BACKGROUND RELEASE Committee to Consider Situation in Serbia, Algeria, Jordan, Australia, Slovakia and Belarus GENEVA (16 November 2017) - The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...

16 November 2017 from 11.00 – 12.30 (Bonn) Excellencies , There can be no doubt that climate change is both a source and a multiplier of threats to sustainable development, its direct loss and damage...

Luxembourg Pavilion, Bonn Zone, 15 November 2017 from 11.00 – 12.30 Question 1: What are a state’s obligation, under international law, to protect the human rights of their citizens, those women, men...

​15 November 2017 from 15.00 – 16.30 in Bonn Excellencies, friends, Berta Isabel Caceres assassinated in the context of her work to expose the impacts of environmental destruction on and for...

15 November 2017 16:45 – 18:15 (Bonn) The unprecedented now When we consider that the population under 25 globally is at its highest level ever in human history, if we factor in where it is that those...

French GENEVA/KINSHASA (15 November 2017) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday called on the authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo to halt the...

French | Russian | Spanish United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, 27-29 November, Palais des Nations, Geneva GENEVA (15 November 2017) – Representatives of the world’s top companies will...

GENEVA (15 November 2017) - The Committee against Torture this afternoon completed its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Italy on its implementation of the provisions of...

Arabic GENEVA (14 November) – The UN Human Rights chief today expressed dismay at the sharp increase in the number of migrants held in horrific conditions at detention facilities in Libya, saying the...