How do you make a legal document about children, child-friendly? Get the children to re-write it. The legalese of the Child Rights Committee’s recent publication of General Comment 25, on the rights of children in the digital environment received a user-friendly make over. In Our Own Words is a collaboration…

For the last decade, the Convention for the Protection of all Persons against Enforced Disappearances and the Committee on Enforced Disappearances have carried out sustained dialogues with governments, families and others to highlight and sometimes find the missing. In 2005, Isatou Jammeh’s father and aunt disappeared while at work on…

The Human Rights Committee has given the highest ratings to two countries for their follow-up on recommendations on combatting discrimination and strengthening human rights institutions. — In 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Human Rights Committee has continued its work reviewing States parties to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights under its follow-up to concluding observations procedure.

“The Berkeley Protocol on digital and open source investigations” is the first international protocol on using social media as evidence of human rights violations. A joint publication of the UN Human Rights Office and UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Centre it offers global guidance on using public digital information. …

A Technical Assistance Team was mandated by the UN Human Rights Council to support judicial investigations into serious crimes in the Kasai provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We follow them on one of their visits to a location where a massacre took place. The splatter on the…

On World Statistics Day, UN Human Rights Chief of Methodology, Education and Training Francesca Marotta explains how a human rights approach to data can rebuild public confidence. By Francesca Marotta The observance of World Statistics Day on 20 October happens when public trust in data and statistics is being weakened…

Civil society organizations in Chad have been at the forefront of the advocacy for the abolition of the death penalty. Salomon Nodjitoloum, member of a coalition of NGOs who actively campaigned in favour of abolition, recalls the path that led to ending the death penalty. — By deciding to end the death penalty for terrorism-related offences in May 2020, Chad has joined some 170 States across the globe that either have abolished the death penalty in law, or do not carry out executions.

Solidarité feminine pour la paix et le développement intégral (SOFEPADI), an NGO founded by women in the north east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, helps women, children and men victims of conflict related sexual violence heal their physical and psychological wounds, and fights impunity for crimes in Ituri. — The large compound holds buildings painted in vivid colours. Patients waiting for their turns sit silently on wooden benches lined up in open corridors. Mothers with new-borns and older children, elderly women and a lone, taciturn ageless man ready to meet the counsellors and medical staff.

By Laurent Sauveur, Director of External Relations, UN Human Rights Today, on International Mother Language Day, I am pleased to announce the results of the #WikiForHumanRights campaign that the UN Human Rights Office, the Wikimedia Foundation, and Wikipedia volunteers launched on December 10th. This partnership is an effort by our…