Human Rights Council MORNING 3 June 2011 Concludes Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteurs on Right to Health and on Trafficking in Persons The Human Rights Council this morning held an...

Committee against Torture PROVISIONAL ROUNDUP 3 June 2011 Committee reviewed the reports of Slovenia, Kuwait, Ghana, Turkmenistan, Finland, Mauritius, Monaco and Ireland The Committee against Torture...

Committee on the Rights of the Child 3 June 2011 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the combined second and third periodic report of Cambodia on how that country is implementing...

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 3 June 2011 Concludes Interactive Dialogue on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and on Violence against Women The Human Rights Council this afternoon heard a...

GENEVA (3 June 2011) – Over 40 food experts, parliamentarians and policy-makers from Latin America and the Caribbean will meet on 9–10 June in Bogotá, Colombia, to discuss how to strengthen the...

This Guide provides instruction on how businesses can develop and implement a human rights policy within their companies. It explains why companies have a responsibility to respect human rights; why...

In the morning of June 15, 2011, Serge Démosthène was arrested along with Feckel Plaisimond by police from the Petitionville Commissariat. 12 hours later he was taken unconscious to the general...

GENEVA (1 June 2011) –“Unjustified reductions in expenditures devoted to implementing public services that are critical to the realization of economic, social and cultural rights will be in violation...