Spanish MEXICO CITY / GENEVA (19 January 2017) – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst, condemned the murder of environmental human rights defender...

The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined third to fifth periodic report of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on its implementation of the...

Summary This report focuses on the “financialization” of housing and its impact on human rights. It examines structural changes in recent years whereby massive amounts of global capital have been...

GENEVA (18 January 2017) - The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Barbados on its implementation of the Convention on the Rights of...

GENEVA (18 January 2017) - The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning completed its consideration of the combined second to fourth periodic report of Estonia on its efforts to implement the...

GENEVA (18 January 2017) – The United Nations Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred de Zayas, welcomes the commutation of Chelsea Manning’s 35...

GENEVA (17 January 2017) – Children’s rights in Serbia will be reviewed by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on 24 January in sessions that will be webcast live. Serbia is one of the 196...