GENEVA (25 August 2014) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention today started considering close to 30 confidential cases of alleged arbitrary deprivation of liberty concerning 17...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 25 August 2014 CERD Calls on Human Rights Council to Convene a Special Session on the Human Rights Situation in Iraq GENEVA (25 August 2014) - The...

Geneva, 25 August 2014 -- The President of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella (Gabon), today announced the appointment of Mary McGowan Davis as an additional...

GENEVA (22 August 2014) – An updated analysis carried out by data specialists on behalf of the UN Human Rights Office has led to the compilation of a list of 191,369 cases of individuals reported...

22 August 2014 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today completed its consideration of the combined tenth and eleventh periodic report of Estonia on its implementation of the...

In this report, the Working Group on the use of mercenaries examines the use by the United Nations of private security companies, in light of the vast and complex challenges which outsourcing security to private military and security companies (PMSCs) poses to the United Nations and to local populations. While the United Nations contracts companies solely for security services, these same companies are also known to provide military services in other circumstances.

21 August 2014 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today completed its consideration of the combined seventh to ninth periodic report of Japan on its implementation of the...