GENEVA (9 March 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, today started an official visit to Belgium (9-11 March) to collect first...

GENEVA (9 March 2015) –The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi,today welcomed the decision by the Cambodian Parliament to hold a public...

GENEVA (9 March 2015) – The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has published its findings on Gambia, Paraguay, and Tajikistan which it examined during its session from 23...

MIDDAY 9 March 2015 Foreign Minister of Finland Marks International Women’s Day in a Statement The Human Rights Council at its midday meeting held a clustered interactive dialogue with the Special...

Arabic | Hebrew Geneva (9th March 2015): The Commissioners handed over a letter today to the President of the Human Rights Council requesting a deferral until June 2015 of their report. The report was...

GENEVA (9 March 2015) – The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), is meeting in Geneva from 16 to 24 March. The...

The paper consideres how to develop statistics measuring equality and nondiscrimination. The paper shows that much can be learned from existing collaborative initiatives of official statistics and...