Experts welcome announcement to end UK-Rwanda asylum partnership
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )Independent human rights experts* today welcomed the decision by the newly elected UK Government to scrap the policy to transfer asylum seekers who meet certain conditions to Rwanda for asylum processing.
UN Committee on Migrant Workers publishes findings on Congo, Senegal and Türkiye
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )The findings contain the Committee’s main concerns and recommendations on the implementation of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers
“Small islands bear a climate crisis they did not create”
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Story )“The human rights framework is universal. It compels us to act. Not out of fear, but out of a commitment to solutions – rooted in justice and human dignity. Solutions that will actually work,” Türk said.
Special Rapporteur urges global action to recognise and combat prostitution as a system of violence against women and girls
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )Prostitution must be urgently recognised as a system of violence, exploitation and abuse, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, said
Making Strides in African Trade Statistics: Insights from two years with PAS II Service Contract
Stories & Blogs African Union (News )Over the past two years, the EU-funded Pan-African Statistics Programme II (PAS II) has embarked on an ambitious journey to enhance the landscape of International Trade in Goods and Services (ITGS) statistics in African Union (AU) Member States.
Continental guidelines for collecting Informal cross border trade statistics (ICBT) in Africa
Stories & Blogs African Union (News )The development of continental methodological guidelines and frameworks is essential to make sure that International Merchandise Trade Statistics are developed on an harmonized basis across the continent
Small Island Developing States summit: UN experts urge States and development banks to support endangered islands
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Press Release )UN human rights experts* today called for urgent action by States, financial institutions and development banks to support small island developing countries struggling with the triple burden of climate disasters, debt crisis and the aftermath of the COVID
Digital technologies at borders: A threat to people on the move
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Story )From the moment a person starts their migration journey, technologies are keeping track of their every move, especially at the borders.
State and community action needed to achieve racial justice
Stories & Blogs OHCHR (Story )UN Human Rights issued a seminal Agenda towards transformative change for racial justice and equality that offered a way forward for States to reverse cultures of denial, dismantle systemic racism and accelerate the pace of action.