World Habitat Day, Monday 3 October 2011 GENEVA (3 October 2011) – “Not much to celebrate on World Habitat Day, when close to a third of the global population continues to live in slums and unplanned...

Old age… is it bad for your rights? GENEVA (1st October 2011) – “In a rapidly ageing word, many older persons would agree that old age is bad for your rights,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on the...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva 30 September 2011 (1) Bahrain We are concerned about the harsh sentences handed down this week by the Court...

MORNING 30 September 2011 Extends Mandate of Expert on Haiti, Decides to Hold Seminar on Climate Change and Panel on Promoting Human Rights through Sport and the Olympics The Human Rights Council this...

Brasília, 30 September 2011 – The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) presented today its confidential preliminary observations to the Government of Brazil, in conclusion of its...

AFTERNOON 30 September 2011 Suspends Eighteenth Session after Adopting Texts on Burundi, Right to Development, Funding of High Commissioner’s Office, Unilateral Measures and Racism The Human Rights...

30 September 2011 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today held a Day of General Discussion with regard to children of incarcerated parents. It held two workshops on babies and children living...

ROUND UP 30 September 2011 Adopts 31 Resolutions, 2 Presidential Statements, Appoints New Special Procedures Mandate Holders, and Extends Mandates of Special Rapporteurs The Human Rights Council...

MORNING 29 September 2011 Also Adopts Texts on Minorities, Mercenaries, International Solidarity, Indigenous Peoples, and Cooperation with the United Nations in Field of Human Rights The Human Rights...

29 September 2011 Seventeen Countries Will Have Their Human Rights Records Examined Seventeen States will have their human rights records examined during the twelfth session of the Human Rights...