GENEVA (24 August 2012) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention* will begin its 64th session on Monday 27 August to deliberate on 31 cases concerning 21 different countries. It will...

NEW YORK / PORT-AU-PRINCE / GENEVA (23 August 2012) – The announced official visit to Haiti by a senior United Nations human rights official has been postponed due to a hurricane warning in the...

23 August 2012 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined eighteenth to twentieth periodic report of Austria on how that country is...

(GENEVA 23 August 2012) – “It is time for the Bahraini authorities to comply with the rights to peaceful assembly and expression and immediately release those arbitrarily detained for exercising their...

GENEVA (22 August 2012) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, urged today the United States Government and the local and state authorities in South...

22 August 2012 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined fifteenth and sixteenth periodic report of the Republic of Korea on how that...

GENEVA (21 August 2012) – The United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice called on the new Tunisian Government to take all necessary steps to safeguard the...

NEW YORK / PORT-AU-PRINCE (21 August 2012) – United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Šimonović, will visit Haiti starting Wednesday to discuss deep-rooted human rights...