- Recognizing legal capacity should not be dependent on ‘discriminatory mental capacity assessments’, says UN Committee on Rights of Persons with Disabilities- Accessibility is key for the enjoyment of human rights on an equal basisGENEVA (Issued as received) – People with disabilities have the...

GENEVA (16 April 2014) - Argentine authorities failed to ensure that a prisoner with disabilities was able to use prison facilities and services on an equal basis with other detainees and are obliged to take steps to rectify the situation, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Uruguay, El Salvador, Mali and the Philippines The Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families today concluded its twentieth session after adopting its concluding observations and...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on Reports of Azerbaijan, Costa Rica and Sweden The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities today concluded its eleventh session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Azerbaijan, Costa Rica...

GENEVA (9 April 2014) - Lithuania violated the political rights of ex-president Rolandas Paksas when it introduced a rule to ban anyone who had been impeached from running for or holding high office just weeks after the former leader had himself been removed from his post for abuse of power, the...

GENEVA (7 April 2014) –United Nations experts have issued a renewed appeal to all countries to sign up to a landmark treaty on the rights of migrant workers that came into force some 10 years ago. “Forty-seven countries have ratified the treaty but that number is far too low given the abuse and...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of Germany and the Netherlands The Committee on Enforced Disappearances closed its sixth session this afternoon after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the reports of Germany and the Netherlands. It also...

Adopts Concluding Observations and Recommendations on the Reports of Chad, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Nepal, Sierra Leone and the United States The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its one hundredth and tenth session after adopting its concluding observations and recommendations on the...

GENEVA - The United Nations Group of Governmental Experts, which has been tasked to make recommendations on possible aspects that could contribute to but not negotiate a treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices, will meet for the first...

Also adopts resolutions on Syria, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Iran, Myanmar and South Sudan The Human Rights Council concluded its twenty-fifth regular session this evening after adopting 42 texts on a wide range of issues and its report for the session. The Council also adopted the...