Human Rights Committee BACKGROUND RELEASE 11 October 2007 Experts to Review Reports of Georgia, Libya, Austria, Costa Rica and Algeria Reports submitted by the Governments of Georgia, Libya, Austria...

Baghdad, 11 October 2007--The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) issued its eleventh report on the human rights situation in the country covering the period 1 April to 30 June 2007. The report...

Geneva, 9 October 2007: High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour today expressed her dismay at the reported execution of 15 convicted prisoners on Sunday. "I am deeply troubled by this sudden...

Geneva, 8 October 2007 The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the United Nations Department for Economic and Social...

The eleventh meeting of States parties was held at the United Nations Office in Geneva on 8 October 2007. 5 new members of the Committee against Torture were elected to replace the five members whose...

Committee on the Rights of the Child ROUND-UP 5 October 2007 Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Venezuela, Bulgaria, France, Spain, Croatia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Qatar and Syria The...

3 October 2007 The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, Miloon Kothari, will undertake an...