Committee against Torture 28 April 2015 The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the combined sixth and seventh periodic report of Luxembourg on its implementation of the...

Trinidad 28 April 2015 - Rashida Manjoo, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences, as well as Commissioner Tracy Robinson, in her capacity as Rapporteur...

GENEVA (27 April 2015) – Denmark did not treat an Iraqi refugee equally before the law, as required by its international treaty obligations, when it refused, without giving any reason, to exempt him...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 27 April 2015 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opened its eighty-sixth session this morning, hearing an address by Yury...

GENEVA (24 April 2015) – After decades of sustained and unrestrained anti-foreigner abuse, misinformation and distortion, and in the wake of a recent article in the Sun newspaper calling migrants...

GENEVA/BAKU (24 April 2015) –The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has welcomed the unhindered access it had to places of detention in Azerbaijan during its resumed visit, while calling...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 24 April 2015 (1) Yemen update Civilian casualties have continued to mount in Yemen over the past few...

24 April 2015 The Committee against Torture met with non-governmental organizations and civil society representatives this morning to discuss their contribution to the realization of the goals laid...

UN independent human rights experts on migrants, Francois Crepeau, and on trafficking in persons, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, react to the announcement made at the end of the emergency European Union...

GENEVA (24 April 2015) – The Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, today said...