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Holocaust Commemoration Day
Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 11:25 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein statement ahead of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 27 January 2015, Geneva More >>
Cabo Verde must prioritise housing for the poorest
Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 6:26 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
PRAIA / GENEVA (26 January 2015) – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing and non-discrimination Leilani Farha on Monday called on the Government of Cabo Verde to prioritise measures to ensure the poorest members of ... More >>
Portugal Justice System Under Assessment
Saturday, 24 January 2015, 12:43 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (23 January 2015) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Gabriela Knaul will carry out an official visit to Portugal from 27 January to 3 February 2015, to assess the independence of judges, lawyers, and prosecutors, as well as the functioning ... More >>
Abuse of the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar
Saturday, 24 January 2015, 12:18 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on the abuse of the Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee More >>
OHCHR NOTES - (1) ISIL / Iraq, (2) Death penalty in SE Asia
Thursday, 22 January 2015, 12:58 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
ISIL has established unlawful, so-called “shari’a courts” in the territory under its control that have been meting out cruel and inhuman punishments to men, women and children accused of violating the group’s extremist interpretations of ... More >>
Myanmar : Backtracking on democratic space
Thursday, 22 January 2015, 12:48 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
YANGON / GENEVA (19 January 2015) – “Valuable gains made in the area of freedom of expression and assembly risk being lost,” United Nations Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee said at the end of her ten-day official visit* to the country. “Indeed, ... More >>
UN Rights Expert Cancels Visit to Palestinian Territory
Saturday, 17 January 2015, 11:18 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Israel’s lack of cooperation leads to cancelled visit by UN rights expert to the occupied Palestinian territory More >>
Zeid appeal to Saudi Arabia to stop flogging of bloggers
Saturday, 17 January 2015, 11:07 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (15 January 2015) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Thursday appealed to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to halt the punishment of Raef Badawi, who was publicly flogged 50 times last Friday and is reportedly due ... More >>
Final fact-finding mission to Cambodia
Thursday, 15 January 2015, 9:47 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA / PHNOM PENH (13 January 2015) – United Nations human rights expert Surya P. Subedi will carry out an official visit to Cambodia from 17 to 25 January 2014. This is Mr. Subedi’s last mission in his capacity as the Special Rapporteur on ... More >>
UN Human Rights Chief deplores Paris attack
Thursday, 8 January 2015, 7:26 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (7 January 2015) – Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on the killings by gunmen at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris. More >>
UN Rapporteur condemns attack on journalists in Paris
Thursday, 8 January 2015, 7:20 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (7 January 2015) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, condemned in the strongest possible terms the attack on journalists at the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. More >>
UN child rights body to review 12 countries
Tuesday, 6 January 2015, 8:34 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (5 January 2015) –The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is meeting in Geneva from 12-30 January to review children’s rights in the following countries: Cambodia, Dominican Republic , Turkmenistan, Sweden, Mauritius, Gambia, Tanzania, ... More >>
OHCHR Press Briefing Note - Bahrain
Wednesday, 31 December 2014, 1:17 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
We are seriously concerned at the arrest of Sheikh Ali Salman, the leader of Bahrain’s main opposition movement, Al Wefaq, as well as the continuing harassment and imprisonment of individuals exercising their rights to freedom of opinion and expression in the ... More >>
UN experts urge Bahrain to drop women activists' charges
Tuesday, 30 December 2014, 4:11 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (29 December 2014) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts* has urged the government of Bahrain to drop charges against three women human rights activists exercising their rights to free expression and free association. ... More >>
Systemic assault on dissent and the media in Belarus
Tuesday, 30 December 2014, 11:18 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (24 December 2014) – As the year draws to an end, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklós Haraszti, deplores that there is no sign of improvement in the human rights situation in Belarus. More >>
“Students must never be targets of violence”
Saturday, 20 December 2014, 11:56 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (17 December 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, deplores and condemns in the strongest terms the acts of terror that claimed an immense number of innocent children’s lives in Peshawar, ... More >>
Peshawar attack: UN Child Rights Committee condemns massacre
Friday, 19 December 2014, 4:20 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (17 December 2014) – Statement by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on the terrorist attack yesterday on a school in Peshawar, Pakistan: “We condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the cold-blooded murder of more than 140 ... More >>
Pakistan school killings
Friday, 19 December 2014, 4:04 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (16 December 2014) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned what he described as “an utterly despicable and incomprehensibly vicious attack on defenceless children” at a co-educational school ... More >>
Israel must curb protestor fatalities in Palestine
Saturday, 13 December 2014, 11:56 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Zeid says Israel must take action to curb rise in protest fatalities in Occupied Palestinian Territory More >>
“If the US tortures, why can’t we do it?”
Friday, 12 December 2014, 1:36 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
“If the US tortures, why can’t we do it?” – UN expert says moral high ground must be recovered More >>
