GENEVA (24 February 2012) – Two United Nations independent experts urged on Friday the Senegalese authorities to respect without any delay the freedoms of peaceful assembly and of expression, and to...

GENEVE (24 février 2012) – Deux experts indépendants des Nations Unies exhortent les autorités sénégalaises à assurer sans délai le respect des libertés de réunion pacifique et d’expression et prendre...

ROUNDUP 24 February 2012 Adopts Seven Recommendations to the Human Rights Council The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its eighth session during which it adopted seven...

23 February 2012 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the fifth periodic report of Jordan on how that country is implementing the provisions of the...

23 February 2012 Madame President, Excellencies, Distinguished Participants, Ladies and Gentlemen, Climate change, also referred to as “global warming”, is one of the issues of our times – it is...

23 February 2012 The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this morning discussed its agenda and annual programme of work, including new priorities. Latif Huseynov, Chairperson of the Human Rights...

23 February 2012 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today considered the combined nineteenth to twentieth periodic reports of Canada on how that country is implementing the...

Session 2: International Cooperation and Respect for Human Rights in all Climate Change-related Situations 23 February 2012 Thank you to the organizers of this seminar—the government of Bangladesh...