Evidence from a UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report released today suggests that the attacks against ethnic and religious groups by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant may have been genocide.
Organisations and individuals are invited to submit relevant information for the upcoming report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and UNICEF.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein presents the annual report on the OHCHR activities to open the Human Rights Council session in Geneva on 3 March 2015.
China announced that it would withdraw its proposal to withhold the names of countries that stall the application process of NGOs apply for ECOSOC status.
“To millions of victims of forced labour in Uzbekistan, the bank has said that despite recognising the relationship between their plight and its loans, it is not worth investigating.” (Umida Niyazova, director of the Uzbek-German Forum for Human Rights)