GENEVA (27 October 2021) – Civilians, including peacekeepers, journalists, aid workers and minorities in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been violently harassed and intimidated by so-called...

Every person's universal and absolute right not to be arbitrarily deprived of life requires that all potentially unlawful deaths be investigated, a UN human rights expert told the General Assembly...

UN human rights experts* today urgently appealed to Iran halt the execution of Arman Abdolali, convicted for an alleged murder committed when he was 17, and demanded that Iran stop sentencing children...

29 July 2003 The Commission on Human Rights’ Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Asma Jahangir, will visit Brazil from 16 September to 8 October 2003. The Special...

25.07.2003 Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan deeply regrets the execution of individuals in Uzbekistan, for whom stays of execution had been requested by the United Nations...

24 July 2003 The following press release has today been issued by the Human Rights Committee, currently holding its 78th Session in Geneva. The Committee has recently been informed that six...