The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Uzbekistan under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Committee Experts commended the...

GENEVA (31 May 2022) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Government of Saudi Arabia to immediately release Abdullah al-Howaiti and quash the death penalty against him for crimes he...

Chinese | Russian | Spanish GENEVA (7 May 2020) – The soaring number of COVID-19 cases in Belarus should compel the Government to immediately release children and young people imprisoned for drug...

Arabic version GENEVA (6 March 2020) – UN human rights experts* urge the Egyptian authorities to release four Egyptians minors who have been tried through a process tainted with credible allegations...

Russian GENEVA (20 November 2019) – A UN human rights expert on Belarus has expressed grave concerns about children serving sentences of up to 11 years in jail for drug-related offences. Since the age...

GENEVA (3 May 2019) – The execution of two 17-year-old boys in Iran on charges of rape and robbery, after a trial that appears to have seriously breached fundamental due process guarantees, is...

Spanish 22 October 2015 On the eve of a precedent-setting negotiation, we express our strong support for the efforts by governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to agree on a regional instrument...

6 June 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child concluded today its thirty-third session and issued its conclusions and recommendations on the situation of children in Eritrea, Cyprus, Zambia...

CRC 33rd session 4 June 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the initial report of Kazakhstan on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the...

CRC 33rd session 3 June 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of Syria on how that country implements the provisions of the Convention on the Rights...