GENEVA (26 January 2017) – The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) is due to make its first visit to Niger from 30 January to 3 February to assess the efforts made by the State...

GENEVA / COLOMBO (26 January 2017) -- Commenting on recent reports appearing in Sri Lankan media on his meeting with the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in Davos on 18 January, UN High Commissioner for...

2017 theme: Holocaust Remembrance – Educating for a Better Future "This painful day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust forces us to contemplate the horrors to which bigotry, racism and...

GENEVA (25 January 2017) – Two United Nations human rights experts today called on the Royal Government of Cambodia for the immediate release of five human rights defenders detained in May 2016 on...

Spanish GENEVA / MEXICO CITY (25 January 2017) – “Impunity has become both the cause and the effect of the overall insecurity of human rights defenders in Mexico,” has warned United Nations Special...

GENEVA (25 January 2017) – Two United Nations human rights experts have appealed today to the Government of Bahrain to spare the lives of Mohammad Ramadan and Hussein Moosa, who are at risk of...

Spanish GENEVA (25 January 2017) – A group of United Nations human rights experts* today urged all Dominican Republic legislators to protect women and girls’ rights to sexual and reproductive health...

Committee on the Rights of the Child CRC/17/8 25 January 2017 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the fourth periodic report of Georgia on its implementation...