GENEVA (4 July 2014) – A group of UN human rights experts* today called on the Government of Nepal to amend new legislation allowing for amnesties in cases of serious violations of human rights and...

GENEVA / TEGUCIGALPA (27 June 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo will undertake her first official country visit to...

GENEVA (16 June 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo, warned that persisting and new challenges still obstruct efforts...

GENEVA (19 May 2014) – A group of UN human rights experts Monday expressed alarm after Meriam Ibrahim, a Christian woman pregnant with her second child, was sentenced to death and 100 lashes for...

GENEVA (8 May 2014) – A group of United Nations and African human rights experts on Thursday called on the Boko Haram armed group to immediately release the girls abducted in Borno State, Nigeria. The...

LONDON / GENEVA (16 April 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, today urged the Government of the United Kingdom to consider the best interests of...

LONDON (15 April 2014) – At the end of a 16-day mission to the United Kingdom, which took her to London, Leicester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Cookstown, Cardiff and Bristol, Ms. Rashida Manjoo, UN...

GENEVA (04 April 2014): The United Nations Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and in Practice welcomes the recent adoption and promulgation of the new Constitution of the Republic of...

GENEVA (28 March 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo will visit the United Kingdom from 31 March to 15 April 2014 to study the main manifestations of violence perpetrated in the...

Chairperson, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and gentlemen, It is a pleasure for me to address you today, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 7/24. This year we mark the...