The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined ninth to eleventh periodic report of South Africa, with Committee Experts commending the State on the adjustment of apartheid-era laws, and asking questions on attacks by political groups…

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families this afternoon heard from representatives of non-governmental organizations and national human rights institutions about the situation of migrant workers in Uruguay, Mexico and Chile. The…

The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families today opened its thirty-seventh session, during which it will consider reports from Kyrgyzstan, Sao Tome and Principe and Uruguay. Andreas Ori, Chief, Groups in Focus Section, Human Rights…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-third to twenty-sixth periodic report of Germany, with Committee Experts commending Germany on adopting a national action plan to fight racism and raising questions about racial…

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 their efforts to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined nineteenth to twenty-first periodic report of Morocco, with Committee Experts welcoming Morocco’s global activities to promote the International Convention on the Elimination of All…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-first to twenty-sixth periodic report of Bolivia.  Committee Experts commended the State on its measures to incorporate indigenous populations in society, and asked questions on…

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 Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Rapporteur on follow-up to…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its one hundred and eleventh session in Geneva, during which it will review anti-discrimination efforts by Bolivia, Bulgaria, Germany, Morocco, South Africa and Viet Nam and examine individual complaints under article…

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 effective in the world, and raising questions about reported violations of asylum seekers’…