​Español GENEVA/ WASHINGTON D.C. (1 July 2021) – Guatemala’s controversial new law targeting non-governmental organisations (NGOs) violates international human rights standards and could criminalize...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Liz Throssell Location: Geneva Date: 19 February 2021 We are increasingly concerned for the fate of civilians in Marib Governorate in...

​Statement by Felipe González Morales, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants 29 May 2020 The closure by Hungary of the "transit zones" where asylum seekers were automatically detained...

GENEVA (11 November 2019) - The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Rhona Smith, welcomes the partial lifting of some judicial restrictions on Cambodian political...

GENEVA (8 November 2019) – UN human rights experts* today criticised a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court upholding the government’s decision to revoke the work visa of Omar Shakir, the Israel and...

GENEVA (8 August 2019) – Royal decrees allowing all Saudi women to apply for passports and women aged 21 and above to travel independently without their guardians’ permission have been welcomed by UN...

Comments by the UN High Commissioner for Human rights on the latest report on DPRK: "The price is rights: The violation of the right to an adequate standard of living in the Democratic People’s...

GENEVA (17 September 2018) – UN independent experts* call on the Human Rights Council to urgently respond to verdicts condemning 75 protesters to death and 47 to life sentences in Egypt. On 8...

GENEVA (13 September 2018) - The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association, Clement Nyaletsossi Voulé, will conduct an official visit to Tunisia from 17 to 28...

Spanish GENEVA (9 August 2018) – UN human rights experts* urge the Government of Nicaragua to stop the repression following 100 days of unrest in which at least 317 people have been killed and 1,830...