Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Marta Hurtado Location: Geneva Date: 28 May 2021 We are concerned by challenges to the rule of law in Samoa following the 9 April elections...

APIA (6 March 2020) — In an historic extraordinary outreach session, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child met government officials, UN agencies, civil society and children to discuss the...

GENEVA (12 November 2018) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has published its findings on the countries it examined during its seventy-first session from 22 October...

Adopts Concluding Observations on the Reports of Nepal, Republic of the Congo, the Bahamas, Samoa, Mauritius, Tajikistan, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Lao People’s Democratic...

GENEVA (26 October 2018) - The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the sixth periodic report of Samoa on its implementation of the provisions of the...

GENEVA (18 October 2018) — The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is meeting in Geneva from October 22 to November 9 to review women’s rights in the following...

Apia (18 August 2017) – In their 10-day mission to Samoa, the expert group’s delegation, comprised of Kamala Chandrakirana and Eleonora Zielinska, held meetings in Apia, Poutasi, Vavaau and attended...