The Committee against Torture this morning closed its seventy-eighth session after adopting its concluding observations on the reports of Burundi, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Kiribati and Slovenia on...

GENEVA (24 November 2023) - The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) today issued its findings on Burundi, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Kiribati and Slovenia, after reviewing the six States parties in...

The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the fourth periodic report of Slovenia, with Committee Experts praising the State’s national preventive mechanism as one of the most...

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Egypt on its efforts to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture, with...

GENEVA (27 October 2023) – The UN Committee against Torture will hold its latest session from 30 October to 24 November 2023, during which it will examine Burundi, Costa Rica, Kiribati, Denmark, Egypt...

GENEVA ( 19 July 2023) – The UN Human Rights Office is alarmed by the sentencing yesterday of Egyptian researcher and human rights defender Patrick George Zaki to three years in prison, on account of...

The United Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (the “Special Committee”)...

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its one hundred and thirty-seventh session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Egypt, Panama, Peru, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan and...

GENEVA (24 March 2023) – The UN Human Rights Committee today issued its findings on Egypt, Panama, Peru, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan and Zambia, after examining the six States parties in its latest...