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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 >>
Navi Pillay At a Press Conference During Her Kabul Visit
Friday, 20 September 2013, 4:24 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Opening Remarks By UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Navi Pillay At a Press Conference During Her Visit to Afghanistan More >>
Enforced Disappearances: UN Experts Official Visit to Spain
Friday, 20 September 2013, 4:21 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (19 September 2013) – The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances* will visit Spain from 23 to 30 September 2013. More >>
Rights Expert Urges UN To Adopt Decisive Peace-Making Role
Friday, 20 September 2013, 2:41 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly To Adopt a More Decisive Role In Peace-Making More >>
Moldova: UN expert to assess human rights issues
Saturday, 7 September 2013, 1:37 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA / CHISINAU (6 September 2013) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Magdalena Sepúlveda will undertake an official visit to the Republic of Moldova from 9 to 13 September 2013 to gather first-hand information on the living conditions of people ... More >>
Cécile Pouilly On Events In Occupied Palestinian Territory
Wednesday, 28 August 2013, 3:38 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
We are concerned about the forced eviction and forcible transfer of Palestinians in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as a result of a series of demolitions carried out by Israeli authorities in at least six different locations since 19 August ... More >>
UN Commission On DPRK Human Rights Situation Completing Work
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 3:43 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
SEOUL, August 26 -- A UN inquiry into human rights in North Korea on Tuesday completes a 10-day mission to Seoul, half of it devoted to often dramatic public hearings in which more than 40 witnesses – some of them recently arrived from the North -- ... More >>
UK: UN Rights Expert to Assess Housing Issues
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 3:28 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UK: UN Rights Expert to Assess Housing Issues GENEVA / LONDON (26 August 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on housing, Raquel Rolnik, will visit the United Kingdom from 29 August to 11 September 2013 to assess policies and programmes put ... More >>
UN Childrens Committee Appalled By Syrian Chemical Attack
Tuesday, 27 August 2013, 3:22 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN Committee On the Rights of the Child Appalled By Killing of Syrian Children In Alleged Chemical Attack More >>
