31 July 2009 GENEVA / KABUL --“As the conflict intensifies and spreads, it is taking an increasingly heavy toll on civilians,” says the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in a...

Human Rights Committee ROUNDUP 31 July 2009 Adopts Recommendations on the Reports of Tanzania, the Netherlands, Chad and Azerbaijan and on the Situation of Civil and Political Rights in Grenada The...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination BACKGROUND RELEASE 30 July 2009 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination will hold its seventy-fifth session at the Palais Wilson...

Human Rights Committee AFTERNOON 30 July 2009 The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted its annual report to the General Assembly following a discussion among Committee Experts. The annual...

Human Rights Council Advisory Committee BACKGROUND RELEASE 30 July 2009 The third session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will be held from 3 to 7 August 2009 in Room XX of the Palais...

Human Rights Committee MORNING 29 July 2009 This morning the Committee heard presentations of progress reports by Committee members on the status of follow-up to the Committee’s concluding...

Human Rights Committee 27 July 2009 This afternoon, the Human Rights Committee held a dialogue with a representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the...