GENEVA (7 December 2017) – Four UN experts* have called on Bahrain to ensure the human rights of the country's most senior Shia leader, 76 year old Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, are fully respected....

Statement by Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on the occasion of Human Rights Day “Human Rights Day falls on 10 December every year, the day when, back in 1948, the...

Values enshrined in Universal Declaration of Human Rights under assault, must be defended – Zeid “Human Rights Day falls on 10 December every year, the day when, back in 1948, the Universal...

GENEVA (7 December 2017) – A delegation of the United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries will conduct an official country visit to Ghana, from 8 to 15 December 2017. The Working Group...

UN expert on violence against women urges worldwide adoption of Femicide Watch or gender-related killings observatories GENEVA (7 December 2017) – A key global expert on violence against women and...

French GENEVA (7 December 2017) - UN experts from the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention are calling on the authorities in Burkina Faso to release immediately Mr Djibril Yipéné Bassolé, who was...

STATEMENT BY THE UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT Mr SAAD ALFARARGI Mr. Chairman, Excellencies, Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great pleasure and honour that I...

GENEVA (6 December 2017) – The UN's specialist on human rights in North Korea will visit South Korea and Japan from 11 to 16 December 2017, in the context of heightened tensions in North-East Asia. “I...

Committee against Torture ROUNDUP 6 December 2017 Adopts Concluding Recommendations on Reports of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Italy, Mauritius, Republic of Moldova, Rwanda and Timor...

GENEVA(6 December 2017) – The UN Committee against Torture has published its findings on the countries it examined during its latest session from 6 November to 6 December: Moldova, Cameroon, Bosnia...