This statement was delivered by Human Rights Watch at the 61st regular session of the UN Human Rights Council during an interactive dialogue with the UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine held on March 12, 2026.

HRW Oral Statement - ID with Independent Expert on Albinism - HRC61

The UN has adopted a landmark resolution to create an independent mechanism to investigate past and ongoing rights abuses in Afghanistan.This is a significant step to break the cycle of impunity in the country.

In the final episode of Ken Roth’s Exit Interviews, Ken is joined by former German Ambassador to the United Nations Christoph Heusgen to discuss the state of human rights in 2022.

In the first of Ken Roth’s Exit Interviews, we look at the last three decades at the United Nations. With HRW United Nations Director Louis Charbonneau and BBC journalist Imogen Foulkes.

Following an emergency UN Security Council meeting on the Russia-Ukraine war, Louis Charbonneau and Rachel Denber discuss HRW’s investigation into war crimes and human rights abuses.

Ahead of an informal United Nations meeting on accountability for serious crimes in Ukraine, HRW staffers discuss justice efforts for Ukraine.

A cross-regional joint statement delivered by Peru on behalf of 53 States at the 38th session of the Human Rights Council in June expressed concern at the human rights and humanitarian crisis in the country and called for continued reporting by the Office of the High Commissioner. The Human Rights Council should respond to that call and adopt a resolution this session to ensure continued reporting by the High Commissioner, and discussion of those reports by the Council so that it may consider an appropriate response to the deteriorating situation in Venezuela.

The United Nations Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen during its current session in Geneva. The parties on both sides of Yemen’s armed conflict are committing laws-of-war violations and human rights abuses with impunity.

Leila Swan's statement for Human Rights Watch at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on September 22, 2017.