Human Rights Council MORNING 20 June 2016 Concludes Interactive Dialogue on Violence against Women and on Discrimination against Women in Law and in Practice The Human Rights Council this morning held...

GENEVA / MEXICO CITY (20 June 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, today said that not enough has changed in the protection...

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Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 20 June 2016 Hears Presentation of Thematic Reports by the Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a...

GENEVA (17 June 2016) – Governments seem to forget that they are economic actors in their own right, said a United Nations expert group today, while urging States “to lead by example on business and...

MORNING GENEVA (17 June 2016) - The Human Rights Council this morning concluded its clustered interactive dialogue with Dante Pesce, Chair of the Working Group on human rights and transnational...

Portuguese GENEVA (17 June 2016) – Brazil must move forward on business and human rights, and avoid the risk of sliding backwards, the Working Group on Business and Human Rights said today as it...

17 June 2016 Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Since March 2014, OHCHR through the UN human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine has been monitoring human rights throughout Ukraine, including the...

GENEVA (17 June 2016) – The United Nations Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and Practice today called on Governments to take urgent, immediate and effective actions to address the...

MIDDAY GENEVA (17 June 2016) - The Human Rights Council in its midday meeting held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on the right to education and the Special Rapporteur on...