GENEVA (19 July 2021) – UN human rights experts today expressed their utmost concern for the situation of human rights defenders in Myanmar, and called for a stronger international response to the...

Español GENEVA (16 July 2021) – With numerous protesters reportedly detained in Cuba since Sunday, including some held incommunicado, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on...

GENEVA (15 July 2021) - The death in custody of Catholic priest Stan Swamy, a renowned human rights and social justice advocate for over four decades, will forever remain a stain on India’s human...

GENEVA (15 July 2021) – A UN expert today expressed dismay at the continued widespread arrest and extended pre-trial detention of human rights defenders in Egypt, saying activists have been detained...

Human Rights Council 11 March 2021 Geneva Monsieur le Président du Conseil des Droits de l´Homme We are on the cusp of the 11th grim year of the crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic. With the...

Geneva, 9 July 2021, Palais des Nations Madam Vice President, Excellencies, Colleagues, It is my honour to present, on behalf of the High Commissioner, two reports on Ukraine – the OHCHR thematic...

Español ​ GENEVA (9July 2021) ̶ UN experts* today called on Honduras to stop arbitrarily detaining and criminalising human rights defenders of the Garifuna indigenous communities. The Garifuna, who...

Madam President, distinguished members of the Human Rights Council: In the five months since the government of Myanmar was overthrown in an illegal coup, two interlocking patterns have emerged: First...

AFTERNOON 7 July 2021 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with Tom Andrews, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, who said that the...

6 July 2021 Geneva Madame la Présidente du Conseil des Droits de l´Homme, Excellences , For over ten years the people of Syria have been ravaged by war. More recently, the pandemic and the current...