GEVEVA (14 July 2021) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar called for emergency international engagement to address a “perfect storm” of factors that are fuelling...

47th session of the Human Rights Council Statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet. 5 July 2021 Excellencies, Colleagues, I am pleased to address you today. I...

​AFTERNOON 2 July 2021 Council Starts Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy and Concludes Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention The...

1 July 2021 The Human Rights Council this morning started an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, and concluded its...

Council Starts Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions 30 June 2021 AFTERNOON The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive...

24 June 2021 The Human Rights Council this morning started an interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to education in which she presented a report on the cultural dimension of...

24 June 2021 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity. It also concluded the interactive dialogue...

22 June 2021 The Human Rights Council this morning began an interactive discussion with the High Commissioner for Human Rights on her annual report after concluding its dialogue with the Special...

New York, 15 June 2021 Secretary-General, President, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates and participants, I wish to thank the Bureau for the invitation to participate in the opening of the [14th...

GENEVA (9 June 2021) – UN human rights experts* today called on leaders of the world’s largest economies to make sure people in the Global South get equal access to COVID-19 vaccines and not to allow...