AFTERNOON 23 March 2014 Chairperson of Ad Hoc Committee on the Elaboration of Complementary Standards Presents Report The Human Rights Council this afternoon started its general debate on racism...

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination - Saturday 21 March 2015 GENEVA (20 March 2015) – Speaking ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...

GENEVA / BEIRUT (18 March 2015) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Heiner Bielefeldt will carry out his first information-gathering visit to Lebanon, from 23 March to 2 April 2015, to assess the...

GENEVA (10 March 2012) – Violence committed in the name of religion does not simply ‘erupt’, but is typically caused by contemporary factors and actors that provide the fertile ground for the seeds of...

MORNING 10 March 2015 Concludes Clustered Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteurs on Torture and on Human Rights Defenders The Human Rights Council today started its interactive dialogue...

Vienna, 17 June 2003 ANTI-SEMITISM: A CONTINUING HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERN Address by Mr. Bertrand Ramcharan, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner of Human Rights, Ladies and Gentlemen: When the United...

16 June 2003 The Secretary-General appointed today five independent eminent experts to follow up, together with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the implementation of the Declaration and...