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DEIR AL-BALAH, GAZA - DECEMBER 02: Injured people, including children, are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for treatment after an Israeli attack following the humanitarian pause between Israel and Palestinian resistance group Hamas in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on December 02, 2023. Ali Jadallah / Anadolu (Photo by Ali Jadallah / ANADOLU / Anadolu via AFP)

Press releases

03 December 2023

Palestine

Gaza: Unbearable suffering of civilians demands end to violence – Türk

Statements

01 December 2023

Persons with disabilities

Armed conflict puts human rights of people with disabilities and all civilians in peril: UN experts

Palestinians inspect the destruction around residential buildings following Israeli air strikes in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on December 1, 2023, as fighting resumed shortly after the expiration of a seven-day truce between Israel and Hamas militants.© Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP

Press releases

01 December 2023

Palestine

Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on resumption of hostilities in Gaza

Press releases

30 November 2023

Fossils fuels at the heart of the planetary environmental crisis: UN experts

People carry their belongings as they flee their neighbourhood Carrefour Feuilless after gangs took over, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti August 15, 2023. © REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Press releases

28 November 2023

Haiti

Haiti: UN report says gang violence spreading, urges speedy deployment of multinational security mission

Statements

28 November 2023

Colombia

Colombia: UN expert Antonia Urrejola concludes second official visit

Statements

28 November 2023

Burkina Faso

Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Seif Magango after at least 40 civilians killed by JNIM in Burkina Faso

Press releases

27 November 2023

Palestine

UN experts call for full and independent investigations into all crimes committed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

Statements

24 November 2023

Women

The international community must “walk the talk” on the safety and security of women and girls in times of armed conflict: UN experts

News

23 November 2023

Comment by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Seif Magango on market attack in Cameroon

Media advisories

20 November 2023

Colombia - UN human rights expert Antonia Urrejola to conduct second official visit

Relatives of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes mourn at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 19, 2023. © REUTERS

Press releases

19 November 2023

Palestine

Horrendous Gaza violence must stop

Statements and speeches

17 November 2023

Palestine

“Protection of civilians is absolutely top priority” - Türk briefs UN General Assembly on Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

Statements

17 November 2023

Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Violence in Amhara region

A Sudanese woman, who fled the conflict in Geneina in Sudan's Darfur region, mourns her son and a relative, who according to her, were killed by Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Chad July 25, 2023. © REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Press briefing notes

17 November 2023

Sudan

Sudan: Killings in Ardamata