"DISCRIMINATION"

Addressing journalists after her mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said, “I am particularly concerned to hear that courts across Bosnia and Herzegovina have denied wartime survivors’ claims for compensation by imposing statutes of limitations.” OHCHR

Prevention crucial in upholding principle of responsibility to protect children, youth, speakers tell General Assembly.

Prevention crucial in upholding principle of responsibility to protect children, youth, speakers tell General Assembly.

Amid plummeting humanitarian conditions in Afghanistan, women, girls ‘are being written out of society’ by de facto authorities, briefers warn Security Council.

A group of United Nationss officers from a variety of expert backgrounds visited Sool and Sanaag, in Somaliland, to assess the human rights situation in the two regions, after a pause of a few years due in part to the COVID-19 pandemic. UNSOM

Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Warning incitement of racial, religious hatred can trigger atrocity crimes, Special Adviser stresses States’ legal obligation to prevent genocide.

The President of the 76th Session of the General Assembly, Abdulla Shahid, said that “cyberspace and social media together with the proliferation of disinformation and fake news have aggravated the effects of hate speech to unprecedented heights.” UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, applauds the lasting solution of peace that is inspiring thousands of Ivorians who fled past conflict to return home and rebuild their lives. UNHCR

Briefing reporters ahead of the International Day of Countering Hate Speech, UN Special Adviser on Genocide, Alice Nderitu said that hate speech is a "hydra-headed monster.” UNIFEED