NEW YORK (13 October 2021) – Efforts to improve counter-terrorism measures around the world are damaging human rights and the rule of law, a UN expert told the General Assembly today, calling for...

GENEVA (13 October 2021) — In a landmark decision, the UN Human Rights Committee found that Paraguay’s failure to prevent and control the toxic contamination of traditional lands, due to the intensive...

NEW YORK (12 October 2021) – Too many countries blame torture on rogue officials, deny systemic patterns of torture, and fail to hold torturers to account, an independent UN human rights expert today...

MORNING The Human Rights Council this morning extended mandates on the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Cambodia and Libya, appointed mandate holders, and...

GENEVA (11 October 2021) - In a historic ruling on the harmful effects of climate change on children’s rights, the Child Rights Committee has found that a State party can be held responsible for the...

The Human Right Committee this morning opened its one hundred and thirty-third session, during which it will examine the reports of Germany, Armenia, Botswana and Ukraine on their implementation of...

ROUNDUP Council Appoints Special Rapporteurs on Afghanistan, Burundi and on Human Rights and Climate Change, Renews Mandates on Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia...