GENEVA (8 May 2013) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged world Governments to ratify a key international instrument that allows individuals and groups who have been denied...

GENEVA (4 May 2013) – “They are regarded as ghosts and not human beings who can be wiped off the global map. They are people living with albinism*, the target of many false and harmful myths in...

BANJUL (11 April 2013) – The United Nations Independent Expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák, today warned that hundreds of minority groups across Africa are in dire need of strengthened attention...

GENEVA (8 April 2013) – “It is a positive development that the fate of Europe’s largest and most marginalized minority group, the Roma, is more and more on the international human rights agenda,” said...

GENEVA (29 March 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts today called on all parties in Bangladesh “to cease violence immediately and return to peaceful demonstrations,”...

GENEVA (12 March 2013) – The United Nations Independent Expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák, today warned that half of the world’s estimated 6,000 plus languages will likely die out by the end of...

Geneva (25 January 2013) - A group of United Nations independent experts on Iran, peaceful assembly and of association, extrajudicial executions, torture and minorities today urged the Iranian...

GENEVA (31 October 2012) – Three United Nations experts on Myanmar, minority issues and internally displaced persons today expressed their deep concern over continuing inter-communal violence in...

SARAJEVO (25 September 2012) – United Nations expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák, said today that damaging political, ethnic and religious divisions continue to exist in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and...