Geneva (8 August 2016) – The UN Committee against Torture has voiced grave concern about reported reprisals against four Burundian lawyers who provided information to it for a special review of...

8 August 2016 Chairperson, Distinguished members of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, Mr. Eric Tistounet, Chief of the Human Rights Council Branch at the Office of the United Nations High...

8 August 2016 M. Le Vice-président du Conseil des droits de l’homme, M. Le Président du Comité consultatif, Distingués membres du Comité, Excellences, Mesdames, Messieurs, J’ai l’honneur et le plaisir...

The present report of the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, includes two parts.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals provide an opportunity to improve the health and human rights of those furthest behind. Human rights and the right-to-health framework can contribute to their effective implementation and achievement.

GENEVA (5 August 2016) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Friday deplored the execution of 20 people in Iran this week for purported terrorism-related offences. Reports...

GENEVA (5 August 2016) - The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-first to twenty-third periodic report of the United Kingdom...

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples - Tuesday 9 August 2016 GENEVA (5 August 2016) – Nearly ten years since the United Nations adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous...