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Iraq: Immediate action needed to protect human rights
Wednesday, 13 August 2014, 2:11 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Iraq: “Immediate action needed to protect human rights of Yazidis in grave danger” – UN experts More >>
Ensuring right to remembrance and dignity for Roma people
Friday, 1 August 2014, 1:02 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA / NEW YORK (2 August 2014) – On the 70th anniversary of the Roma Holocaust –‘Porrajmos’ or ‘Pharrajimos’– two United Nations human rights experts urge all governments around the world to ensure the right to remembrance for the ... More >>
Kenyans rights to safe water and sanitation
Friday, 1 August 2014, 11:51 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Kenyans have rights to safe water and sanitation on paper – now it’s time to make them a reality More >>
Pillay condemns continuing attacks on civilians in Gaza
Friday, 1 August 2014, 11:09 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday strongly condemned the 30 July shelling by Israeli military forces of a UN school in Gaza sheltering people fleeing the violence, as well as other attacks on schools, hospitals, places ... More >>
UN: First-ever World Day against Trafficking in Persons
Tuesday, 29 July 2014, 11:52 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on the first-ever World Day against Trafficking in Persons, 30 July 2014 More >>
Intense fighting in eastern Ukraine “extremely alarming”
Tuesday, 29 July 2014, 9:55 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA: A total breakdown of law and order and a reign of fear and terror have been inflicted by armed groups on the population of eastern Ukraine, according to a new report issued today by the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. More >>
UN calls for a stronger response to displacement in Nigeria
Friday, 25 July 2014, 1:54 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
A forgotten tragedy – UN experts call for a stronger response to internal displacement in Nigeria More >>
UN Human Rights: Gaza / Occupied Palestinian Territory
Friday, 25 July 2014, 1:21 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Statement of the Coordination Committee of the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967(*) More >>
Pillay: Surveillance must be Subject to Independent checks
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 11:37 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Dangerous practice of digital mass surveillance must be subject to independent checks and balances - Pillay More >>
UN rights expert appeals for calm amidst violence
Thursday, 17 July 2014, 11:11 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN rights expert urges Cambodia to lift protest ban and appeals for calm amidst violence More >>
Civilians casualties in Afghanistan rise by 24 percent: 2014
Friday, 11 July 2014, 4:38 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
KABUL/GENEVA (9 July 2014) – Ground combat among parties to the armed conflict in Afghanistan surpassed improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as the leading cause of conflict-related death and injury to Afghan civilians in the first six months ... More >>
Outraged UN experts urge Egypt: overturn mass death verdict
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 10:56 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
The credibility and integrity of the Egyptian justice system has become “deeply compromised”, a group of United Nations human rights experts today said, urging the Government to impose a moratorium on the death penalty and to offer new and fair ... More >>
UN rights experts:Stop the promotion of faith-based violence
Thursday, 3 July 2014, 10:34 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
“Stop the promotion of hatred and faith-based violence” – UN rights experts urge Sri Lanka More >>
Egypt: UN Experts “outraged” at 183 death sentances
Tuesday, 1 July 2014, 12:14 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA – A group of UN human rights experts* expressed outrage after a Criminal Court in Minya, Egypt, confirmed death sentences against 183 people, in what constitutes the largest mass death sentence to be confirmed in Egypt in recent history. The experts ... More >>
Iran: Execution of juveniles breaches international law
Friday, 27 June 2014, 3:57 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed concern Thursday about the large number of executions in Iran since the beginning of this year, calling on the authorities to halt, in particular, the imminent execution of a juvenile offender. More >>
Belarus: political prisoners remain in jail – UN expert
Wednesday, 25 June 2014, 4:07 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Belarus: “Rights defender Ales Bialiatski released, but other political prisoners remain in jail” – UN expert More >>
Restrictions to religious conversion in Myanmar
Saturday, 21 June 2014, 12:33 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN rights experts raise alarm on draft bill imposing restrictions to religious conversion in Myanmar More >>
Efforts towards better responsibility are “ignoring women"
Saturday, 21 June 2014, 12:32 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (20 June 2014) – In the emerging area of corporate responsibility, disparate harm to women from business and trade policies has been largely invisible, the United Nations Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and Practice has warned ... More >>
Ukraine: Breakdown of law and order in the East
Friday, 20 June 2014, 4:40 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
New UN report on Ukraine details breakdown in law and order in the east and worrying trends in Crimea More >>
Laws on use of force by police require urgent global reform
Saturday, 14 June 2014, 3:35 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (13 June 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Christof Heyns, stressed that laws regulating the use of force –especially lethal force- by the police are in urgent need of global ... More >>
