NEW YORK / GENEVA (25 October 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, made an urgent appeal to the international community to...

NEW YORK / GENEVA (25 October 2013) – In his final report to the UN General Assembly, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, today welcomed “the rights resurgence...

25 October 2013 The Human Rights Committee held a meeting this morning in which it adopted a follow-up progress report on individual communications adopted by the Committee at its one hundred and...

Conclude London Visit; travel to New York then Washington DC next week London, 25 October 2013 -- Former prisoners, military officers and a human trafficking victim shared shocking testimony with a...

NEW YORK (25 October 2013) – Two United Nations human rights experts today expressed concern about the potential illegal use of armed drones. In two separate reports to the UN General Assembly, the...

New York, 25 October 2013 Mr Chair, Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and gentlemen, At the Human Rights Council in June 2012, a group of 16 States, including two Permanent Members of the...

25 October 2013 New York Mr. Chairperson, Distinguished Representatives, Delegates and Observers, I would like to thank the Third Committee for this opportunity to present my report, which focuses...

NEW YORK / GENEVA (24 October 2013) – Unpaid care work such as cooking, cleaning and caring for children and the elderly entrenches women’s poverty and social exclusion when it is not socially...

GENEVA/ABIDJAN (24 October 2013) – “Victims of the post electoral crisis should not be forgotten,” United Nations Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Côte d’Ivoire, Doudou Diène...

24 October 2013 The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Uruguay on its implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on...