UN Human Rights is helping fight discrimination in Georgia, especially around the issue of sexual orientation. A recent workshop trained LGBTQI groups in using international human rights mechanisms and procedures to amplify their fight for rights.
GENEVA (2 September 2022) – Chile’s referendum for a new constitution on Sunday will provide an opportunity to recognise the right to adequate housing in its domestic legal order, a UN expert said...
GENEVA (24 June 2022) - UN human rights experts* today denounced the decision by the US Supreme Court to strike down Roe v. Wade, a near half-century legal precedent that has protected women’s right...
UN human rights experts* today denounced a shocking and dangerous decision by the Supreme Court of the United States to strike down a nearly fifty-year-old legal precedent that has protected women’s...
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...
Connected to the Ocean since childhood, for Titouan Bernicot a self-made ocean conservationist – says that was his playground and he wants to save it by planting coral reefs.
A surge on war on drugs, for small possession, violates human rights. It impacts on the right to health and is not effective. Participants, at an event held at the margins of the current session of UN...
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.