20 October 2015 The Human Rights Committee yesterday and today considered the second periodic report of Greece on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and...

Colleagues, Friends, I am honoured to be invited to speak in this house, a place so intimate with the lives of a couple who, singly and together, shifted the world into a trajectory which is as...

New York, 20 October 2015 Chairperson, Distinguished delegates, Colleagues and friends, On 10 December 1984, the United Nations General Assembly expressed its desire “to make more effective the...

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 20 October 2015 Your excellences, Members of the Parliament, NGO representatives, GREVIO experts, Ladies and Gentlemen, Let me begin by thanking the Government of...

19 October 2015 The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one hundred and fifteenth session, hearing an address by Ibrahim Salama, Director of the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office...

Spanish | Portuguese BISSAU / GENEVA (19 October 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Mónica Pinto, exhorted the government of Guinea-Bissau to...

New York, 19 October 2015 Colleagues, Friends, I am honoured to be invited to speak in this house, a place so intimate with the lives of a couple who, singly and together, shifted the world into a...