MIDDAY/AFTERNOON Hears Presentation of Country Reports on Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Cyprus and Iran under Annual Reports and on Afghanistan, Libya and Guinea under Technical Assistance and...

EVENING/NIGHT Adopts 22 Texts, Renews Mandates on Countering Terrorism, Freedom of Religion, Syria, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Iran GENEVA (23 March 2016) - The Human Rights Council...

Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Resolution 29/23 of 3 July 2015 of this Council invited the High Commissioner for Human Rights to present orally to the members and the observers the...

Copenhagen, 22 Mars 2016 I. Introductory remarks From 13 to 22 March I have undertaken a visit to the Kingdom of Denmark in my capacity as UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. First...

< Portuguese GENEVA (21 March 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, commended the Government of Brazil for a number of measures and...

GENEVA (22 March 2016) – People with albinism are being hunted for witchcraft rituals, their body parts hacked off with machetes, and even having their graves desecrated, United Nations expert...

Human Rights Council NIGHT 21 March 2016 The Human Rights Council this evening held an interactive dialogue with Marie-Therese Keita Bocoum, Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the...

GENEVA (22 March 2016) – It is completely unacceptable for Liberia to outsource its primary education system to a private company, said the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education...

GENEVA (22 March 2016) – The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) will review Thailand on 30 and 31 March in sessions that will be webcast live. Thailand is one of the 162...

COPENHAGEN / GENEVA (22 March 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, today called on the Government of Denmark to further its efforts to...