Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 20 February 2018 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined third to fifth periodic reports...

GENEVA (16 February 2018) – Life sentences imposed on six journalists today by a court in Turkey are an unparalleled attack on freedom of expression and on the media, two international experts on...

GENEVA (16 February 2018) – Two UN human rights experts* have called on the US Government to halt the execution of a seriously ill man amid concerns that the use of a lethal injection could amount to...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 19 February 2018 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this morning opened its sixty-ninth session, hearing a...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 19 February 2018 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with civil society representatives from...

GENEVA (16 February 2018) - The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded the consideration via video conference of the initial report of Haiti on its implementation of the...

Turkish GENEVA (16 February 2018) – A group of United Nations experts* has issued a fresh call to the Turkish authorities to release the chair of Amnesty International Turkey, Taner Kiliç, who has...