GENEVA (5 December 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklós Haraszti, has said that the recent executions carried out by Belarus, and confirmed...

GENEVA (5 December 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, Mutuma Ruteere, will carry out an official visit to Fiji from 7 to 12 December 2016 to gather first...

Spanish 5 December 2016 Mr. President, High Commissioner, Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen: First of all, I would like to extend my deepest appreciation on behalf of the...

GENEVA / WASHINGTON (2 December 2016) – United Nations human rights expert Maria Grazia Giammarinaro will visit the United States of America from 6 to 16 December to gather first-hand information on...

The right to development requires States’ action 2 December 2016 The following joint statement has been made by a group of United Nations human rights experts* to mark the 30th anniversary of the...

GENEVA (2 December 2016) – Governments must move from rhetoric to action and urgently honour their political and financial commitments to development, a group of United Nations human rights experts...

“Revealing the Child Faces of Modern Slavery” 2 December 2016 Distinguished Chair, Excellencies, Colleagues and friends, Every year, on this day, we commemorate and renew the world's pledge to end...

Ankara, 2 December 2016 I. Introduction At the invitation of the Government, I visited Turkey from 27 November to 2 December 2016 to assess the prevailing situation and challenges concerning torture...

Turkish ANKARA (2 December 2016) – United Nations human rights expert Nils Melzer has appealed today to the Turkish Government “to live up to Turkey’s policy of zero tolerance on torture.” At the end...

GENEVA (2 December 2016) - The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined nineteenth and twentieth report of Italy on its implementation of...