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  • Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Adviser on Genocide Prevention. As delivered by the UK.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Interactive Dialogue with the Special Adviser to the Secretary General on the Prevention of Genocide. Joint Statement by Sudan Core Group, delivered by the UK.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • UK Statement on role of digital & media in promotion & enjoyment of right to freedom of opinion & expression. Due to time constraints, this was not delivered.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • The Foreign Secretary made a statement on arrest warrants, issued on 3 July 2023 under the National Security Law, for 8 people living outside Hong Kong.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Interactive dialogue on Secretary-General's report on the adverse impact of climate change on the full realization of the right to food. As delivered by the UK.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Panel 1: Gender-based violence against women and girls in public and political life. Statement as delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Rita French.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • MPs voted in favour of the Holocaust Memorial Bill after a debate in Parliament

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur on rights to freedom of peaceful assembly & of association. Delivered by UK's Ambassador to WTO & UN, Simon Manley.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Seventy-one countries have called for the urgent removal of online child sexual abuse materials in the first of its kind 'call to action' at the United Nations.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • This call, signed by 71* United Nations member states, supports efforts to proactively remove and combat child sexual exploitation and abuse material online.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children. As delivered by the UK.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Statement for the Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to education. As delivered by the UK's Human Rights Ambassador, Rita French.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • This statement was delivered in advance of a vote on the 2023 - 2024 ILO budget. Delivered by Deputy Head of UK Mission to the UN & WTO in Geneva, Hema Kotecha.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Statement for Interactive Dialogue on the Working Group Report on human rights & transnational corporations & other business enterprises. Delivered by the UK.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions. Statement delivered by the UK.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities responds to points raised by Lisa Nandy MP about the contents of the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill 2022 to 2023.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers. Statement delivered by the UK.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants. Statement delivered by the UK.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, as delivered by the UK.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Interactive dialogue with Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes & consequences. Delivered by Human Rights Ambassador, Rita French.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government