Chairperson Regrets General Assembly’s Decision Not to Grant Resources to Treaty Bodies, while States Call for More Coordination among Committees GENEVA (27 March 2018) - The Committee on Economic...

French GENEVA/NIAMEY (27 March 2018) – A UN human rights expert has urged the Government of Niger to prioritise the adoption of a strategy to ensure the rights of internally displaced persons are...

GENEVA (26 March 2018) - The Human Rights Committee today discussed an update by the Rapporteur on Follow-Up to Concluding Observations and by the Rapporteur on Follow-up to Views ad interim . Mauro...

Portuguese GENEVA (26 March 2018) – UN human rights experts* said the killing of prominent Afro-Brazilian human rights defender Marielle Franco who decried the military’s use of force in Rio de...

Chinese GENEVA (23 March 2018) –UN human rights experts* are deeply concerned over the deteriorating health of Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer jailed in China for inciting “subversion”...

Human Rights Council MORNING 23 March 2018 Asks Special Rapporteur on Unilateral Coercive Measures to Present a Set of Elements to be Considered in the Preparation of a Draft Declaration on the...

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 23 March 2018 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights concluded today the consideration of the fourth periodic report of New Zealand on...

MIDDAY GENEVA (23 March 2018) - The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting adopted five resolutions in which it extended the mandates on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Syria, Iran...

GENEVA (23 March 2018) - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will host a dialogue with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and United Nations human rights experts, to discuss...

AFTERNOON Extends Mandate of the Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Mali, Adopts Five Texts under its Agenda Item on the Situation of Human Rights in Palestine and other Occupied...