GENEVA (30 August 2014) – Two United Nations expert groups on enforced disappearances call on States “to remove all obstacles” to aid investigations into the fate of disappeared persons. On the...

KYIV/ GENEVA (29 August 2014) – Intense fighting, including the use of heavy weaponry by both sides, in densely populated areas of eastern Ukraine, has increased the loss of civilian life, with an...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 29 August 2014 ROUNDUP Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of El Salvador, United States, Peru, Cameroon, Iraq, Japan...

GENEVA (28 August 2014) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will convene in Geneva on 1 and 2 September to launch a global consultation* on the draft principles and guidelines on...

GENEVA / SANTIAGO (28 August 2014) – The United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice will undertake its first official visit to Chile from 1 to 9 September 2014...

Committee on Rights of Migrant Workers BACKGROUND RELEASE 28 August 2014 Committee to Review Reports of Belize and Ghana The twenty-first session of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of...

Committee on the Rights of the Child BACKGROUND RELEASE 28 August 2014 Situation of Children’s Rights in Croatia, Fiji, Hungary, Morocco, Singapore, Venezuela to be Reviewed The Committee on the...