Geneva (8 August 2016) – The United Nations Committee against Torture has voiced grave concern about reported reprisals against four Burundian lawyers who provided information to it for a special review of Burundi. The Committee has sent a letter to the Burundian ambassador to the United Nations…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from civil society representatives about the situation of racial discrimination in Paraguay, South Africa and Ukraine, ahead of the Committee’s review of the reports of these countries this week. Lebanon will also have…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twenty-first to twenty-third periodic report of the United Kingdom on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twentieth to twenty-second periodic report of Greece on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.…

Also Hears Statements by Japan, China, Republic of Korea, United States, India, Belarus, Iran, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Australia The Conference on Disarmament this morning held a public plenary in which it received further details from the Russian Federation on the draft…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from civil society representatives about the situation in Greece and the United Kingdom, ahead of the Committee’s review of the reports of these countries this week. In Greece, civil society organizations were concerned…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Mongolia on the measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Introducing the report, Ganbat Erdenebat, Deputy General Prosecutor and Senior Advisor for State…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today opened its ninetieth session, hearing an address by Orest Nowosad, Chief, Groups in Focus Section, Human Rights Council and Treaty Mechanisms Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The Committee also adopted…

The Conference on Disarmament this morning opened the third and final segment of its 2016 session. Ambassador Piotr Stachańczyk of Poland, President of the Conference, informed that an informal plenary meeting, seminar-style, would take place on Tuesday, 9 August, with the participation of two…

The Committee against Torture this afternoon concluded its consideration of the special report of Burundi on the measures taken to implement the provisions of the Convention against Torture. Jens Modvig, Chairperson of the Committee, explained that, during the Committee’s 2015 session and due to…