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UN Human Rights Committee Publishes Findings On Bolivia, Cambodia, Iraq, Israel And Qatar
Thursday, 31 March 2022, 7:09 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (30 March 2022) – The UN Human Rights Committee on Wednesday published its findings on the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Cambodia, Iraq, Israel and Qatar, after reviewing the countries during its latest session. The findings contain the ... More >>
UN Disability Rights Committee Issues Findings On Hungary, Jamaica, Mexico, Switzerland And Venezuela
Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 7:45 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (29 March 2022) - The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has issued its findings on Hungary, Jamaica, Mexico, Switzerland and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the five States parties which it examined during its latest ... More >>
UN Committee On Migrant Workers To Review Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde And Paraguay
Saturday, 26 March 2022, 6:58 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (25 March 2022) – The UN Committee on Migrant Workers (CMW) will hold its upcoming session from 28 March to 8 April, during which it will review Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde and Paraguay. Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde and Paraguay are among the 57 States ... More >>
UN Committee On Enforced Disappearances To Review Greece, Niger And Adopt Visit Report On Mexico
Saturday, 26 March 2022, 6:55 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (25 March 2022) The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) will hold its upcoming session from 28 March to 8 April, during which it will review Greece, Niger and adopt its visit report on Mexico. The session will begin on 28 March at ... More >>
Ukraine: Urgent And Extra Support Needed For Separated And Unaccompanied Children, Says UN Child Rights Committee
Friday, 25 March 2022, 7:17 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (24 March 2022) – One month after the Russian Federation began its invasion of Ukraine, around one hundred children have been killed, thousands injured, and many more displaced or separated from their parents and family. The UN Child Rights ... More >>
UN Torture Prevention Body To Visit Tunisia
Friday, 25 March 2022, 7:09 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (24 March 2022) - The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) is set to visit Tunisia from 27 March to 2 April 2022 to assess the country’s implementation of the recommendations it made during its previous visit. "Tunisia was the first ... More >>
Sri Lanka: Criminalisation Of Same-sex Sexual Activity Breached Rights Of A LGBTI Activist - UN Women’s Rights Committee
Thursday, 24 March 2022, 6:30 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (23 March 2022) – Sri Lanka violated the rights of a lesbian and leading LGBTI activist who was subjected to discrimination, threats and abuses due to the country’s Penal Code that criminalises same-sex sexual activity, the UN Committee ... More >>
Belarus: UN Human Rights Committee Condemns Execution
Friday, 11 March 2022, 7:30 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (10 March 2022) –The UN Human Rights Committee on Thursday condemned Belarus for its execution of Victor Pavlov, whose petition was still being examined by the Committee. Victor Pavlov is the 15th person since 2010 whose execution had been carried ... More >>
UN CESCR Issues Findings On Bahrain, Belarus, Czech Republic, DR Congo, Serbia And Uzbekistan
Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 6:53 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (7 March 2022) - The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on Monday published its findings on Bahrain, Belarus, Czech Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Serbia and Uzbekistan. The Committee examined the above six ... More >>
Russia: UN Human Rights Committee Postpones Country Review
Friday, 4 March 2022, 7:06 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (3 March 2022) – The UN Human Rights Committee expressed regret that the Russian Federation delegation could not travel to Geneva to participate in the Committee’s country review, which was scheduled for today and tomorrow. The Committee was due ... More >>
UN Women’s Rights Committee Urges Canada To Amend Transgenerational Discriminatory Indian Act
Friday, 4 March 2022, 6:59 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (3 March 2022) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has called on Canada to fully address the long-standing gender-based discrimination in the country’s Indian Act that continues to affect tens of thousands ... More >>
CEDAW Publishes Findings On Dominican Republic, Gabon, Lebanon, Panama, Peru, Senegal, Uganda & Uzbekistan
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 7:12 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (28 February 2022) — The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) on Monday issued its findings on the Dominican Republic, Gabon, Lebanon, Panama, Peru, Senegal, Uganda and Uzbekistan, the eight States parties that ... More >>
UN Human Rights Committee To Review Qatar, Israel, Russia, Iraq, Bolivia And Cambodia
Saturday, 26 February 2022, 6:40 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (25 February 2022) — The UN Human Rights Committee will hold its upcoming session from 28 February to 25 March, during which it will review Qatar, Israel, the Russian Federation, Iraq, the Plurinational State of Bolivia and Cambodia. The ... More >>
France Violated Rights Of French Children Detained In Syria By Failing To Repatriate Them, UN Committee Finds
Friday, 25 February 2022, 7:32 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (24 February 2022) — France’s failure to repatriate French children who have been held in Syrian camps in life-threatening conditions for years violates their right to life, as well as their right to be free from inhuman and degrading ... More >>
State Of Palestine Against Israel: UN Committee Sets Up Ad Hoc Conciliation Commission
Friday, 18 February 2022, 7:48 pm | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (17 February 2022) — The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has set up an ad hoc Conciliation Commission which will offer its good offices to both the State of Palestine and Israel with a view to resolving the dispute over ... More >>
Brazil Must Abide By International Obligations And Strengthen Its Torture Prevention System, Say UN Experts
Saturday, 12 February 2022, 6:57 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (11 February 2022) – Brazil must comply with its international obligations and reinforce its national prevention mechanisms against torture, experts from the UN torture prevention body said on conclusion to their visit to the country with ... More >>
20 Years Of OPAC: A Battle To Keep Children Out Of Conflicts — UN Experts
Saturday, 12 February 2022, 6:55 am | UN Treaty Bodies
International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers 12 February 2022 GENEVA, New York (11 February 2022) – The UN Child Rights Committee and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict , today jointly ... More >>
UN Committee On Economic, Social & Cultural Rights To Review Congo, Belarus, Czech Republic, Serbia, Uzbekistan, Bahrain
Saturday, 12 February 2022, 6:43 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (11 February 2022) — The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights will hold its upcoming session from 14 February to 4 March, during which it will review the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Belarus, the Czech Republic, ... More >>
Brazil: UN Experts To Hold High-level Talks To Reinforce Torture Prevention System
Tuesday, 1 February 2022, 6:23 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (31 January 2022) – Experts from the UN torture prevention body will visit Brazil from today to 4 February for meetings with senior officials to discuss the country’s policy that amended the national system to prevent and combat torture. ... More >>
UN Child Rights Committee To Review Madagascar And Netherlands
Saturday, 29 January 2022, 10:08 pm | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (28 January 2022) — The UN Child Rights Committee (CRC) will hold its upcoming session from 31 January to 11 February, during which it will review Madagascar and the Netherlands. The two countries are among the 196 States parties to the Child ... More >>
