GENEVA (4 September 2023) – UN experts* today raised the alarm about reports of serious human rights violations and abuses in the Northeast State of Manipur in India, including alleged acts of sexual...

This report takes a look at the global housing affordability crisis and its impact, and sets out recommendations for preventing escalating housing costs, protecting tenants, and addressing the unaffordability of housing.

GENEVA (27 June 2023) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) found that Cambodia’s lack of action to protect a rural woman rights defender from forced eviction...

What does #development rights mean to you? Is it a skyscraper or more money. A new global legal document promotes equality bridging all rights to development.

GENEVA (22 May 2023) – UN experts* today expressed serious concern about a law recently amended by Peru's Congress that would make renting housing to migrants without regular migration status...

GENEVA (13 April 2023) – The international community must take immediate action to stop Israel’s forced evictions and displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem as part of Israel’s annexation and...

GENEVA (4 April 2023): UN experts* today expressed solidarity with the people of Malawi in the wake of devastating Tropical Cyclone Freddy that has killed and injured hundreds, creating an...

AFTERNOON 3 April 2023 The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 22 resolutions, extending mandates on South Sudan, Nicaragua, human rights defenders, minority issues, torture, freedom of...

GENEVA (8 March 2023) – The world must take urgent steps towards achieving just, human rights-based, climate-resilient and carbon-neutral housing for all, the UN’s independent housing rights expert...

GENEVA (1 March 2023) – UN experts* today expressed concern about persistent allegations of increased militarisation and human rights violations surrounding Mandalika, an urban development and tourism...