GENEVA (28 February 2018) – The US detention of a Pakistani man, Ammar al Baluchi, at Guantanamo Bay is arbitrary and breaches international human rights law, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary...

MIDDAY GENEVA (28 February 2018) - The Human Rights Council during its midday meeting began a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Leilani Farha, and with...

AFTERNOON GENEVA (28 February 2018) - The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a high-level panel discussion on the seventieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the...

GENEVA (28 February 2018) - The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded the review of the initial report of Russia on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of...

GENEVA (28 February 2018) - The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined fourth to sixth periodic reports of Suriname on its implementation of the...

GENEVA (26 February 2018) – New guidelines developed by the United Nations Committee against Torture (CAT) aim to help governments avoid violating international human rights law, and to help asylum...

37th session of the Human Rights Council Statement by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein 28 February 2018 Distinguished President of the Council, Ministers, Excellencies, This...

French | Spanish GENEVA (28 February 2018) - The negative impact of austerity measures on human rights should no longer be ignored, and effective action to avoid the impact is long overdue, the UN’s...