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Japan: “Special Secrets Bill threatens transparency”

Saturday, 23 November 2013, 2:11 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

GENEVA (22 November 2013) – Two United Nations independent human rights experts today expressed serious concern about the draft Special Secrets Bill, which establishes grounds and procedures for the classification of information held by the Japanese ... More >>

Time to strengthen UN role to end impunity – UN experts

Saturday, 23 November 2013, 2:04 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

GENEVA (22 November 2013) – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts* today called on the UN to adopt a more central role in the fight against impunity, and urged Member States to give more support to and strengthen on-going ... More >>

Ghana’s criminal justice and mental health practices

Saturday, 16 November 2013, 4:12 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

Ghana’s criminal justice and mental health practices need critical attention to be more humane More >>

Protection of internally displaced needs to be up front

Saturday, 16 November 2013, 4:03 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

“Protection of South Sudan’s internally displaced needs to be up front” – UN rights expert says More >>

DPRK: UN expert calls for justice and reconciliation

Saturday, 16 November 2013, 3:56 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

SEOUL (15 November 2013) – The time has come for us to look at issues related to North Korean human rights with a perspective that will pave the way for justice and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula, said Marzuki Darusman, the United Nations ... More >>

Warsaw UN climate talks: Time for concrete and fair funding

Saturday, 16 November 2013, 3:54 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

Warsaw UN climate talks: Time for concrete and fair funding pledges, UN expert on International Solidarity urges More >>

‘No access to sanitation’ – the big euphemism

Saturday, 16 November 2013, 3:51 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

GENEVA (19 November 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, has warned that the sanitation target set by the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) is today ... More >>

Pillay warns violence in Central African Republic may spiral

Saturday, 9 November 2013, 1:05 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

GENEVA (8 November 2013) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday warned that a deteriorating cycle of violent attacks and reprisals in the Central African Republic risks plunging the country into a new conflict. More >>

Myanmar: Support for reforms and human rights concerns

Saturday, 26 October 2013, 12:43 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

NEW YORK / GENEVA (25 October 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, made an urgent appeal to the international community to remain engaged on human rights at every step of ... More >>

Drone attacks: UN rights experts express concern

Saturday, 26 October 2013, 12:32 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

Drone attacks: UN rights experts express concern about the potential illegal use of armed drones More >>

Who is taking care of the rights of migrants?

Friday, 25 October 2013, 8:30 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

“There is no migration organization within the United Nations, and no coherent institutional framework governing migration. States retreat from binding UN-based frameworks, with preference for informal processes governing migration,” the United ... More >>

UN expert hails a decade of right to food progress

Friday, 25 October 2013, 8:11 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

In his final report to the UN General Assembly, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, today welcomed “the rights resurgence” he has seen across the world over the past decade. More >>

OHCHR Briefing Notes

Saturday, 12 October 2013, 11:23 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

Over the past two days (9-10 October), the Iraqi authorities have executed at least 42 individuals, including one woman, on terrorism charges. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has repeatedly stressed, after earlier mass executions ... More >>

First visit to Seychelles of the UN Special Rapporteur

Friday, 11 October 2013, 9:57 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

GENEVA (11 October 2013) – Education reforms and the education of vulnerable children are among the issues to be assessed in the Republic of Seychelles by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Kishore Singh, during his official ... More >>

UN experts call for a full global response to global scourge

Friday, 11 October 2013, 9:55 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

Minamata Convention on Mercury: UN experts call for a full global response to a global scourge More >>

Patterns of displacement continue to be massive in Syria

Saturday, 28 September 2013, 2:45 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

GENEVA (27 September 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs), Chaloka Beyani, urged the international community not to lose sight of the plight of millions forced into mass displacement ... More >>

Experts call on world to be guided by Maastricht Principles

Friday, 27 September 2013, 4:07 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner

A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged governments worldwide to take into account a set of guidelines on extraterritorial obligations adopted by leading specialists in international law and human rights on 28 September 2011 ... More >>

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