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Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

26 August 2024

Ukraine

Supporting justice and accountability in Ukraine

The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation is inflicting immense suffering on the people of Ukraine. Civilians in Russia are also increasingly affected by the conflict. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine monitors and reports on the human rights situation on the ground, with the aim of protecting human rights and promoting justice and accountability.
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A billboard with photographs of missing persons.

30 August 2024

Enforced and involuntary disappearances

Mexico’s disappeared: Pain serves as an engine for collective struggle

A man and three women hold candles in their hands

20 August 2024

Resilience and dynamism will advance human rights in Guatemala

A man and a woman stand on a stone near a river

14 August 2024

Honduras passes historic law to protect the environment

A person holding a bowl with herbs.

08 August 2024

Indigenous Peoples

Indigenous Peoples: “Isolation is a strategy of collective preservation”

Three people are depicted against a purple background

28 June 2024

Sexual orientation and gender identity

Podcast: Speaking out on equality for all

Journalists interview a politician at a press briefing. © Getty

03 May 2024

Freedom of opinion and expression

Mexican actor Diego Luna and director Santiago Maza advocate for the right to freedom of expression

World Press Freedom Day © OHCHR

03 May 2024

Freedom of opinion and expression

Podcast: World Press Freedom Day

Two policemen stand behind a group of people protesting in the street. © Getty Images / Lalocracio

12 April 2024

Freedom of association and assembly

Giving law enforcement valuable tools to protect peaceful protests

Journalist wearing a press helmet angles his camera. © Carlos Herrera

06 March 2024

Freedom of opinion and expression

Press freedom in Central America: Silence is not an option

Activists protesting to save the planet. © Getty

22 February 2024

Podcast: Defending dignity with Hassan Shire

2023 award winner Bianca Batlle Nguema painting in her workshop in Tiana, a village close to Barcelona, Spain. © Martina Orobitg and Ariadna Tarifa

12 February 2024

Memory meets art in International Contest for Minority Artists

Suamhirs Piraino-Guzman and his service dog (right), sitting for a conversation with UN High Commissioner Volker Türk, 29 November 2023, Geneva, Swizterland © OHCHR/Philippe Liondjo

01 December 2023

Human trafficking

Trafficking survivor wants to “make human rights mainstream”

A child sitting on a drying lake underneath an orange-coloured polluted sky. ISTOCK / GETTY IMAGES PLUS

16 November 2023

Climate change

Link between humans and the environment must be preserved

Volker Türk leading a group of colleagues, friends and family during the memorial ceremony. ©OHCHR/Pierre Albouy

18 August 2023

Human rights work

“Their fighting spirit has stayed with us”

Gassed protesting woman, supported by the Medics after fainting after breathing tear gas. Toulouse (France) December 29, 2018. © Credit Patrick Batard / ABACAPRESS.COM

18 July 2023

Freedom of association and assembly

“Endemic impunity” is affecting the freedom to protest