Adopts Concluding Recommendations on Reports of Gabon, Azerbaijan, Ecuador, Tuvalu, Denmark, Kyrgyzstan, Eritrea and Maldives The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women today concluded its sixtieth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Gambia, Paraguay and Tajikistan The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights this afternoon concluded its fifty-fourth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Gambia,…

28th SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCILGeneva, Switzerland, 2-27 March 2015 The 28th session of the Human Rights Council will be held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2 to 27 March 2015.Media accreditation Representatives of the media will need to be accredited for the…

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its fourteenth session, which was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 23 to 27 February 2015. During the session the Advisory Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as a think-tank to the United Nations Human Rights…

Session to Include High-level Segment; Presentations by Commissions of Inquiry on Syria, Gaza and Eritrea; and Discussions on more than 100 Reports on a Wide Range of Human Rights Themes and Countries The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its twenty-eighth regular session from 2 to…

GENEVA/NEW YORK, 20 February 2015 -- Unthinkable crimes continue to occur daily in Syria with victims’ voices in danger of being lost amidst the horrors of a conflict now approaching its fifth year, a group of United Nations experts warned today. In its latest report, the United Nations commission…

The fourteenth session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will take place from 23 to 27 February 2015 at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. During the session, the Committee, a body of 18 independent experts serving as a think-tank to the United Nations Human Rights Council, will work on…

Geneva -- The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea will visit Djibouti and Ethiopia from 16 to 27 February to hold meetings and collect testimonies and accounts on the human rights situation in Eritrea. The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea…

The Committee on Enforced Disappearances closed its eighth session today, after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Mexico, Armenia and Serbia, on their implementation of the provisions of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from…

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its concluding observations on the States it examined during its sixty-eighth session from 12 to 30 January: Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Turkmenistan, Sweden, Mauritius, Gambia, Tanzania, Jamaica, Uruguay, Colombia, Iraq and Switzerland…