GAR 2019 – A guided tour Chapter 1: How we got to now This chapter provides background on a decades-long shift that has brought us to the...

https://thehill.com/branded-content?prx_t=_u8EAAAAAAx9EMA&prx_ro=s Over the years, human rights advocates from the United Nations to...

First official visit by UN leprosy expert since creation of mandate Nearly 27,000 new cases reported in Brazil in 2017, up from previous...

La Comisión Política de la Asamblea Legislativa examina desde el 14 de mayo de 2019 un borrador de artículos para una nueva ley de...

NUR-SULTAN (17 May 2019) – An independent UN expert welcomed Kazakhstan’s repatriation of 231 of its citizens from conflict sites in...

Photo: ONU/Manuel Elias Martin Griffiths, Envoyé spécial du Secrétaire général pour le Yémen, informe le Conseil de sécurité des Nations...

Mongolian ULAANBAATAR (May 2019) – Mongolia must ensure that reforms to its legal framework promote rather than restrict the work of...

The UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to...

https://youtu.be/t2lvyVh0fFE?t=32 Each year, 1.25 million people die as a r esult of road traffic crashes and as many as 50 million...

What is the UN Young Professionals Programme? The Young Professionals Programme (YPP) is a recruitment initiative for talented, highly...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has made proposals to reform the United Nations since the beginning of his term in January 2017. To...

The above are among the States parties to the Child Rights Convention and its Optional Protocols, and so are required to undergo regular...

Your Excellency, Honourable Prime Minister Bainimarama, Distinguished Ministers and Members of Parliament, I am delighted to be here...

Amb. Umarov had a fruitful discussion with @UN_PGA on the importance of strengthening multilateralism and implementing regional approach...

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique process which involves a review of the human rights records of all UN Member States. The...

International topics Ministers will hold a debate on digital taxation in the international context.  The Council presidency and the...

MEP candidates sign pledge to protect and uphold children’s rights if elected. Child rights organizations across Europe today have joined...

he Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs funds a substantial part of its work via voluntary contributions from UN member...

Lieutenant General Lollesgaard welcomes the handing over of the security of the ports to the coast guard and the efforts to remove all...