GENEVA (31 January 2018) – The UN Human Rights Office on Wednesday issued a report detailing its work on producing a database of business enterprises engaged in certain, specific activities in the...

French GENEVA (31 January 2018) – A new law adopted in Mauritania represents a positive attempt to tackle discrimination, but raises major concerns for human rights and must be reformed, a group of UN...

Civil Society Reception to welcome the new HRC President Wednesday, 31 January 2018, 18:00 ISHR, Ground floor reception room, 1 Rue de Varembé Excellencies, Colleagues, Friends, It is very nice to see...

This assessment, prepared by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in collaboration with the Special Rapporteur on toxics and human rights, analyses trends in alleged cases of human rights abuse...

GENEVA (30 January 2018) – A US presidential order slashing the area of land in the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and paving the way for the extraction of natural resources is outrageous and...

GENEVA (29 January 2018) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, will hold a press conference in Seoul on 1 February 2018 to present her end of mission...

GENEVA (29 January 2018) - The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered via video conference the combined third and fourth periodic report of the Marshall Islands under the Convention on...