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Fact-finding visit to El Salvador
Saturday, 21 January 2012, 2:48 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA – From 23 January to 1 February 2012, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention will undertake its first official mission to El Salvador to assess the situation of deprivation of liberty in the country. More >>
No amnesty for gross human rights violations in Yemen
Saturday, 7 January 2012, 4:06 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged decision-makers in Yemen to respect the prohibition in international law against amnesties for gross human rights violations. More >>
No amnesty for gross human rights violations in Yemen
Saturday, 7 January 2012, 1:47 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged decision-makers in Yemen to respect the prohibition in international law against amnesties for gross human rights violations. More >>
China: UN Experts Denounce Secret Detention of Gao Zhisheng
Saturday, 24 December 2011, 2:39 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA – UN human rights experts* on Friday denounced the continued secret detention of Gao Zhisheng, a prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who was arrested in 2006. They expressed concern at recent news that a Beijing court has withdrawn Mr. Gao’s ... More >>
Dignity has no nationality
Sunday, 18 December 2011, 12:21 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (18 December 2011) – “Let us recall on this International Migrants Day that migrants are often the engine of innovation and growth, as positive societal change is dependent on new ideas, perspectives and experiences. Socio-economic data ... More >>
WTO defending an outdated vision of food security
Saturday, 17 December 2011, 2:32 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (16 December 2011) – “Globalization creates big winners and big losers. But where food systems are concerned, losing out means sinking into poverty and hunger. A vision of food security that deepens the divide between food-surplus and food-deficit ... More >>
France / Sale and sexual exploitation of children
Sunday, 4 December 2011, 1:04 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
France / Sale and sexual exploitation of children: towards a comprehensive and coordinated approach that guarantees the best interest of the child More >>
Statement by UNHCHR Navi Pill
Sunday, 4 December 2011, 12:24 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Statement by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay at the Human Rights Council 18th Special Session to examine the situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic Geneva, 2 December 2011 More >>
Israel and occupied Palestinian territory
Sunday, 4 December 2011, 12:15 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA (2 December 2011) – UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue, will undertake a fact-finding mission to Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory from 6 to 18 December 2011, in what will be the ... More >>
States must remove obstacles to political participation
Sunday, 4 December 2011, 12:12 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday highlighted the “unacceptable obstacles to political participation” confronting individuals with disabilities in all parts of the world, calling on States to ensure respect ... More >>
First visit to Timor-Leste by UN Special Rapporteur
Monday, 14 November 2011, 1:29 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepúlveda, will conduct an official mission to Timor-Leste from 13 to 18 November 2011 to collect first-hand information on the situation of people living ... More >>
Twenty years protecting people from arbitrary detention
Monday, 14 November 2011, 1:27 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA / PARIS – Aung San Suu Kyi, Xanana Gusmao, Carmen Julia Arias Iglesias, Manouchehr Karimzadeh, Haitham al-Maleh, Qi Dafeng, Pham Cong Canh – the list of cases investigated by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ... More >>
Statement to Human Rights Council Special Session on Syria
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 4:35 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Statement by all UN Special Procedures mandate-holders to the Human Rights Council Special Session on Syria Statement delivered on behalf of all Special Procedures mandate-holders of the United Nations Human Rights Council at the Seventeenth Special ... More >>
Pillay Statement to the Human Rights Council Special Session
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 4:21 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Statement by Ms. Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Human Rights Council 17th Special Session on “Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic” in Geneva 22 August 2011 More >>
Trade Agreements should be assessed in Light of Human Rights
Tuesday, 23 August 2011, 3:12 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Pacific countries negotiating trade agreements should seriously consider carrying out human rights impact assessments before entering into binding agreements, urged the Regional Office for the Pacific of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for ... More >>
The International Day of the World's Indigenous People
Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 1:16 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay for 9 August, to celebrate the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People. More >>
Syria must stop using violent strategies against civilians
Saturday, 6 August 2011, 1:09 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
GENEVA – A group of UN human rights experts* today warned that the scale and gravity of the violent crackdown in the Syrian Arab Republic continues unabated, and reiterated their call for an immediate end to the violent strategies adopted by the Government ... More >>
OHCHR PRESS BRIEFING NOTE - Sri Lanka and Malawi
Saturday, 30 July 2011, 4:52 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani, on behalf of Rupert Colville Location: Geneva 29 July 2011 More >>
UN Human Rights Office Works Actively to Combat Torture
Monday, 6 June 2011, 1:41 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
MEDIA RELEASE 6 June 2011 UN Human Rights Office Works Actively to Combat Torture in Pacific More >>
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay
Wednesday, 25 May 2011, 5:15 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Good afternoon, It has been a great pleasure to visit Australia, and I wish I could have stayed more than six days, to see more of the country, meet more Australians and immerse myself more fully in the wide range of human rights issues that have ... More >>
