NEW YORK / GENEVA (31 October 2013) – United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, told the UN General Assembly that “harmful practices inflicted on women or...

NEW YORK / GENEVA (31 October 2013) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Richard Falk put the spotlight on two international companies, the European banking group Dexia, and the United States-based...

NEW YORK (31 October 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklos Haraszti, said that the country has to guarantee a series of human rights in...

NEW YORK / GENEVA (31 October 2013) – The Chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development speaking to diplomats in New York has warned about the dramatic...

Committee against Torture 31 October 2013 The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Poland on its implementation of the...

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 31 October 2013 BACKGROUND RELEASE Experts to Review Reports of Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Djibouti, Egypt, Gabon...

Committee on Enforced Disappearances BACKGROUND RELEASE 31 October 2013 Committee to Consider Reports of Argentina and Spain The Committee on Enforced Disappearances, the Committee responsible for...

GENEVA (30 October 2013) -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, expressed her deep concern Wednesday about “the dangerous drift in the democratic process” in the Maldives largely as a...

GENEVA / DOHA (30 October 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, will visit Qatar from 3 to 10 November 2013 to assess the human rights...