Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 20 January 2015 (1) ISIL / Iraq ISIL has established unlawful, so-called “shari’a courts” in the...

Hebrew Geneva/Amman (20th January 2015): The United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict has visited Amman, Jordan. This was the second visit. During their stay the...

20 January 2015 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third and fourth periodic report of Jamaica on its implementation of the provisions of the...

20 January 2015 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third to fifth periodic report of Uruguay on its implementation of the provisions of the...

YANGON / GENEVA (19 January 2015) – “Valuable gains made in the area of freedom of expression and assembly risk being lost,” United Nations Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee said at the end of her ten...

GENEVA (19 January 2015) – United Nations human rights expert Rosa Kornfeld-Matte will carry out her first official visit to Austria from 22 to 30 January 2015 to assess the human rights situation of...

As Chairpersons of the ten UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies 1 , we recognize the fundamental importance of the current discussions on the post-2015 development agenda. We recall that the 2005 World...

GENEVA (16 January 2015) – An official information-gathering visit to the occupied Palestinian territory by a United Nations human rights expert was cancelled today until further notice for lack of...

Human Rights Council 16 January 2015 GENEVA (16 January 2014) – The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea will visit the United Kingdom from 24 to 31 January to hold meetings...