Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date : 18 January 2013 Subjects : 1) Mali 2) Sri Lanka 3) Zimbabwe 4) Iran 1) Mali The crisis in Mali has...

GENEVA (18 January 2012) - The United Nations Independent Expert on the situation of Human Rights in Somalia, Shamsul Bari, condemned Friday the murder of another radio journalist in Mogadishu...

Committee on the Rights of the Child 18 January 2013 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of Guinea on its implementation of the provisions of the...

PANAMA CITY, 18 January 2013. The Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent wishes to thank the Government of Panama for its invitation to visit the country to study the situation of the...

GENEVA / MADRID (17 January 2013) - The United Nations Special Rapporteur on racism, Mutuma Ruteere, will carry out an official visit to Spain from 21 to 28 January 2013, to gather first-hand...

BRUSSELS / GENEVA (17 January 2013) – With a key European Parliament vote only days away, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, urged EU legislators to...

GENEVA / ATHENS (17 January 2013) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will undertake its first official fact-finding mission to Greece to assess the situation of deprivation of...

Committee on the Rights of the Child 17 January 2013 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of Malta on its implementation of the provisions of the...

Committee on the Rights of the Child 16 January 2013 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of the United States on its implementation of the provisions of...