GENEVA (3 October 2022) – Women and girls in the Tigray, Afar and Amhar are increasingly vulnerable to abduction and trafficking for sexual exploitation as they flee the conflict in Northern Ethiopia...
GENEVA (27 September 2022) – As the world recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and navigates the climate crisis, rethinking tourism must be a priority to ensure all children are protected from forced...
GENEVA (11 August 2022) – UN human rights experts* today expressed concern about the situation of children with disabilities in Ukraine placed in institutions and being displaced to other...
In the present report, submitted pursuant to General Assembly resolution 76/147, the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material, Mama Fatima Singhateh, describes the activities undertaken in relation to the discharge of her mandate since her previous report to the Assembly (A/76/144).
GENEVA (17 June 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, Mama Fatima Singhateh will conduct an official visit to Mauritius from 21-30 June 2022. The expert...
Propelled by the common goal to make human rights more accessible, an innovative partnership is ensuring human rights guidance is incorporated into the Sustainable Development Goals. How? It’s all thanks to a machine learning algorithm.
The Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Gerard Quinn, says that, although artificial intelligence can be of great benefit to people with disabilities, it also has well-known discriminatory impacts.
MORNING The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with Gerard Quinn, the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, on artificial intelligence in the...
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of the Kingdom of the Netherlands under the Convention on the Rights of the...
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution, child pornography and other child sexual abuse material, Mama Fatima Singhateh, presents a practical approach to addressing the sale and sexual exploitation of children by providing a set of concrete measures and good practices, collected from across the world, to tackle the sale of children for the purpose of child marriage and the sexual exploitation of children in prostitution, in the context of travel and tourism, and online.
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