Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 28 April 2014 MORNING The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this morning opened its fifty-second session at the Palais Wilson in...

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 28 April 2014 AFTERNOON The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon heard from representatives of national human rights...

TEGUCIGALPA (25 April 2014) – “The Government of Honduras must urgently adopt measures to effectively protect children, without discrimination, from all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation,”...

GENEVA (25 April 2014) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, will visit South Sudan from 28 to 29 April 2014, to discuss the worsening human rights situation, in the wake of the...

GENEVA (25 April 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklós Haraszti, has urged the Belarusian authorities to impose an immediate moratorium on...

GENEVA (25 April 2014) – Evacuation to protect the lives of religious minorities under threat in the Central African Republic must be a measure of last resort and implemented in full consultation with...

The terms of service of half of the current members of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights were set to expire on 31 December 2014. An election for those seats took place to 23-25...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 24 April 2014 The nineteenth session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 28 April to 9 May during which 14 States...

GENEVA (24 April 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, today urged the Government of Bahrain to stop the harassment and persecution of the...