The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Costa Rica, with Committee Experts praising the State’s legal and institutional safeguards against...

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon adopted a report on follow-up to views concerning Colombia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Paraguay and Tajikistan. José Manuel Santos Pais, Committee...

GENEVA (1 November 2023) – Grave human rights violations against children are mounting by the minute in the Gaza Strip, and there are no winners in a war where thousands of children are killed. The UN...

GENEVA (30 October 2023) - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) today issued its findings on Albania, Bhutan, France, Guatemala, Jamaica, Malawi, Nicaragua, the...

The Committee against Torture this morning opened its seventy-eighth session, which is being held in Geneva from 30 October to 24 November, during which it will review efforts by Burundi, Costa Rica...

GENEVA (27 October 2023) – The UN Committee against Torture will hold its latest session from 30 October to 24 November 2023, during which it will examine Burundi, Costa Rica, Kiribati, Denmark, Egypt...

GENEVA (27 October 2023) – Alarmed by the scale of violence and the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the occupied Gaza Strip and fearing the prospects of a broader conflict, the UN Committee on...

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today closed its eighty-sixth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of Albania, Bhutan, France, Guatemala...