29/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - Palau signs eight treaties on human rights. On Thursday 29 September, Catherine Ashton, EU High Representative, welcomed the fact that Palau had signed eight essential United Nations treaties on human rights eight days earlier. This included the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all...