KUALA LUMPUR / GENEVA (14 November 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras will visit Malaysia from 19 November to 2 December 2014 to make an independent assessment of the realization...

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day - Saturday 11 October 2014 GENEVA (11 October 2014) – Unnecessary suffering of older persons for lack of pain medicines and palliative care at the end of their...

GENEVA (25 June 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteurs on torture and the right to health today urged the Parliament of Israel not to amend the Prisons Act to authorize the force-feeding and...

GENEVA (11 June 2014) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, on Wednesday blamed ‘junk food’ for the global obesity epidemic and urged the international community to deal...

GENEVA (16 May 2014) – “Interference with water supplies even in the context of an ongoing conflict is entirely unacceptable,” warned today two UN experts* on the rights to water and sanitation, and...