JUBA, 5 January 2020 --Members of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan will undertake their eighth mission to the country during the period of 3-9 February 2020. The...

Kyrgyz version | Russian End of mission statement From 6 to 17 December 2019, at the invitation of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, I conducted a mission to evaluate the current situation of...

Amharic version From 2 to 9 December, at the invitation of the Government, I conducted the first mission to Ethiopia by a mandate-holder of the United Nations (UN) Special Procedures since 2006...

​Arabic | ​French GENEVA (4 December 2019) – UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education Koumbou Boly Barry will visit Qatar from 8 to 16 December to assess efforts in the country to implement the...

Russian GENEVA (4 December 2019) – The UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Fernand de Varennes, will visit Kyrgyzstan from 6 to 17 December 2019 to gather first-hand information on the situation...

Spanish GENEVA, 2 December 2019 – The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Coly Seck (Senegal), announced today the appointment of Marta Valiñas (Portugal), Francisco Cox Vial (Chile) and...

​French GENEVA / BAMAKO (2 December 2019) – The security situation in Mali has now reached a critical level, with a limited presence of State institutions in some areas, unprecedented incidents of...

Geneva, Dhaka (18 November 2019) – A delegation of the United Nations Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (the “Myanmar Mechanism”), led by the Head of the Myanmar Mechanism, Mr. Nicholas...

GENEVA (15 November 2019) – The UN Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Mali, Alioune Tine, will visit the country from 19-28 November 2019. His visit follows the killing on 1 November...

On 25 October 2019, following protests and social upheaval in Chile, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announced that a team would conduct a visit to the country.1 A group...