GENEVA (14 May 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, today called on the international community to keep Eritrea under close...

Committee against Torture 14 May 2013 The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Guatemala on how it implements the...

GENEVA (13 May 2013) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Richard Falk today called for an immediate halt to construction of a settlement highway in Beit Safafa (East Jerusalem), also known as the...

GENEVA (13 May 2013) -- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has welcomed the first-instance conviction on Friday of Guatemala’s former de facto head of state, José Efraín Ríos...

Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to address the fourteenth session of the Working Group on the Right to Development. As we commemorate the twentieth...

GENEVA (13 May 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today called on the Iranian authorities for the immediate release of seven Baha’i community leaders, known as the...

Committee against Torture 13 May 2013 Discusses the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture with Romania The Committee against Torture this afternoon met with non-governmental...

10 May 2013 The Committee against Torture this morning met with States parties to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment to discuss its working...

Human Rights Indicators and the Post-2015 Development Agenda New York 10 May 2013 New York, United States Excellencies, Distinguished panelists, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am happy to welcome you all to...