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Violence directed against the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar
Saturday, 21 March 2015, 10:55 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Statement by the Coordination Committee of Special Procedures on the repeated hate speech and incitement to violence directed against the Special Rapporteur on Myanmar More >>
Maldives: No democracy without fair and independent justice
Friday, 20 March 2015, 4:18 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (19 March 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Gabriela Knaul, warned today of a seriously deteriorating situation in the independence of the justice system in the Maldives since she visited ... More >>
Georgia has come a long way, but more needs to be done
Friday, 20 March 2015, 4:16 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Georgia has come a long way, but more needs to be done – UN Special Rapporteur on torture More >>
World Water Day – Sunday 22 March
Friday, 20 March 2015, 4:06 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
‘All eyes on post-2015 to reduce the inequality gap in access to water and sanitation’ – UN expert More >>
Conduct of trial of Maldives’ ex-President raises concerns
Friday, 20 March 2015, 1:08 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (18 March 2015) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday expressed strong concerns about the hasty and apparently unfair trial of the former President of the Maldives, Mohammed Nasheed, who received a 13-year ... More >>
Religious freedom expert's first official visit to Lebanon
Friday, 20 March 2015, 1:00 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA / BEIRUT (18 March 2015) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Heiner Bielefeldt will carry out his first information-gathering visit to Lebanon, from 23 March to 2 April 2015, to assess the freedom of religion or belief in the country. More >>
Dementia a public health priority and human rights concern
Thursday, 19 March 2015, 3:59 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
“Dementia, a public health priority and a human rights concern” – UN expert on older people More >>
Attacks against people with albinism
Saturday, 14 March 2015, 11:57 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein this morning issued a press release expressing revulsion at a recent surge in violent attacks against people with albinism in several East African countries. In the past six months, at ... More >>
Mauritania / rights activists
Saturday, 14 March 2015, 11:55 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
We have been closely following the judicial proceedings in Mauritania against members of two civil society organisations, including the anti-slavery Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), after they held a demonstration on ... More >>
Beijing+20 review: “Older women must not remain invisible”
Friday, 13 March 2015, 9:40 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (12 March 2015) – United Nations human rights expert Rosa Kornfeld-Matte today called on the main global body dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women to ensure that the concerns of older women are taken ... More >>
UN agencies welcome Tonga’s decision to ratify CEDAW
Friday, 13 March 2015, 9:28 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN Women and the Regional UN Human Rights Office for the Pacific welcome the Government of Tonga’s agreement to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). More >>
Detention is inextricably linked with ill-treatment
Thursday, 12 March 2015, 9:16 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (10 March 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Juan E. Méndez, today urged States to adopt new alternatives to the detention of children that fulfill the child’s best interests and the authorities’ obligation to protect ... More >>
Report on: Violence committed in the name of religion
Thursday, 12 March 2015, 4:08 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
It is too simple to reduce religious motives to mere pretexts for violence – New report More >>
Gambia, Paraguay, Tajikistan: UN Committee publishes review
Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 3:56 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (9 March 2015) – The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) has published its findings on Gambia, Paraguay, and Tajikistan which it examined during its session from 23 February to 6 March in Geneva. More >>
Election Law Srcutiny Needed in Cambodia
Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 3:54 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
“Full public consultation on Election Law critical for the future of democracy in Cambodia” – UN rights expert More >>
UN human rights expert meets with Eritrean refugees
Tuesday, 10 March 2015, 3:44 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (9 March 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, today started an official visit to Belgium (9-11 March) to collect first-hand information from Eritrean refugees and migrants ... More >>
States to go “beyond lip-service, towards gender equality”
Saturday, 7 March 2015, 11:47 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (5 March 2015) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein today highlighted “the pressing need for women to participate in all discussions of strategic responses to extremist violence, to discrimination, and to deprivation ... More >>
Canada: Murder and disappearance of Aboriginal women
Saturday, 7 March 2015, 11:21 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Canada’s failure to effectively address murder and disappearance of Aboriginal women ‘grave rights violation’ - UN experts More >>
Death toll in eastern Ukraine crosses 6,000
Tuesday, 3 March 2015, 4:18 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Death toll in eastern Ukraine crosses 6,000, Zeid says, as UN releases new report More >>
Trafficking in persons in Malaysia
Tuesday, 3 March 2015, 12:42 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA / KUALA LUMPUR (2 March 2015) – United Nations human rights expert Maria Grazia Giammarinaro urged* the Malaysian Government to improve the prevention of trafficking in persons and the protection of human rights of its victims at the end ... More >>
