GENEVA (18 April 2013) – A United Nations group of independent experts on business and human rights will undertake an information-gathering visit to the United States from 22 April to 1 May 2013, to...

GENEVA (17 April 2013) – United Nations expert Cephas Lumina will visit Greece from 22 to 27 April 2013 to assess the impact of the austerity measures adopted in response to the country’s current...

GENEVA (18 April 2013) – Two United Nations experts on the right to food and foreign debt today raised the alarm over the World Bank-led privatization of the Burundian coffee sector, and called for...

Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families 18 April 2013 The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today...

GENEVA (18 April 2013) – A group of United Nations independent experts on extreme poverty, indigenous peoples, right to food and foreign debt called on the Word Bank to adopt human rights standards...

Summary The Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, as part of the mandate given by the Human Rights Council in its resolution 17/4...

GENEVA (17 April 2013) – The United Nations Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Shamsul Bari, condemned in the strongest terms Sunday’s deadly bomb and gun attacks at the...

GENEVA (17 April 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, will visit India from 22 April to 1 May 2013, in what will be the first visit to assess the...