9 August 2012 The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning discussed follow-up to reports of the Committee submitted to the Human Rights Council on the promotion of the right of peoples to...

GENEVA (9 August 2012) – Disregard for international human rights and humanitarian law has led to a “severe internal displacement crisis in Syria, as the conflict intensifies,” the UN Expert on the...

GENEVA (9 August 2012) – The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances* will visit Chile from 13 to 21 August 2012. During the mission, the UN experts will examine the...

8 August 2012 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth to twenty-second periodic report of Ecuador on how that country is...

The UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (9 August 2012)...

8 August 2012 The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today continued its consideration of requests addressed to the Advisory Committee stemming from Human Rights Council resolutions and discussed...

KABUL/GENEVA (8 August 2012) – In the first six months of 2012, conflict-related violence in Afghanistan continued to take a devastating toll on civilians, the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan...

AFTERNOON 6 August 2012 The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon took up the preliminary study on promoting human rights and fundamental freedoms through a better understanding of...

7 August 2012 The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today discussed issues relating to human rights and terrorist hostage-taking and human rights and international solidarity. With regards to...