21 October 2014 The General Assembly today elected 15 States to serve on the Human Rights Council, the United Nations body responsible for the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. All...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 21 October 2014 The twentieth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 27 October to 7 November during which...

NEW YORK/GENEVA (21 October 2014) - States must do more to tackle corruption as part of efforts to prevent and eliminate torture and ill-treatment, a key UN torture prevention body says. “There is a...

NEW YORK / GENEVA (21 October 2014) – The adoption of the Convention against Torture 30 years ago was a major advance in human rights protection but States must now fully abide by their convention...

NEW YORK (21 October 2014) – To be ‘effective’, an investigation into torture must be prompt, impartial, independent and thorough, but that seems to be the exception in many countries, the United...

جنيف/ بغداد (19 تشرين الأول 2014) - يوَّثِّق تقرير نشرته الأحد كلٌّ من بعثة الأمم المتحدة لمساعدة العراق (UNAMI) ومكتب المفوضية السامية للأمم المتحدة لحقوق الإنسان (OHCHR) الإرتفاع المثير للقلق في...

GENEVA (20 October 2014) -- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, expressed serious concern on Monday at the continued detention of Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo...

20 October 2014 Upon invitation from civil society organisations, we visited the city of Detroit (Michigan - USA) from 18 to 20 October 2014. The purpose of this informal visit was to learn more about...

نيويورك / جنيف ( 20 تشرين الأول/أكتوبر 2014 ) - أختتم مساعد الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة لحقوق الإنسان السيد أيفان سيمونوفيتش يوم الأحد 19 تشرين الأول مهمته التي استمرت أسبوعاً للبلاد بلقاء جمعه مع رئيس...