GENEVA (16 February 2023) – UN human rights experts* today expressed grave concern about reports that at least 10 boys, some as young as 12 years old were allegedly taken away from Camp Roj during the...

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon heard from representatives of non-governmental organizations about the situation of women’s rights in Bahrain...

GENEVA (10 February 2023) – United Nations experts have expressed grave concern over the deaths of Keenan Anderson on 3 January 2023 at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department and Tyre Nichols...

Denmark failed to take effective measures against racist hate speech by discontinuing its investigation about an art exhibition showing racist hate images, the UN Committee on the Elimination of...

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon heard from representatives of non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions about the situation...

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its eighty-fourth session, hearing a statement from Andrea Ori, Chief of the Groups in Focus Section, Human Rights...

GENEVA (2 February 2023) - The ad hoc Conciliation Commission established by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has decided to end its work. The Commission was set up...

A video explaining the Durban Declaration and Progamme of Action.

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Nazila Ghanea, sets out her vision of how she plans to carry out the mandate, undertakes a landscaping exercise of freedom of religion or belief activities and draws out the implications for the mandate, its work and her approach thereto.

GENEVA (23 January 2023) – 130 million girls are denied the human right to education around the world, UN experts* said today, calling on States to step up efforts for the realisation of this...