Also Considers the Issue of Reprisals against Members of Civil Society The Committee against Torture this afternoon considered the issue of follow-up to concluding observations and recommendations and to individual communications, and the issue of reprisals, hearing oral presentations by…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing, which was attended by the Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations Development Programme, World Health Organization, United Nations Children’s Fund, United Nations…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined twelfth to sixteenth periodic report of Sudan on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Introducing the report, Muaz…

The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the third periodic report of The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Introducing the report…

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…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning heard from representatives of non-governmental organizations from Germany and Denmark ahead of its review of their country reports this week. There were no non-governmental organizations present from Sudan, whose report will…

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today concluded its consideration of the combined ninth to eleventh periodic report of Bosnia and Herzegovina on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Predrag Jović,…

Ahmad Fawzi, Director a.i. of the UN Information Service in Geneva, chaired the briefing. The Spokespersons for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations…

The Committee against Torture today concluded its consideration of the fifth periodic report of Colombia on its implementation of the provisions of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. Introducing the report, Marcela Abadia Cubillos,…

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…