13 October 2011 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined third and fourth periodic report of Kuwait on how that country is implementing the...

GENEVA (13 October 2011) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, on Thursday welcomed the decision by President Thein Sein to grant another amnesty...

GENEVA (13 October 2011) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Olivier De Schutter, today welcomed the promulgation in Mexico of a key constitutional reform which recognizes...

13 October 2011 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined third and fourth periodic report of Kuwait on how that country is implementing the...

GENEVA / SANTIAGO / ASUNCION / MONTEVIDEO (13 October 2011) – The United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung-wha Kang, will undertake a tour of Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay from 17...

GENEVA (13 October 2011) – UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Thursday congratulated the Human Rights Council for completing a peer review of the human rights record of all 193 member states of the...

GENEVA (13 October 2011) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, on Thursday welcomed the decision by President Thein Sein to grant another amnesty...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 13 October 2011 Experts will review reports of Iran, Jamaica, Kuwait and Norway and will consider situation in Malawi in absence of a report Reports submitted by the Governments of...