This report is the second of three that the Rapporteur dedicates to this issue. She has previously introduced the topic and touched on some of the impacts of international investment agreements on indigenous peoples’ rights and the more systemic issues associated with the international investment law regime. In this report, she seeks to further contextualise and examine those impacts by focusing on cases involving such agreements and rights.

GENEVA (11 August 2016) – Pakistan’s record on tackling racial discrimination will face scrutiny by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on 16 and 17 August. Pakistan is...

GENEVA (11 August 2016) – The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) will review Ethiopia on 16 and 17 August in sessions that will be webcast live. Ethiopia is one of the 166...

BACKGROUND RELEASE Committee to Review Reports of Uruguay, Ethiopia, Bolivia, United Arab Emirates, Guatemala, Colombia and Italy GENEVA (11 August 2016) - The Committee on the Rights of Persons with...

GENEVA (11 August 2016) – Criminalising migrants for entering and leaving Bulgaria irregularly “places many of them in an invidious Catch-22 situation” and raises serious concerns about the State’s...

GENEVA (11 August 2016) - The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined eighteenth to twenty-second periodic report of Lebanon on its...

This report consists of a critical analysis of the content of the right to health vis-à-vis indigenous peoples and a review of the legal obligations of States and others in terms of fulfilling that right.

Chinese GENEVA (10 August 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, will undertake his first official visit to China from 15 to 23 August 2016...