GENEVA (17 January 2022) - Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human rights...

GENEVA (10 January 2022) - On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, UN experts* condemned the facility as a site of “unparalleled...

CRC 33rd session 30 May 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of Jamaica on how that country was implementing the provisions of the Convention on...

CRC 33rd session 27 May 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on how that country was implementing the provisions of...

23 May 2003 The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Dato’ Param Cumaraswamy, will be presented with the 2002 International...

CRC 33rd session 23 May 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of Sri Lanka on how that country implements the provisions of the Convention on the...

CRC 33rd session 21 May 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of Cyprus on how it was implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of...

16 May 2003 The Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions of the United Nations Commission on Human rights, Asma Jahangir, is deeply concerned at reports that potential mass...

16 May 2003 (reissued as received.) VIENNA, 16 May (UN Information Service) -- A thematic discussion focusing on "Trafficking in Human Beings, Especially Women and Children", was held at the Vienna...