GENEVA (30 March 2016) – The UN Human Rights Committee has published its findings on the countries it examined during its latest session: South Africa, Namibia, Sweden, New Zealand, Slovenia, Costa...

Quartet High Level Side Event "Pathways for admission of Syrian refugees" Panel title: Looking Ahead to the General Assembly and US Presidential Summits on Adressing Large Movements of People (19-20...

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 March 2016 The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded the examination of the initial report of Portugal on its...

GENEVA (30 March 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns today expressed his outrage at the killing of a Palestinian man by an...

GENEVA (29 March 2016) – The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) will review Slovakia on 4 and 5 April in sessions that will be webcast live. Slovakia is one of the 162...

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 29 March 2016 The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities this morning opened its fifteenth session, hearing an address by a...

MORNING GENEVA (24 March 2016) - The Human Rights Council this morning adopted 12 texts, including a resolution on the effects of terrorism on the enjoyment of human rights, and extended the mandate...

GENEVA (24 March 2016) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday expressed serious concerns about the recent agreement between the European Union and Turkey...

GENEVA (24 March 2016) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein welcomed the verdict against Radovan Karadzic, President of the self-styled Bosnian Serb Republic, which was...

AFTERNOON GENEVA (24 March 2016) - The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted six resolutions, including on protecting human rights defenders addressing economic, social and cultural rights; on...