GENEVA (31 August 2015) – The first visit to Japan by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, has been...

GENEVA (31 August 2015) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention* is meeting in Geneva from 31 August to 4 September 2015, to discuss over 30 cases of alleged deprivation of liberty...

31 August 2015 The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families this morning opened its twenty-third session, hearing an address by James Heenan...

31 August 2015 The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families this afternoon considered Cabo Verde’s implementation of the provisions of the...

GENEVA (28 August 2015) – A group of United Nations human rights experts* expressed alarm after a female Sudanese student, Ferdous Al Toum, was sentenced to public flogging and a heavy fine for...

GENEVA (28 August 2015) – Two United Nations expert groups on enforced disappearances call on States to establish and activate protocols for the immediate search of disappeared persons across the...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Ravina Shamdasani Location : Geneva Date : 28 August 2015 Subjects : Venezuela / Colombia We are concerned about the situation at the...

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 28 August 2015 The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its consideration of the initial report of the European...