Spanish GENEVA (16 January 2018) – The entry into force today of a law on enforced disappearances in Mexico could turn the page on a dark chapter of the country on this issue, and start a process of...

GENEVA (16 January 2018) - The Committee on the Rights of the Child today concluded its consideration of the combined fifth to sixth periodic report of Sri Lanka under the Convention on the Rights of...

RAMALLAH (16 January 2018) – OHCHR today expressed deep concern at the almost one month long pre-trial detention of the Palestinian child Ahed Tamimi. “The Convention on the Rights of the Child is...

Summary The thematic study contains an analysis of the international legal framework and specific violations to the rights to identity, access to origins and to a family environment. It then provides...

Summary Housing conditions around the world remain extremely challenging, with homelessness on the rise including in most affluent countries, forced evictions and displacement continuing unabated...

GENEVA (15 January 2018) – Burundi’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Thursday, 18 January 2018...

GENEVA (15 January 2018) – Luxembourg’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Thursday, 18 January...

GENEVA (15 January 2018) – Three independent experts* appointed by the UN have expressed concerns about recent reports that indigenous Sengwer peoples in western Kenya have been attacked and forcibly...

GENEVA (15 January 2018) - The Committee on the Rights of the Child opened its seventy-seventh session this morning, hearing an address by Kate Gilmore, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for...

GENEVA (12 January 2018) – The Bahamas’s human rights record will be examined by the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group for the third time on Wednesday, 17 January...