GENEVA (21 June 2021) – UN human rights experts* urged the Holy See to take all necessary measures to stop and prevent the recurrence of violence and sexual abuse against children in Catholic...

28 May 2021 Committee Experts Congratulate Tunisia for Being the First Nation Outside Europe to Sign the Lanzarote Convention The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration...

GENEVA (3 March 2021) – UN experts* today urged Nigeria to prioritise specialised rehabilitation measures for the hundreds of abducted children left deeply traumatised after their release and to...

MORNING 2 March 2021 The Human Rights Council this morning held an interactive dialogue with Mama Fatima Singhateh, Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, who said the...

NEW YORK/GENEVA (10 February 2021) – As the world marks Safer Internet Day, UN human rights experts* have urged the European Union to reach agreement on temporary legislation to allow for the...

GENEVA (30 November 2020) – The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk that people at the edges of society will be pushed into slavery, trafficking and/or sexual exploitation, and governments must...

GENEVA (16 September 2020) – COVID-19 risks pushing millions of children, women and men into contemporary forms of slavery and other forms of exploitation unless governments act now to protect them, a...

Russian | Spanish GENEVA (6 May 2020) – A UN human rights expert today warned that a reported surge in violence against children and new forms of sexual exploitation and abuse of them during COVID-19...