Yerevan, 18 May 2015 Good afternoon and thank you for coming. I would like to thank the Government of the Republic of Armenia for the invitation extended to me to undertake a visit to the country from...

GENEVA (18 May 2015) – A group of experts* from the largest body of independent experts in the United Nations Human Rights system today urged UN member States to recognize and support the role of a...

18 May 2015 The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its sixty-ninth session this morning, hearing an address by James Heenan, Chief of the Groups in Focus Section of the Human Rights Treaties...

GENEVA (18 May 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Méndez, called for the adoption of the revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, which are being...

GENEVA (18 May 2015) – Detailed below are the case law notes from the work of the treaty bodies in considering individual complaints: CRPD 12th session, 15 September – 3 October 2014 At its session...

GENEVA (15 May 2015) – With some 6,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants believed to be still stranded at sea in precarious conditions in South East Asia, and three countries actively implementing a...