SAN SALVADOR / GENEVA (29 April 2016) – United Nations human rights expert Urmila Bhoola today called on the Government of El Salvador to develop and implement a wide range of initiatives to protect...

GENEVA (15 April 2016) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Urmila Bhoola will visit El Salvador from 18 to 29 April 2016 to assess the extent to which contemporary forms of slavery, including child...

GENEVA (3 March 2016) – There is a tendency to downplay gender-based crimes of violence against women and minimize the grave consequences caused to women around the world, a group of United Nations...

GENEVA (12 February 2016) – United Nations human rights experts* today urged the Government of Nigeria to ensure that the areas they claim to have liberated from Boko Haram forces are truly safe for...

AMMAN / GENEVA (4 February 2016) – United Nations human rights expert Maria Grazia Giammarinaro today welcomed Jordan’s strong commitment to fight trafficking in persons, but urged the Government to...

Arabic Amman, 4 February 2016 - Following an invitation by the Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, I conducted an official visit to the countryfrom 28 January to 4 February 2016 to assess...

Arabic GENEVA (26 January 2016) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Maria Grazia Giammarinaro will carry out her first official visit to Jordan from 28 January to 4 February 2016 to assess the...

Abuja, 22 January 2016 Members of the press, Ladies and gentlemen, Today we have completed a five day-visit to Nigeria to examine measures taken by the Government of Nigeria to assist in the...

ABUJA / GENEVA (22 January 2016) – Three United Nations human rights experts today called on the Government of Nigeria to aim at the transformation of society in its efforts to rehabilitate and...

GENEVA (13 January 2016) – Three United Nations human rights experts will visit Nigeria from 18 to 22 January 2016 to examine the measures to assist in the rehabilitation and reintegration of the...