Geneva 22 March 2016 Excellencies, Colleagues and friends, Representing the HC for Human Rights, I am delighted to be with you to discuss technical cooperation and capacity-building in the context of...

GENEVA (21 March 2016) - The Human Rights Committee this morning discussed a progress report by the Special Rapporteur on Follow-up to Concluding Observations and a progress report by the Special...

Spanish GENEVA (21 March 2016) – Defining a crime as enforced disappearance does not depend on how long a person is detained without their whereabouts being divulged, UN experts have stressed after...

French GENEVA (21 March 2016) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday welcomed the judgement delivered by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the case of Jean...

MORNING/MIDDAY Holds interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories and general debate after presentation of reports GENEVE (21 March 2016) - The Human Rights...

GENEVA (21 March 2016) – At least 250 million people worldwide still face appalling and dehumanising discrimination based on caste and similar systems of inherited status warned the United Nations...

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 21 March 2016 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a general debate on the follow-up to and implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. In...

Human Rights Council EVENING 21 March 2016 The Human Rights Council this evening held a general debate on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance after hearing the...

21 March 2016 Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the High Commissioner, I am pleased to introduce four reports, and an...

GENEVA (21 March 2016) – The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is meeting in Geneva from 29 March to 21 April to review the following countries: Portugal (29-30 Mar); Thailand...