GENEVA (19 June 2015) – Two United Nations human rights experts today called on the Supreme Court of the Maldives to reconsider its verdict against the Maldivian Human Rights Commission, after the...

Climate Change and Human Rights This year, World Environment Day occurs during a meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), which is meeting in Bonn, Germany...

GENEVA (5 June 2015) – The detention of journalists and human rights defenders weakens the protection of human rights of all in Iran, United Nations Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed has said today...

GENEVA (2 June 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst, today criticised the “relentless prosecution and repression of prominent rights...

CESCR 30th session 5 May 2003 Afternoon The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon heard statements from a number of non-governmental organizations which focused on the...