GENEVA (29 April 2015) – “Indonesia appeals for clemency when its own nationals face execution in other countries, so it is incomprehensible why it absolutely refuses to grant clemency for lesser...

GENEVA (29 April 2015) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention today has concluded its 72nd regular session. The session, which took place in Geneva from 20 to 29 April 2015, saw the...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 29 April 2015 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth and twenty...

Committee against Torture 29 April 2015 The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the sixth periodic report of Spain on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention...

29 April 2015 The twenty-second session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 4 to 15 May during which the next group of 14 States are...

This film presents the work of the UN treaty body system which monitors the implementation by States of the core international human rights treaties. Since the film's release, an additional human...

UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for International Migration and...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 28 April 2015 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from representatives of non-governmental organizations...

GENEVA (28 April 2015) – The UN Committee on the Rights of Migrant Workers has published it finding on the countries it examined during its latest session from 13 to 24 April: Kyrgyzstan, Peru and...