Dear Experts Distinguished Delegates, Colleagues and Friends, It is a pleasure to welcome you to the fifth session of the Expert Mechanism on the Right Development which is being held in New York for...

Your Excellencies, Today, as I take the floor for the first time before you as the UN SR in the field of Cultural Rights, I am more than aware that all our eyes remain firmly in Ukraine . And how else...

The Human Rights Council this afternoon started an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights. Alexandra Xanthaki, Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural...

GENEVA/NEW YORK (7 March 2022) – The Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development , a subsidiary body of the Human Rights Council, will hold its 5th session from 9 to 11 March 2022 in New York in...

GENEVA (7 March 2022) - The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Monday published its findings on Bahrain, Belarus, Czech Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Serbia and...

GENEVA (4 March 2022) - The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its seventy-first session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Bahrain...

GENEVA (4 March 2022) – With at least 19 children killed and 31 injured in the armed conflicts during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the past few days, the UN Child Rights Committee today demanded...

The report examines how spatial segregation undermines the equal enjoyment of the right to adequate housing and other interrelated human rights.