GENEVA (11 May 2015) – A group of United Nations human rights experts* today said that the Government of Paraguay has failed in its responsibility to act with due diligence in the case a 10-year old...

Excellencies, Colleagues, Friends, I’m glad to have this opportunity to thank the Group of Friends to the Optional Protocol to International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for its...

Erbil, Iraq 10-11 May 2015 It is with great pleasure that I greet you from Geneva on the occasion of the Forum on Security Council Resolution 1325 and women’s resistance against extremism and...

GENEVA (8 May 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, and on extrajudicial executions, Christof Heyns, today condemned the sharp...

PORT LOUIS (8 May 2015) – The United Nations Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, Rosa Kornfeld-Matte, today commended the Mauritian Government’s efforts to ensure...

GENEVA (7 May 2015) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Maud de Boer-Buquicchio will conduct an official visit to Armenia from 12 to 18 May 2015 to assess the situation of sale of children, child...

The Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has been informed of allegations of a conflict of interest made against one of its members, Mr. José Antonio Guevara, in connection to the judicial...

7 May 2015 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth and twenty-first periodic report of Denmark on its implementation of...

GENEVA (7 May 2015) – The UN’s Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) is due to visit Guatemala for the first time since the country ratified a key treaty in 2008 on the prevention of torture and...