KABUL/GENEVA (14 February 2016) – The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan during 2015 are the highest recorded, the UN said today on the release of its 2015 Annual Report on Protection of...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Cécile Pouilly Location: Geneva Date : 12 February 2016 We are concerned at a number of recent developments in the occupied Palestinian...

GENEVA (12 February 2016) – United Nations human rights experts* today urged the Government of Nigeria to ensure that the areas they claim to have liberated from Boko Haram forces are truly safe for...

GENEVA (11 February 2016) – Iceland’s record on women’s rights will be examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on 17 February. Iceland has ratified the...

GENEVA (11 February 2016) – Sweden’s record on women’s rights will be examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on18 February. Sweden has ratified the...

Georgian GENEVA (11 February 2016) – United Nations human rights expert Dubravka Šimonović will visit Georgia from 15 to 19 February 2016 to assess the situation of violence against women and girls in...

Arabic | French GENEVA (11 February 2016) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday expressed “utmost alarm” at the rapidly worsening human rights situation in and...

Let me first congratulate the organizers for choosing this excellent topic of the conference, as well as the panellists for very interesting presentations. I am glad that representatives of victims...

GENEVA (10 February 2016) – Japan’s record on women’s rights will be examined by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on 16 February. Japan has ratified the...

GENEVA (10 February 2016) - I am grateful to the Government of Sri Lanka for a second invitation to undertake an advisory visit to the country (26 January to 1 February 2016) and for the excellent...