GENEVA (29 March 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today called on all parties in Bangladesh “to cease violence immediately and return to peaceful demonstrations,”...

GENEVA (28 March 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Christof Heyns, today urged the Indonesian Government to restrict the use of the death penalty in compliance...

GENEVA / ISLAMABAD (28 March 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDP), Chaloka Beyani, today condemned the vicious attack on Pakistan’s...

GENEVA (28 March 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today urged the Egyptian Shura Council not to adopt a draft law on civil society organisations, which, in its...

28 March 2013 The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention conducted an official country visit to Brazil from 18 to 28 March 2013, following an invitation from the Government. The...

ROUNDUP 28 March 2013 Adopts Concluding Observations on Reports of Paraguay, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Angola, Macao Special Administrative Region of China and Peru The Human...

BRASILIA (28 March 2013) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention today raised concerns regarding the excessive use of deprivation of liberty and the lack of effective legal...

GENEVA (28 March 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, today expressed serious concerns over the spread of violence between...

26 March 2013 The Human Rights Committee this morning continued its first reading, paragraph by paragraph, of a draft General Comment on Article 9 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political...