NEW YORK / GENEVA (4 November 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, Mutuma Ruteere, on Monday urged all States represented at the UN General Assembly “to take...

Committee against Torture 4 November 2014 The Committee against Torture marked today the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading...

4 November 2014, 15:00 Room XXVIII, Palais des Nations, Geneva Mr. Chairperson, Distinguished Members of the Committee against Torture, Excellences, Colleagues and friends, It is with great pleasure...

Thirty years have passed since the United Nations Convention against Torture entered into force, enshrining in international law an unequivocal prohibition of this heinous practice under all...

3 November 2014 The Committee against Torture this morning opened its fifty-third session, hearing a statement by the Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High...

يتضمّن هذا المنشور عرضًا تمهيديًا لحقوق الإنسان للمرأة، وهو يستهل ببيان الأحكام الأساسية الواردة في القانون الدولي لحقوق الإنسان ويعرج إلى شرح المفاهيم التي تنطوي على درجة خاصة من الوجاهة لفهم حقوق...