31 August 2009 GENEVA – “It is vital to draw more attention to the issue of Enforced Disappearances as it still remains severely underreported, particularly in certain regions of the world,” said...

LUSAKA – “Effectively addressing extreme poverty in Zambia requires moving from rhetoric to action,” said the United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepúlveda...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 28 August 2009 ROUNDUP Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Azerbaijan, Chad, Chile, China and the Special Administrative Regions of Hong...

GENEVA - The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions called for the urgent establishment of an independent investigation into the authenticity of a video alleged to...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination PROVISIONAL ROUNDUP 28 August 2009 Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Azerbaijan, Chad, Chile, China and the Special Administrative...

GENEVA – South African lawyer Rashida Manjoo, advocate of the High Court of South Africa and academic in the field of human rights, assumed her mandate as the new UN Special Rapporteur on violence...

27 August 2009 CANBERRA/GENEVA - The Government of Australia is to be commended for taking significant steps to improve the human rights and socio-economic conditions of the Aboriginal and Torres...