GENEVA (30 December 2022) – UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today called for a coordinated regional approach to protect the thousands of desperate Rohingya who risk their lives by undertaking...

GENEVA (17 June 2022) – A UN human rights expert today urged the United Kingdom to halt plans to transfer asylum seekers to Rwanda and expressed serious concern that the country’s asylum partnership...

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Greece on how it implements the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of All...

GENEVA (4 February 2021) – A group of UN experts * welcomed the US decision to stop using privately run federal prisons and urged the Biden Administration to also end outsourcing of all detention...

​Statement by Felipe González Morales, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants 29 May 2020 The closure by Hungary of the "transit zones" where asylum seekers were automatically detained...

GENEVA (8 April 2020) – The UN child rights committee has applauded Denmark’s decision to grant asylum to the mother of six Syrian refugee children living in the country. The Danish government’s...

Greek version GENEVA (23 March 2020) – Greece must take immediate action to end the violence against migrants and asylum seekers at the Turkey-Greece border and enhance their protection, a UN human...

GENEVA (21 January 2020) – In its first ruling on a complaint by an individual seeking asylum from the effects of climate change, the UN Human Rights Committee* has stated that countries may not...

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 9 October 2019 Experts also Express Concerns about the Justiciability of Rights Enshrined in the Covenant The Committee on Economic, Social and...