The Permanent Mission of India and the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Geneva co-organised on Friday, 24 June 2022 a hybrid side event during the ongoing 50th regular session of the Human Rights Council on ‘Realising gender equality in the realisation of the rights to safe drinking water and sanitation’. The side event, which was held...

Olga and her children, from a village near Odesa, are among the 6 million Ukrainians refugees that have already crossed the borders into neighbouring countries since the Russian invasion began on 24 February. She and her husband were about to finish building a new house for their family when the bombs began to fall in early March. They had no basement to hide in, so they decided to flee. Olga, her...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not only an assault on multilateralism & an attack on the founding principles of the UN.  It is having humanitarian and economic consequences at a global level.

The Human Rights Council hold its fiftieth regular session from 13 June to 8 July 2022 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.