De nombreux rapports indiquent que l’esclavage basé sur l’ascendance est toujours prévalant au Niger bien qu’il soit interdit depuis 2002 en vertu du Code pénal. Le phénomène persisterait encore chez certaines populations du Niger, notamment chez les Arabes, les Peuls, les Toubous et les...

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth periodic report of the Russian Federation, with a Committee Expert expressing serious concern that incidents in the context of the armed conflict in...

  The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning opened its one hundred and ninth session in Geneva, during which it will review anti-discrimination efforts by Argentina, Niger, Philippines, Portugal, Russian Federation and Tajikistan. The Committee heard from the...

  The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families this afternoon concluded its thirty-sixth session after adopting concluding observations on the reports of El Salvador, Morocco, Nigeria and the Philippines. The concluding observations will...

  The Human Rights Council today concluded its fifty-second regular session after adopting 43 resolutions, extending 19 thematic and country-specific mandates, and appointing 10 Special Procedure mandate holders. The Council extended for a period of three years the mandates of the Special...

  Le Conseil des droits de l’homme a achevé cet après-midi les travaux de sa cinquante-deuxième session en adoptant treize résolutions, dont six ont fait l’objet d’un vote. Le Conseil a également nommé quatre membres du Mécanisme d'experts sur le droit au développement ; deux membres du...

  The Human Rights Council this morning adopted eight resolutions, extending mandates on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Belarus, and Syria. Other resolutions adopted concerned the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable...

  The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 22 resolutions, extending mandates on South Sudan, Nicaragua, human rights defenders, minority issues, torture, freedom of opinion and expression, adequate housing, foreign debt, and migrants. The Council also adopted resolutions on the human...

  The Committee on Migrant Workers this afternoon concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of El Salvador on how it implements the provisions of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, with Committee...

  Le Conseil des droits de l’homme a tenu, ce matin, un dialogue avec les membres de la Mission indépendante d’établissement des faits sur la Libye, dont le Président, M. Mohamed Auajjar, a présenté le rapport. Le Conseil a ensuite entendu M. Christian Salazar Volkmann, Directeur de la...