BOGOTÁ(15 February 2010) – The UN Independent Expert on minority issues, Ms. Gay McDougall, called on the Colombian government to concentrate efforts in improving the situation of those communities...

15 February 2010 Elects New Bureau; Adopts Agenda and Programme of Work The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its seventy-sixth session, hearing an address by...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will hold its seventy-sixth session at the Palais Wilson in Geneva from 15 February to 12 March 2010 to review anti-discrimination efforts...

GENEVA (12 February 2010) - UN independent expert Philip Alston will undertake a mission to Albania from 15 to 23 February 2010, in what will be the first official visit to the country by the Special...

GENEVA (12 February 2010) -- The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees are jointly urging countries to suspend all involuntary returns...

During the course of my official visit to Colombia , between 1 and 12 February, I have had an opportunity to meet with both President Uribe and numerous senior government officials and to consult...

The Independent Expert of the Human Rights Council on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Mr. Justice Mohamed Chande Othman, issued the following statement following the conclusion of his...

GENEVA / KHARTOUM (11 February 2010) - The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman, expressed today his concerns about a number of fundamental human...