5 February 2015 I am honoured to be addressing you this morning, here at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., only days after we together commemorated the liberation of Auschwitz seventy...

WASHINGTON D.C. (5 February 2015) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday called for better leadership and a fundamental global rethink of education as a means of...

Version in Hebrew Geneva (5th February 2015): The Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict is extending its deadline by a fortnight to 15 February 2015 for additional submissions...

5 February 2015 The Committee on Enforced Disappearances this afternoon held three separate meetings with States parties to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced...

GENEVA (4 FEBRUARY 2015) – A group of United Nations independent experts* today urged the Bahraini authorities to release Sheikh Ali Salman, an opposition politician and a religious figure who was...

4 February 2015 The Committee on Enforced Disappearances today concluded its consideration of the initial report of Armenia on how it implements the provisions of the International Convention on the...

GENEVA (4 February 2015) – The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its concluding observations on the States it examined during its 68th session from 12-30 January: Cambodia...

GENEVA (4 February 2015) – Human rights training of media professionals and journalists is the main focus of the third phase of the World Programme for Human Rights Education, a global collective...

Geneva, 3 February 2015 -- The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Joachim Ruecker (Germany), received a letter from Professor William Schabas last night in which Professor Schabas...

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