GENEVA (18 February 2010) – The UN human rights expert on the human rights of migrants, Jorge A. Bustamante, today raised serious concerns about the nationality verification process in Thailand and...

18 February 2010 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined nineteenth and twentieth periodic report of Argentina on its implementation of the provisions of...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 18 February 2010 The third session of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 22 to 26 February 2010. On...

18 February 2010 Thank you all very much for coming. Today, I am paying my first visit to the Central African Republic. In fact, it is my honour to be the very first UN High Commissioner for Human...

18 February 2010 Mexico D. F. Mr. Vernor Muñoz Villalobos, in his capacity as Special Rapporteur on the right to education, carried out an official visit to Mexico from the 8 to 18 February 2010. He...

MEXICO CITY (18 February 2010) – “Mexico faces two big challenges in the educational field: to end the exclusion that its educational system generates and to raise the education quality to all levels...

17 February 2010 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined sixth to eighth periodic report of Slovakia on its implementation of the provisions of the...

16 February 2010 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined initial to sixth periodic reports of Monaco on its implementation of the provisions of the...