GENEVA (1 December 2020) – As the world looks beyond COVID-19, UN human rights experts have urged States to ensure that people with disabilities are fully included in the "building back better" process. To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3 December 2020), they issue the following remarks:

22-23 October 2020, Almaty, Ramada Hotel – IOM Sub-regional Coordination Office for Central Asia in Kazakhstan organized and facilitated the first ever regional semi-online event on Data Collection in Central Asia and the Russian Federation (DTM).

GENEVA (8 July 2020) – Women journalists face special dangers while doing their jobs, and governments must do more to protect them against gender-based violence, Dubravka Šimonović, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, said today in a report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Nearly 80 million women, children, and men around the world have been forced from their homes as refugees or internally displaced people. Even more shocking: ten million of these people fled in the past year alone.

On World Refugee Day, we pledge to do everything in our power to end the conflict and persecution that drive these appalling numbers.

Full text of the Secretary-General's Policy Brief on People on the Move can be found here.

COVID-19 continues to devastate lives and livelihoods around the globe — hitting the most vulnerable the hardest.

• Decorated ice hockey champion ‘Slava’ Fetisov has dedicated himself to supporting the environment.
• Fetisov’s new title is assigned on World Environment Day, the UN’s biggest day for encouraging environmental awareness-raising and action.

Viacheslav Fetisov. Photo: UNEP