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Ukraine crisis: Pillay sends urgent call for restraint
Thursday, 20 February 2014, 11:21 am | OHCHR
GENEVA (19 February 2014) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on Wednesday called on all parties in Ukraine to exercise maximum restraint after 22 people were killed during violent clashes in Kiev between riot police and protesters ... More >>
Living under siege
Thursday, 20 February 2014, 10:11 am | OHCHR
GENEVA (19 February 2014) – Sieges imposed by Syrian Government forces and pro-Government militias, as well as by armed opposition groups, have resulted in severe hardship, suffering and deaths of civilians, in clear breach of the obligations imposed by ... More >>
Pillay calls for urgent action on “historic” DPRK report
Wednesday, 19 February 2014, 10:28 am | OHCHR
GENEVA (18 February 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday welcomed the report of the independent UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which was published in Geneva ... More >>
North Korea: Crimes against humanity documented by UN
Tuesday, 18 February 2014, 12:56 pm | OHCHR
North Korea: UN Commission documents wide-ranging and ongoing crimes against humanity, urges referral to ICC More >>
Torture: Tajikistan still needs to breach the gap
Thursday, 13 February 2014, 11:00 am | OHCHR
Torture: “Tajikistan still needs to breach the gap between policies and reality” – UN rights expert More >>
UN Expert: Spain should trust its democracy
Thursday, 6 February 2014, 10:54 am | OHCHR
“Spain should trust its democracy and work for victims’ rights” – UN expert on transitional justice More >>
UN Expert: “Seychelles is not out of reach”
Tuesday, 4 February 2014, 10:24 am | OHCHR
“Seychelles is not out of reach” – UN expert calls for further measures to prevent and fight trafficking in persons More >>
India: UN human rights experts welcome Supreme Court ruling
Friday, 31 January 2014, 4:39 pm | OHCHR
GENEVA (30 January 2014) – Two United Nations independent experts welcomed a recent decision by the Supreme Court of India to commute to life imprisonment the death sentences of 15 individuals, and to introduce guidelines safeguarding the rights ... More >>
UN Special Rapporteur commends Rwandan Government
Wednesday, 29 January 2014, 10:23 am | OHCHR
KIGALI / GENEVA (28 January 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai commended the Rwandan Government on its economic development in the 20 years since the 1994 genocide, but urged that undue restrictions on the freedoms of peaceful ... More >>
Central African Republic at a critical juncture warns Pillay
Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 10:50 am | OHCHR
GENEVA (27 January 2014) – The Central African Republic is now at a critical juncture, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned on Monday, amid renewed fighting and the flight of ex-Séléka and Muslim civilians towards the north ... More >>
New Zealand to have its human rights record reviewed by UN
Monday, 27 January 2014, 11:19 am | OHCHR
On Monday 27 January, the Universal Periodic Review Working Group will examine the progress of New Zealand in protecting and promoting human rights within the framework of the second cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). More >>
Iran: Rights experts alarmed at sharp increase in hangings
Thursday, 23 January 2014, 10:59 am | OHCHR
“Stop the executions” – UN rights experts alarmed at the sharp increase in hangings in Iran More >>
Syria: Human rights-based peace deal urged at Conference
Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 10:41 am | OHCHR
Syria: Key UN expert group urges human rights-based peace deal at Geneva II Conference More >>
Situation of Human Rights in the Central African Republic
Tuesday, 21 January 2014, 2:20 pm | OHCHR
Statement by High Commissioner Pillay at the Special Session of the Human Rights Council on the Situation of Human Rights in the Central African Republic More >>
UN High Commissioner concerned over mass executions
Friday, 17 January 2014, 11:52 am | OHCHR
GENEVA (16 January 2014) – As reports continued to emerge of a succession of mass executions in northern Syria, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday warned armed opposition groups that executions and unlawful killings are ... More >>
UN High Commissioner calls for cross-border cooperation
Thursday, 16 January 2014, 11:37 am | OHCHR
Pillay calls for cross-border cooperation to bring fugitives to justice in Africa’s Great Lakes Region More >>
UN human rights chief denounces new anti-homosexuality law
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 9:08 am | OHCHR
GENEVA (14 January 2014) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed her alarm at a “draconian” new law in Nigeria that criminalizes same-sex unions, saying it violates a wide range of human rights More >>
UN body now able to hear individual children complaints
Tuesday, 14 January 2014, 3:28 pm | OHCHR
GENEVA (14 January 2014) – Children whose rights have been violated will soon be able to complain to a key UN Committee after a new legal instrument on the rights of the child was ratified by the required 10 countries. More >>
Myanmar - Presidential Pardon
Friday, 3 January 2014, 2:12 pm | OHCHR
We welcome the pardon granted yesterday by President Thein Sein to political prisoners convicted of or prosecuted for various offences under seven specific laws, including unlawful association, peaceful assembly, treason and sedition. This is an important ... More >>
UN experts condemn lethal drone airstrikes in Yemen
Friday, 27 December 2013, 11:06 am | OHCHR
GENEVA (26 December 2013) – United Nations human rights experts today expressed serious concern about recent lethal drone airstrikes, allegedly conducted by US forces in the Republic of Yemen, that resulted in civilian casualties. More >>
