GENEVA (7 April 2015 ) –The UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families (CMW) is meeting from 13 to 24 April to review: Kyrgyzstan (13-14 April), Peru (14-15...

1 April 2015 Mr. President, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am delivering this statement on behalf of the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. In...

The first report of the third Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Puras, provides a brief account of his activities since he took office in August 2014.

Human Rights Council Resolution 24/3 of 8 October 2013 mandated the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, including its causes and consequences to, inter alia, examine and report on all...

Please find below a comment by the Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Rupert Colville, on death sentences in Gambia: “We are deeply concerned about the death sentences...

Beirut, 2 April 2015 Introduction From 23 March to 2 April, I have undertaken a visit to Lebanon in my capacity as United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. First of all, I...

GENEVA (2 April 2015) - The UN Human Rights Committee has given Indonesia the lowest possible evaluation for its failure to respond to the Committee’s call in 2013 to stop executing prisoners for drug...

French GENEVA (2 April 2015) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Thursday expressed alarm at the Thai military Government’s announcement that it has invoked an article of...

Arabic BEIRUT (2 April 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, today praised Lebanon’s unique tradition of religious diversity, in particular...

GENEVA (2 April 2015) – The UN Human Rights Committee has published its findings on the countries it examined during its latest session from 16 March to 2 April: Russia, Cambodia, Côte d'Ivoire...