Summary The present study is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 12/27, in which the Council requested the Secretary-General to prepare an analytical study on the steps taken to...

ATHENS (20 October 2009) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, warned Wednesday that “Greek prisons are overcrowded and law enforcement officials are overwhelmed” under...

20 October 2010 The Human Rights Committee this afternoon continued its first reading, begun in October 2009, of a draft General Comment on States parties' obligations under Article 19 of the...

Third Committee Item 68 (b) New York, 20 October 2010 Distinguished delegates, I. The report that I present to you today is my first to the General Assembly in my capacity as UN Independent Expert on...

(NEW YORK, 20 October 2010) “Attention to minority issues and minority rights violations at an early stage – before they lead to tensions and violence – would make an invaluable contribution to the...

NEW YORK (20 October 2010) – UN human rights expert Richard Falk has warned that Israeli policies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have transformed its occupation of the Palestinian territories...

65th session of the General Assembly - Third Committee, Item 68 (c) 20 October 2010 New York As this is my last report to the General Assembly in my term as Special Rapporteur on the ‘Situation of...