GENEVA (7 December 2016) – The UN Committee against Torture has published its findings on the countries it examined during its latest session from 7 November to 7 December: Ecuador, Finland, Monaco...

Committee on the Rights of the Child Background Adolescence is a life stage characterized by growing opportunities, capacities, aspirations, energy and creativity, but also significant vulnerability...

GENEVA (5 December 2016) - The Human Rights Council this afternoon elected its new bureau for 2017 at an organizational meeting, appointing Ambassador Joaquín Alexander Maza Martelli, Permanent...

GENEVA (6 December 2016) – United Nations human rights experts* today called on Kazakhstan to immediately release human rights defenders Max Bokayev and Talgat Ayan, who are currently in jail for...

Croatia version Zagreb, 6 December 2016 Members of the press, Ladies and gentlemen, Good afternoon and thank you all for coming. Today, I finish an intensive nine-day visit to Croatia and I am here to...

GENEVA (6 December 2016) – A group of United Nations human rights experts has urged the Chinese Government to immediately investigate the whereabouts and fate of a prominent human rights lawyer, Jiang...

Croatia version ZAGREB / GENEVA (6 December 2016) – Croatia has a good opportunity to become an inclusive society, but it must avoid a selective approach that discriminate against certain groups while...

Excellencies, Colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, At the outset, I wish to congratulate the newly elected President, His Excellency Joaquin Alexander Maza Martelli, and the other members of the Bureau...

GENEVA (5 December 2016) – UN human rights experts are outraged by Belarus’ continued use of the death penalty following reports that two men whose cases were before the UN Human Rights Committee were...