GENEVA (9 December 2023) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Saturday raised the alarm about persistent and systematic attempts by the Attorney General’s Office in Guatemala to...

Seventy-five years ago, in the ashes of World War Two, and the unprecedented human suffering it caused, nations laid out a way to build "the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world," by...

NASSAU (8 December 2023) – The Bahamas has made improvements on preventing arbitrary detentions, but further efforts are essential to advance legislative initiatives and ensure effective and inclusive...

Le Comité pour l’élimination de la discrimination raciale a clos cet après-midi les travaux de sa cent-onzième session qui se tenait à Genève depuis le 20 novembre dernier et au cours de laquelle il a...

GENEVA (8 December 2023) – Member States of the United Nations must use all measures at their disposal and their influence to promote an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, UN human rights...

GENEVA (8 December 2023) – The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice Jill Edwards, today welcomed partial reforms adopted by the UK’s House of Commons to the controversial Imprisonment for Public...

GENEVA (8 December 2023) – A UN expert today welcomed legislative strides towards protecting and promoting the human rights of children separated from their parents affected by Hansen's disease in...

GENEVA (8 December 2023) - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Friday issued its findings on Bolivia, Bulgaria, Germany, Morocco, South Africa and Viet Nam after...

The Genocide Convention is the first human rights treaty in the history of the United Nations, adopted on the eve of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Seventy-five years later, the two...

Non-official UN languages: Portuguese Português (Word) RIO DE JANEIRO (8 December 2023) – Brazil’s Government must end the brutal violence being inflicted on people of African descent by the country’s...