GENEVA (10 April 2014) – International human rights reporting received a significant boost after the UN General Assembly on Wednesday approved steps to strengthen the system for reviewing how member...

Statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Marzuki Darusman, at the end of his visit to Japan, 8 to 10 April 2014 TOKYO (10...

GENEVA (10 April 2014) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today expressed alarm at the denial of medical care to two political prisoners in Iran who are at risk of dying in detention due...

GENEVA (9 April 2014) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention was due to conduct its first official visit to the Republic of Nauru to assess the situation of deprivation of liberty...

GENEVA (9 April 2014) - Lithuania violated the political rights of ex-president Rolandas Paksas when it introduced a rule to ban anyone who had been impeached from running for or holding high office...

GENEVE (9 avril 2014) – L’Experte indépendante sur la situation des droits de l’homme en République centrafricaine, Marie-Thérèse Keita Bocoum, entamera sa seconde visite dans le pays du 10 au 18...

NEW YORK / KINSHASA (9 April 2014) – Rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remain very serious concerns, with thousands of victims, in particular in the east of the...