GENEVA (30 October 2015) – Brazil continues to face overwhelming challenges in preventing and combatting torture and ill-treatment of people in detention, UN experts have said at the end of a 12-day...

NEW YORK (30 October 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, has called on all UN Member States to focus on strengthening the right to education when...

30 octobre 2015 The Human Rights Committee this afternoon continued its discussion on the draft General Comment on Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights on the right to...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 30 October 2015 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined fifth and sixth periodic report...

NEW YORK (29 October 2015) -- A wide range of systematic human rights violations continue to take place in Eritrea where a climate of fear and lack of hope for a life in dignity and freedom, sparking...

New York, 29 October 2015 Chair, Delegates, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea finds that it cannot start this update without strongly...

Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review Working Group 29 October 2015 BACKGROUND RELEASE The twenty-third session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group...

NEW YORK/GENEVA (29 October 2015) – UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, called on all those in positions of authority in Myanmar to ensure that respect for the human rights...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 29 October 2015 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined seventh and eighth periodic...