GENEVA (30 April 2018) – The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will make its first visit to Portugal from 1 to 10 May 2018 to assess the treatment of people deprived of their...

Stockholm (27 April 2018) – At the end of a 5-day mission to Sweden during which the Independent Expert held meetings in Stockholm and Malmö, Mr. Obiora C. Okafor delivered the following statement:...

GENEVA (30 April 2018) – To ensure a genuine multi-party democracy in Cambodia which respects its citizens’ participation rights, the Government must immediately release detained opposition leaders...

GENEVA (30 April 2018) – UN human rights experts* have called for the retrial of four men sentenced to death by a Bahraini military court in a collective trial that breached fair trial and due process...

French GENEVA / N’DJAMENA (30 April 2018) – The UN Working Group on mercenaries has called for more financial and other resources to stop armed conflict in Chad and surrounding countries and to put an...

Op-Ed by Andrew Gilmour, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Around 700,000 Rohingya refugees have arrived in Bangladesh since last August - victims of a text-book case of ethnic cleansing in...

Montenegrin version GENEVA/PODGORICA (30 April 2018) – An independent expert appointed by the United Nations visiting Montenegro has welcomed the significant efforts of the Government, but said “older...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 30 April 2018 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning held an informal meeting with representatives of non...