This chart shows the current status of national institutions accredited by the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions.

"Torture and other ill-treatment: the role of National Human Rights Institutions" Thank you for the opportunity to address this gathering, and my thanks also to the co-organizers of this conference...

Greetings to you all, and thank you for the invitation to speak at this important gathering. The Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs), and all African National Human Rights...

Parliaments and Human Rights: A Self-Assessment Toolkit was jointly prepared by OHCHR and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). The toolkit seeks to help parliaments better integrate human rights into...

The briefer provides examples of how international human rights mechanisms and courts and tribunals have helped people find justice, in the spirit of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

More than four decades after its adoption, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women remains an essential and ambitious guide for achieving gender equality across...

2023 is a milestone year for human rights. In addition to the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we also commemorate thirty years of the Paris Principles which set...

GENEVA (9 December 2022) – Extraordinary progress has been made to secure the rights of all persons since the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, UN experts said today, as the world...

This Practical Guide, jointly published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Equal Rights Trust (ERT), sets out in detail the content of comprehensive...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined 10 th to 12 th periodic reports of the United States of America, with Committee Experts...