Adopts Recommendations on Reports of Iraq, Slovakia and Switzerland The Committee against Torture today concluded its fifty-fifth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Iraq, Slovakia and Switzerland on their implementation of the provisions of…

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children have condemned the execution in Pakistan of Shafqat Hussein, who was reportedly 14 years old when he was convicted of murder. “The execution of Shafqat…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination opened its eighty-seventh session this morning and adopted its agenda. The Committee was addressed by Carla Edelenbos, Chief of Petitions and Inquiries Section at the Human Rights Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for…

Adopts Recommendations on Reports of Colombia, Congo, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Romania, Serbia, Spain and The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia The Committee against Torture today concluded its fifty-fourth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports…

Adopts Concluding Recommendations on Reports of Sudan, Germany, Guatemala, France, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Denmark The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its eighty-sixth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of…

GENEVA (4 May 2015) – The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has welcomed South Sudan’s ratification* of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and repeated its call for universal ratification of the Convention: “We applaud South Sudan for ratifying the Convention on the Rights…

GENEVA (30 April 2015) – Australia violated the right to family life of an Iranian man who had to leave the country after 16 years because he was considered a threat to national security but was never told why, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has found. Iranian national Mansour Leghaei…

The twenty-second session of the Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group will be held in Geneva from 4 to 15 May during which the next group of 14 States are scheduled to have their human rights records examined under this mechanism. The group of States to be reviewed…

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Kyrgyzstan, Peru and Uganda The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families today concluded its twenty-second session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations…

GENEVA (Issued as received) – The latest, and worst, loss of life in the Mediterranean Sea demands concerted action by all to save migrants' lives, the UN Committee on the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families today urged. “We once again express our shock and dismay at the…