GENEVA / PHNOM PENH (24 April 2014) – The UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Flavia Pansieri, will visit Cambodia from 28 April to 2 May 2014. Pansieri is the most senior UN human rights...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 24 April 2014 Experts to Review Reports of Armenia, China (including Hong Kong and Macao), Czech Republic, El Salvador, Indonesia, Lithuania, Monaco, Serbia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 24 April 2014 Experts to consider reports of Uruguay, Thailand, Sierra Leone, Holy See, Montenegro, Cyprus and Lithuania, Situation in Guinea in absence of a report The Committee...

GENEVA (23 April 2014) – The United Nations Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Cote d’Ivoire, Doudou Diène, today called on the authorities to undertake broad consultations in the...

BANGUI / GENEVE (23 avril 2014) – L’Experte indépendante des Nations unies sur la situation des droits de l’homme en République centrafricaine, Marie-Thérèse Keita-Bocoum, a exhorté les autorités de...

- Recognizing legal capacity should not be dependent on ‘discriminatory mental capacity assessments’, says UN Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities - Accessibility is key for the enjoyment...

GENEVA (22 April 2014) – The protection of South Sudan’s one million internally displaced persons (IDPs) is further eroding amid persistent violence and deliberate ethnically targeted attacks, United...