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Corporate power undermine workers’ assembly
Friday, 21 October 2016, 10:06 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Pursuit of profit and corporate power undermine workers’ assembly and association rights, warns UN expert More >>
UN Special Rapporteur to probe in Australia
Saturday, 1 October 2016, 1:01 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA / CANBERRA (30 September 2016) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Michel Forst will visit Australia from 4 to 18 October 2016 to assess the overall environment for human rights defenders and civil society in the country. More >>
Violence against women: UN human rights expert
Saturday, 10 September 2016, 7:07 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Violence against women: UN human rights expert to visit Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory More >>
Calls for the creation of compensation commissions
Saturday, 10 September 2016, 7:06 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (9 September 2016) – The United Nations expert on human rights and international sanctions, Idriss Jazairy, today called for the creation of compensation commissions under the auspices of the UN, to help those affected by unilateral sanctions bring ... More >>
Experts to support the work of Special Rapporteur on DPRK
Saturday, 10 September 2016, 7:05 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (9 September 2016) - In accordance with a resolution* adopted by the Human Rights Council on 23 March, the UN High Commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has designated two independent human rights experts, Ms. Sonja Biserko ... More >>
UN Committee against Torture publishes findings on Kuwait
Sunday, 14 August 2016, 11:04 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (12 August 2016) – The UN Committee against Torture has published its findings on the countries it examined during its latest session from 25 July to 12 August: Kuwait, Honduras, Burundi and Mongolia. More >>
Spokespersons for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Sunday, 17 July 2016, 4:40 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
In a press release issued this morning, High Commissioner Zeid rang the alarm about the increasingly desperate situation of at least 200,000 civilians trapped in three towns in Syria where attacking forces have been making significant headway in recent ... More >>
At least 200,000 civilians in dire straits as noose tightens
Sunday, 17 July 2016, 4:30 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
At least 200,000 civilians in dire straits as noose tightens in three Syrian towns – Zeid More >>
UN Human Rights Chief to visit DRC, 18 – 21 July 2016
Sunday, 17 July 2016, 4:25 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA/KINSHASA (15 July 2016) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein will begin a four-day official visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday, at the invitation of the Government. More >>
Nelson Mandela International Day
Sunday, 17 July 2016, 4:23 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Let’s mark Mandela Day by adopting a minimum set of human rights for millions of detainees More >>
UN expert group condemns recent killings
Saturday, 9 July 2016, 8:35 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (8 July 2016) – Human rights expert Ricardo A. Sunga III, who currently Chairs the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, issued the following statement after this week’s deaths of Philando Castile in ... More >>
UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine launches first mission
Saturday, 9 July 2016, 8:00 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (8 July 2016) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk will undertake his first official mission from 10 to 15 July to gather first-hand information on the current human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. He will ... More >>
UN experts urge Knesset not to adopt pending legislation
Sunday, 26 June 2016, 9:14 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Israel: UN experts urge Knesset not to adopt pending legislation that could target critical NGOs More >>
Freedom of expression experts warn of interference
Sunday, 26 June 2016, 9:12 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Freedom of expression experts warn of interference with the Brazilian Public Broadcaster and the National Controller’s Office More >>
Trade agreements: UN rights expert shares warning
Saturday, 25 June 2016, 3:39 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (24 June 2016) – United Nations human rights expert Alfred de Zayas today warned that any plan by the European Union to bypass national parliaments to push through controversial trade deals would violate international human rights norms ... More >>
UN experts urge the Iranian Gov't to free jailed artists
Saturday, 25 June 2016, 3:25 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
'Artistic expression is not a crime” – UN rights experts urge the Iranian Government to free jailed artists More >>
Fundamentalist intolerance is degrading assembly rights
Sunday, 19 June 2016, 10:22 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (17 June 2016) – The phenomenon of fundamentalism is fueling growing intolerance worldwide, which poses a grave threat to the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, United Nations expert Maina Kiai told the Human Rights Council ... More >>
UN Special Rapporteur to undertake official country visit
Sunday, 19 June 2016, 10:18 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (17 June 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, will undertake an official visit to the country from 20 June to 1st July 2016. This visit takes place at a key juncture for ... More >>
Burundi: UN experts call for concrete steps to end crisis
Sunday, 19 June 2016, 10:16 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
BUJUMBURA/GENEVA (17 June 2016): At the end of their second visit to Burundi, the three human rights experts of the United Nations Independent Investigation on Burundi (UNIIB) called for concrete steps to be taken to end the crisis in the country. More >>
Digital technology in education can impair an inherent right
Saturday, 18 June 2016, 7:04 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Digital technology in education can impair the right to education and widen inequalities – New UN report warns More >>
