BISHKEK / GENEVA (26 April 2013) – “The full extent of the sale and sexual exploitation of children in the Kyrgyz Republic remains unknown, due to the clandestine and underground nature of the...

GENEVA (26 April 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts* today called on the government of El Salvador to provide life-saving treatment to a 22 year old woman who has been...

GENEVA (26 April 2013) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention* will discuss more than 20 confidential cases concerning 20 different countries, from 29 April to 3 May 2013. It will...

ROUNDUP 26 April 2013 Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Colombia, Bolivia and Azerbaijan The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members...

Excellencies, Distinguished participants, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my pleasure to welcome you here today at the opening of OHCHR’s expert meeting, Rights in Crisis. We organized this meeting to...

Excellencies, Distinguished participants, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my pleasure to welcome you here today at the opening of OHCHR’s expert meeting, Rights in Crisis. We organized this meeting to...

Moscow, 25 April 2013 Members of the press, ladies and gentlemen, I am very happy to be here with you today and share my preliminary observations at the end of the 11-day official visit I carried out...

GENEVA (25 April 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, will carry out an official visit to Ethiopia and Djibouti from 30 April...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 25 April 2013 Experts to Review Reports of Japan, Iran, Jamaica, Azerbaijan, Togo, Rwanda and Denmark The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will meet at the Palais...