29 May 2015 Earlier this spring, I drove to a beautiful spot on the southern bank of Lake Geneva. My destination was the Hotel Royale in Evian-les-Bains. It was there, in July 1938, that 32 nations...

GENEVA (21 May 2015) – A group of United Nations human rights experts welcomed the Malaysian, Indonesian and Thai leaders’ decision not to pushback migrants and asylum seekers arriving in their...

Search and rescue at sea, disembarkation, and protection of the human rights of refugees and migrants now imperative to save lives in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea 19 May 2015 We, the undersigned*...

18 May 2015 As the launch of the post-2015 development agenda approaches, a group of United Nations human rights experts* call on UN member States to ensure that the new global goals are firmly...

GENEVA (15 May 2015) – With some 6,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants believed to be still stranded at sea in precarious conditions in South East Asia, and three countries actively implementing a...

GENEVA (15 May 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, expressed both hope and disappointment at the new European Agenda on Migration unveiled...

27 June 2003 Panel Presentation Marking the Entry into Force of The International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families 1 July 2003 Panellists...