4 June 2012 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the initial report of Nepal on its implementation of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale...

This Interpretive Guide provides additional background explanation to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights relating to the corporate responsibility to respect human rights. It does not...

On 26 June 2012, the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti’s (MINUSTAH) Human Rights Section (HRS) published a report focused on the response of the judiciary to cases of rape that were lodged...

GENEVA (31 May 2012) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday expressed alarm at the significant increase in large-scale atrocities by armed groups in the east of the Democratic...

Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, At the outset, I would like to express my sincere condolences and deep sympathy to the families of the victims...

Statement delivered on video by the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Mr. Christof Heyns Madame President, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen, The...

Human Rights Council MORNING 1 June 2012 The Human Rights Council this morning opened a Special Session to examine the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria and the recent killings in El...