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Croatia’s Detention Facilities In Spotlight As UN Torture Prevention Body Concludes Visit
Tuesday, 18 July 2023, 8:29 pm | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (18 July 2023) — Croatia has made progress in improving detention conditions in the country, but much more needs to be done, including tackling overcrowding and its negative impact on people deprived of their liberty, UN experts said. The comments ... More >>
Statement On France By The UN Committee On The Elimination Of Racial Discrimination
Saturday, 8 July 2023, 6:14 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (7 July 2023) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, CERD, today adopted a statement on the situation in France, expressing its concerns and making a number of recommendations to the State regarding racial profiling and ... More >>
UN Torture Prevention Body Announces Visits For 2024
Tuesday, 4 July 2023, 5:29 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (3 July 2023) — The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has announced plans to visit Albania, Bolivia, Gabon, and Mongolia in the first half of 2024, and confirmed upcoming visits to Croatia, Georgia, Guatemala, the State ... More >>
UN Human Rights Committee Regrets Burundi’s Withdrawal From Public Dialogue
Tuesday, 4 July 2023, 5:28 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (3 July 2023) – The UN Human Rights Committee has expressed deep regret that the dialogue with Burundi to examine the implementation of civil and political rights in the country could not take place as planned. The Committee decided to continue ... More >>
UN Torture Prevention Body To Visit Croatia
Friday, 30 June 2023, 8:52 pm | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (30 June) – The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will make its first visit to Croatia from 2 to 8 July to assess the treatment of people deprived of their liberty and the safeguards in place to protect them from torture and ill-treatment. ... More >>
Cambodia Failed To Protect Rural Woman Human Rights Defender And Violated Her Rights, UN Committee Finds
Tuesday, 27 June 2023, 11:06 pm | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (27 June 2023) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) found that Cambodia’s lack of action to protect a rural woman rights defender from forced eviction and threat by a land developer, as well as the ... More >>
UN CEDAW To Review Timor-Leste, Sao Tomé & Principe, Germany, China, Spain, Slovakia, Venezuela, Iceland
Saturday, 13 May 2023, 6:21 pm | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (4 May 2023) - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) will hold its upcoming session from 8 to 26 May, during which it will review Timor-Leste, Sao Tomé and Principe, Germany, China (including Hong Kong SAR, ... More >>
Madagascar: Extreme prison overcrowding needs urgent fix, UN experts
Wednesday, 3 May 2023, 5:09 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (02 May 2023) - The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture has expressed alarm at the overcrowding in Madagascar’s prison facilities, which it observed during its first visit to the country. “The extreme overcrowding we witnessed in ... More >>
Stop deporting Haitians on the move in Americas, UN Committee warns
Saturday, 29 April 2023, 5:03 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (28 April 2023) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) today called on State parties in the region to suspend forced returns and adopt measures to protect Haitians on the move, after 36,000 people of Haitian origin ... More >>
UN Committee On Migrant Workers Publishes Findings On El Salvador, Morocco, Nigeria And Philippines
Friday, 14 April 2023, 5:24 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (13 April 2023) – The UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of their Families (CMW) today issued its findings on El Salvador, Morocco, Nigeria and the Philippines after reviewing the four States ... More >>
UN Torture Prevention Body To Conduct First Visit To Madagascar
Thursday, 13 April 2023, 7:51 pm | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (13 April 2023) - The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will visit Madagascar for the first time from 16 to 27 April to assess the treatment of people deprived of their liberty and the safeguards available to protect them from ... More >>
Kazakhstan needs to strengthen effective torture prevention measures, UN torture prevention body finds
Friday, 7 April 2023, 5:28 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (6 April 2023) Kazakhstan must take further action to protect detainees from torture and ill-treatment and ensure its national preventive mechanism plays an effective and crucial role in this regard, experts from the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of ... More >>
Mexico: UN Experts Call For Investigations Into Migrant Deaths At Ciudad Juarez Immigration Detention Centre
Thursday, 6 April 2023, 5:00 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (05 April 2023) – Condemning the events that led to the death of 39 migrants and asylum seekers at an immigration detention centre in northern Mexico, UN experts today called for prompt, thorough and independent investigations into the tragedy. ... More >>
Iraq: UN Committee Urges Urgent Investigation And Legislation To Eradicate Enforced Disappearances
Wednesday, 5 April 2023, 5:54 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (4 April 2023) – With up to one million people estimated to have been victims of disappearance, including enforced disappearance, over the past five decades and the crisis continuing today with ongoing patterns, the UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances ... More >>
Tunisia must immediately stop hate speech & violence against migrants from south of Sahara, CERD issues early warning
Tuesday, 4 April 2023, 7:00 pm | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (4 April 2023) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) urged Tunisia’s highest authorities to publicly condemn and distance themselves from racist hate speech by politicians and public and private figures. It also called ... More >>
UN disability rights committee publishes findings on Angola, Argentina, Georgia, Peru, Togo and Tunisia
Thursday, 30 March 2023, 6:00 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (29 March 2023) - The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) today issued its findings on Angola, Argentina, Georgia, Peru, Togo and Tunisia, after reviewing the six States parties during its latest session. The findings contain ... More >>
UN Human Rights Committee Publishes Findings On Egypt, Panama, Peru, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan And Zambia
Saturday, 25 March 2023, 5:20 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (24 March 2023) – The UN Human Rights Committee today issued its findings on Egypt, Panama, Peru, Sri Lanka, Turkmenistan and Zambia, after examining the six States parties in its latest session. The findings contain the Committee's main concerns ... More >>
South Africa Must Fully Comply With International Obligations To Prevent Torture, Experts Urge After First Country Visit
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 5:55 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (13 March 2023) - UN torture prevention experts today called on South Africa to expedite its legislative measures for setting up a national torture prevention watchdog to regularly examine prisons, detention centres and other facilities. The ... More >>
Philippines Violated The Rights Of Victims Of Sexual Slavery Perpetrated By Imperial Japanese Army
Thursday, 9 March 2023, 6:22 am | UN Treaty Bodies
Philippines failed to redress continuous discrimination and suffering of sexual slavery victims perpetrated by Imperial Japanese Army, UN committee finds GENEVA (8 March 2023) – The UN women’s rights committee has found that the Philippines ... More >>
UN CEDAW Publishes Findings On Bahrain, Costa Rica, Georgia, Hungary, Mauritania, Norway, Slovenia, Tunisia
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 6:33 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (28 February 2023) - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) today issued its findings on Bahrain, Costa Rica, Georgia, Hungary, Mauritania, Norway, Slovenia and Tunisia, the States parties that it reviewed ... More >>
