GENEVA (24 May 2019) — The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture is set to carry out its first visit to Ghana from 26 May to 1 June 2019 where it will examine the treatment of people...

Nepali version GENEVA (21 May 2019) — Nepal must adapt its definition of rape and other forms of sexual violence to meet international standards, the UN Human Rights Committee said in a decision...

Statement by Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights St Petersburg, 15 May 2019 Prime Minister Medvedev, Minister Konovalov, Distinguished panellists, Colleagues, Friends, Dobroye...

PHNOM PENH (9 May 2019) – A UN human rights expert urged Cambodians to change the political culture to one of dialogue with a focus on issues rather than people, as a way to move ahead and to create a...

Spanish MEXICO CITY / GENEVA (8 April 2019) – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Mexican government have today signed an agreement on the provision of guidance...

GENEVA (28 March 2019) – UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, will visit Bulgaria from 1 to 8 April 2019. “I look forward to assessing the...

GENEVA (28 March 2019) — The UN Human Rights Committee has published its findings on the civil and political rights record of countries it examined during its latest session: Angola, Eritrea, Estonia...

Statement by the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences GENEVA (20 March 2019) – At the closing of the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women, the...

​Spanish GENEVA (15 March 2019) — The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture is concerned about overcrowding in some places of deprivation of liberty in Costa Rica which it observed during its first...