Thank you for inviting me to participate in this event. Over the past years, the reported number and severity of reprisals and intimidation against civil society – individuals and NGOs – cooperating...

Statement by Andrew Gilmour, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights 17 October 2017 Human rights around the world are currently under major attack. I feel it even in the rarefied atmosphere...

GENEVA (20 September 2017) - A major new UN report warns that a growing number of human rights defenders around the world are facing reprisals for cooperating with the UN on human rights. The report...

Human Rights Council 36th Session Geneva, 20 September 2017 Mr. President, Excellencies, colleagues There is something grotesque and entirely contrary to the Charter and spirit of the United Nations...

9 May 2017 Thank you, First Lady and President Carter, for your inspirational leadership and for this initiative. At the UN, your name is still an icon for commitment, courage, truth and human rights...

Allow me now to deliver a few remarks about reprisals. At the beginning of October, the Secretary-General announced here in Geneva that, after consultations with the High Commissioner, he had asked me...