![Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/09/202109Americas_Venezuela_HRC.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=is8vJVBl)
![Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/09/202109Americas_Venezuela_HRC.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=is8vJVBl)
![Ziad Itani, a Lebanese actor, who was exonerated of spying for Israel, is carried after he was released by Lebanese authorities. Itani has accused security officials of torturing him and has called on authorities to investigate.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/multimedia_images_2019/201903mena_lebanon_ziad.jpg?itok=TsfNh81j)
June 22, 2022
Interactive Dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change
Human Rights Council 50th Session, Oral Statement under Item 3
June 22, 2022
Statement on Stockpile Destruction, Mine Ban Treaty Intersessional Meeting
Delivered by Steve Goose, Executive Director
![POM-2 antipersonnel mines and their KPOM-2 dispensers that Kharkiv emergency services cleared from near villages in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, April 17, 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2022/06/202206arms_landmines_POM2.jpg?h=6cf95ce4&itok=1H6mzDG4)
June 22, 2022
Statement on Cooperative Compliance, Mine Ban Treaty Intersessional Meeting
Delivered by Steve Goose, Executive Director
![A TM-62M anti-vehicle mine equipped with MVCh-62 pressure activated fuze cleared near Kyivka in Chernihiv region, Ukraine, after a tractor driver was killed by another TM-62 mine in the same field on May 23, 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2022/06/202206arms_landmines_TM62M.jpg?h=d215cc9d&itok=n0fWHvCV)
June 17, 2022
Final Consultations on a Political Declaration on the Use of Explosive Weapons in Populated Areas
Statement Delivered by Bonnie Docherty, Senior Researcher
![Жилой дом на проспекте Мира в Чернигове, поврежденный в результате удара российских войск 13 марта 2022 г. Фото сделано 19 апреля 2022 г.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2022/06/202206ccd_chernihiv_myru_residential_0.jpg?h=c2dd59e0&itok=vXZz_RUD)
June 16, 2022
Ukraine: Accountability Needed for Unlawful Attacks and Violations in Mariupol
HRW Statement - Item 2 Interactive Dialogue on High Commissioner's update on Mariupol - HRC50
![A resident looks at an apartment building damaged during heavy fighting near the Illich Iron & Steel Works Metallurgical Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 16, 2022.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2022/04/202204eca_ukraine_residentmariupol.jpg?h=9eb0d413&itok=GkQrTbC8)
June 16, 2022
UN Rights Chief Urged to Release Xinjiang Report and Correct Course Following China Visit
HRW Statement - Item 2 Interactive Dialogue on the High Commissioner's Annual Report - HRC50
![High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 17, 2020.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2022/03/202203asia_china_bachelet.jpg?h=31a53609&itok=KVHZ7ViM)
June 16, 2022
Gambia Should Take Concrete Steps for Ex-President Jammeh to Face Justice
Human Rights Watch joined 14 other groups in issuing the following statement
![Reed Brody (2d from R) with some of Jammeh's victims in Banjul in May 2021.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2021/06/202106africa_banjul_victims.jpg?h=06ac0d8c&itok=N6bbVaV-)
June 14, 2022
OPT/Israel: States should support work of UN Commission of Inquiry, take action to dismantle apartheid
HRW statement – Item 2 Interactive Dialogue with the Commission of Inquiry on the OPT/Israel – HRC50
![For 15 years, Israeli authorities have imposed sweeping restrictions on the movement of people into and out of the Gaza Strip.](/sites/default/files/styles/square/public/media_2022/06/202104mena_israelpalestine_gaza.jpg?h=2e111cc1&itok=aOaGTBum)
June 13, 2022