GENEVA (6 July 2017) – The United Nations Working Group on business and human rights will undertake its first official visit to Peru from 10 to 19 July to assess efforts to prevent and address adverse...

GENEVA (6 July 2017) - Burundi, Portugal and Uruguay are among the countries that the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will visit in 2018 to assess the treatment of people deprived of their...

Human Rights Committee 5 July 2017 The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Honduras on the implementation of the provisions of the International...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 6 July 2017 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today considered the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports...

GENEVA (7 July 2017) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, will undertake her sixth information-gathering visit to the country from 10 to 21...

GENEVA (5 July 2017) – Two United Nations human rights experts have issued an urgent appeal for the Governor of Virginia to halt the planned execution of William Morva, a man with psychosocial...

GENEVA (5 July 2017) – Spain violated the right to housing of a family with young children, who were evicted from a rented room in a flat without being provided with alternative housing, UN experts...

Human Rights Committee 5 July2017 The Human Rights Committee today concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Liechtenstein on its implementation of the provisions of the...