Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 20 April 2012 PROVISIONAL ROUNDUP Adopts Concluding Observations on the Initial Report of Peru The Committee on the Rights of Persons with...

BACKGROUND PRESS RELEASE 20 April 2012 The tenth session of the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Communications will take place from 23 to 27, April 2012, in Geneva at Palais Wilson. The five...

GENEVA / NEW YORK (20 April 2012) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Calin Georgescu will visit the United States of America from 25 to 27 April as a follow-up visit to his recent country mission* to...

ROUNDUP 20 April 2012 The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities released its concluding observations and recommendations on the report of Peru ( CRPD/C/PER/1 ) today after concluding...

Committee on Rights of Migrant Workers 18 April 2012 The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today completed its consideration of the initial...

GENEVA (18 April 2012) – As negotiations on the Rio+20 Conference outcome enter a critical phase, UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay has urged all United Nations Member States to ensure that human...

GENEVA (17 April 2012) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday urged the governments of Sudan and South Sudan to stem the violence on both sides before it seriously undermines...

ABU DHABI, 17 April 2012: “The United Arab Emirates must be commended for its strong commitment to combat trafficking in persons both at the domestic level and in the Gulf region; however it needs to...