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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 >>
Burundi: UN Torture Committee Deplores Lack Of Cooperation In Torture Complaints Procedure
Wednesday, 22 December 2021, 6:44 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (21 December 2021) - The UN Committee against Torture has deplored Burundi’s lack of cooperation in the individual complaints procedure and its failure to implement the Committee’s decisions in all cases where human rights violations were found. ... More >>
Venezuela: Criminal Proceeding Against Prominent Jurist Violated Due Process Guarantees, UN Human Rights Committee Finds
Thursday, 16 December 2021, 7:08 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (15 December 2021) – Venezuela violated a jurist’s rights to be tried by an independent tribunal and to the presumption of innocence, the UN Human Rights Committee said on Wednesday. The Committee’s findings concern jurist Allan Brewer ... More >>
Mexico: Detention & Torture Of HR Defender Highlights Criminalization Of Legitimate Protest, UN Committee Finds
Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 7:09 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (14 December 2021) —The UN Committee against Torture has called on Mexico to stop criminalizing legitimate human rights work, after deciding on the case of a human rights defender targeted for his campaigning, resulting in his being detained ... More >>
UN CERD Publishes Findings On Chile, Denmark, Singapore, Switzerland And Thailand
Saturday, 4 December 2021, 6:34 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (03 December 2021) - The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) today issued its findings on Chile, Denmark, Singapore, Switzerland and Thailand, the States parties that it reviewed during its latest session. The findings contain ... More >>
UN Committee Against Torture Publishes Findings On Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Nigeria, Serbia And Sweden
Saturday, 4 December 2021, 6:27 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (3 December 2021) – The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) on Friday published findings on the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Nigeria, Serbia and Sweden, the six States parties that it reviewed during its latest session. The ... More >>
Ecuador Has Obligation To Ensure Security Inside Prisons, UN Experts
Friday, 3 December 2021, 7:15 pm | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (2 December 2021) – Two UN anti-torture bodies expressed alarm at the ongoing violence in Ecuador’s prison system. They urged the authorities to take necessary measures to prevent the recurrence of deadly clashes and to ensure that those responsible ... More >>
UN Torture Prevention Body Announces Visits For 2022
Wednesday, 1 December 2021, 7:13 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (30 November 2021) — The UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) will visit Argentina, Ecuador, Lebanon, Tukey and Tunisia in 2022. It will also hold high-level talks with the Brazilian authorities on the country’s torture preventive ... More >>
Do More To Support Children Born Of Rape In Armed Conflict And Their Mothers, UN Committees Urge States
Saturday, 20 November 2021, 7:12 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (19 November 2021) – Children born as a result of rape committed in armed conflict must be given better help and support, while women who survive sexual violence require comprehensive protection by the State, two UN committees urged in a joint ... More >>
UN Women’s Rights Committee Issues Findings
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 8:09 am | UN Treaty Bodies
UN Women’s Rights Committee issues findings on Ecuador, Egypt, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Russia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sweden, and Yemen GENEVA (15 November) — The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) today ... More >>
Committee On Enforced Disappearances To Visit Mexico
Saturday, 13 November 2021, 7:00 am | UN Treaty Bodies
GENEVA (12 November 2021) – The United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) will make a country visit to Mexico from 15 to 26 November to identify the means to tackle enforced disappearances. It is the first country visit of the Committee ... More >>
