The...

Hungary’s interventions in the media sector over the past decade could create risks for human rights in the upcoming elections, the UN expert on freedom of opinion and expression said at the end of an...

UN human rights experts* today called on Iran to repeal a wide-ranging new law that severely restricts access to abortion, contraception, voluntary sterilization services and related information, in...

We are concerned at events this week in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, where police stepped in to protect a mural of the convicted war criminal Ratko Mladic painted on a building in the city centre...

GENEVA (11 November 2021) — The UN Human Rights Committee today issued its findings on Germany, Ukraine, Armenia and Botswana, the States parties that it reviewed during its latest session. The...

GENEVA (11 November 2021) ̶ The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, Irene Khan, will visit Hungary from 15 to 22 November 2021. She will examine the enjoyment of the right to...

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted a report on follow-up to concluding observations concerning the Dominican Republic, Hungary, Jordan and Mauritius, as well as a report on follow-up to...

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted a report on follow-up to concluding observations concerning the Dominican Republic, Hungary, Jordan and Mauritius, as well as a report on follow-up to...

GENEVA (3 November 2021) - Eswatini’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Monday, 8 November 2021...