GENEVA (16 November 2023) – Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today...

GENEVA (16 February 2023) – UN human rights experts* today expressed grave concern about reports that at least 10 boys, some as young as 12 years old were allegedly taken away from Camp Roj during the...

GENEVA (25 July 2022) – UN experts* today expressed frustration and grave concern following confirmation of the death of Australian teenager Yusuf Zahab in a North-East Syrian detention facility. The...

GENEVA (17 January 2022) - Taliban leaders in Afghanistan are institutionalizing large scale and systematic gender-based discrimination and violence against women and girls, a group of UN human rights...

GENEVA (7 April 2016) – A group of eighteen United Nations independent experts* has welcomed the new Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights while Countering Terrorism in Africa launched this year...

GENEVA (14 December 2012) – This past year the United Nations Human Rights Council has created new monitoring and reporting mechanisms on the situation of human rights in Syria, Eritrea and Belarus...

Fifty-seventh General Assembly Third Committee 23 October 2002 24th & 25th Meetings (AM & PM) The newly confirmed Special Rapporteur on measures to Combat Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial...

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Fifty-fifth General Assembly Third Committee 26 October 2000 37th Meeting (PM) States would be urged to adopt legislation against mercenary activities, according to a draft adopted this afternoon by...