Welcome to the United Nations 
OHCHR 
Select
Select
FILTERS APPLIED:
Showing 1 - 10 of 957 results
D10-test news
Content Category
English
Published Date
GENEVA (23 November 2023) – UN experts* today expressed alarm at the worldwide wave of attacks, reprisals, criminalisation and sanctions against those who publicly express solidarity with the victims...
Test CR D10
Speaking out on Gaza / Israel must be allowed: UN experts
Content Category
English
Published Date
GENEVA (23 November 2023) – UN experts* today expressed alarm at the worldwide wave of attacks, reprisals, criminalisation and sanctions against those who publicly express solidarity with the victims...
“Without a free press there is no democracy”
Content Category
English
Published Date
Ricardo Hernández, winner of the 2023 Breach/Valdez Award for Journalism and Human Rights, believes the right to a free press is essential for the protection and promotion of other fundamental human rights. In Mexico, the price for that right can be death.
Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people
Content Category
English
Published Date
GENEVA (16 November 2023) – Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today...
UN experts urge Bangladesh to seize Human Rights Council review as opportunity to address deteriorating human rights situation
Content Category
English
Published Date
GENEVA (14 November 2023) – The severe crackdown against workers demanding fair wages and political activists calling for free and fair elections, judicial harassment of journalists, human rights...
UN Human Rights Chief condemns rise in hatred
Content Category
English
Published Date
GENEVA (4 November 2023) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today strongly deplored the sharp rise in hatred globally - including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - since 7 October, while at the same...
Griselda Triana: Fighting for freedom of expression in Mexico
Content Category
English
Published Date
Thumbnail Feature Image
Journalist and activist Griselda Triana fights for freedom of the press and for reparations for families of murdered, displaced, and disappeared journalists in Mexico – and she fights from personal experience.
Journalists must be better protected from attacks, Türk declares
Content Category
English
Published Date
Journalism is crucial to human rights. Investigative journalism helps ensure that institutions are transparent and responsive. Objective information enables people to make sound choices and...