GENEVA/WASHINGTON/BANJUL (5 December 2023) – A group of UN and regional independent human rights experts today launched the Platform of Independent Experts on Refugee Rights (PIERR), to better...

The Committee against Torture this morning closed its seventy-eighth session after adopting its concluding observations on the reports of Burundi, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Kiribati and Slovenia on...

GENEVA (24 November 2023) - The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) today issued its findings on Burundi, Costa Rica, Denmark, Egypt, Kiribati and Slovenia, after reviewing the six States parties in...

The Committee against Torture today discussed reports on follow-up to concluding observations, individual communications and reprisals under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or...

The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the fourth periodic report of Slovenia, with Committee Experts praising the State’s national preventive mechanism as one of the most...

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Egypt on its efforts to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture, with...

The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the eighth periodic report of Denmark, with Committee Experts welcoming Denmark’s global efforts to combat torture and raising...

Report The Committee has before it the initial report of Kiribati (CAT/C/KRI/1). Presentation of Report KAARO NEETI, Secretary for the Ministry of Justice of Kiribati, Chairperson of the Kiribati...

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 Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of Burundi on its efforts to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other...