GENEVA (27 February 2017) – The United Nations expert on the human rights to water and sanitation raises serious concerns about a recent Bill in Lagos that criminalizes abstraction of water from...

German BERLIN/ GENEVA (27 February 2017) – People of African descent in Germany suffer racial discrimination, Afrophobia and racial profiling in their daily lives, but their situation remains largely...

34th session of the Human Rights Council Remarks by Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights 27 February 2017 Excellencies, Last December's GA resolution to establish...

AFTERNOON GENEVA (27 February 2017) - The Human Rights Council this afternoon held its annual high-level panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming, with a focus on the contribution of human...

Canberra, 27 February 2017: The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, issued the following statement today following her visit to Australia from 13 to 27...

GENEVA (24 February 2017) - The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined initial to third periodic reports of Micronesia on its implementation of the...

Dhaka, 24 February 2017 I would like to first thank the Government of Bangladesh for allowing me to undertake a visit to the country, particularly to Cox’s Bazar. I had initially hoped to undertake...