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UN Human Rights Committee to review Africa, Asia
Friday, 1 March 2019, 9:50 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors implementation by States of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), will meet in Geneva from March 4 to 29 to review Angola, Eritrea, Estonia, Niger, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ... More >>
UN Human Rights Chief calls for courage and vision
Tuesday, 26 February 2019, 9:05 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN Human Rights Chief calls for courage and vision in advancing rights for all More >>
Bachelet condemns violence at Venezuelan borders
Monday, 25 February 2019, 9:29 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Sunday condemned violent scenes at various points along Venezuela’s borders with Colombia and Brazil, as well as within Venezuela itself. In particular, she condemned the excessive use of ... More >>
Briefing Notes: Nicaragua, Egypt and Mexico
Saturday, 23 February 2019, 12:30 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Subjects: 1) Nicaragua The High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is issuing a press release today warning that if the arrests and convictions of people ... More >>
Concern about criminalization of dissent in Nicaragua
Saturday, 23 February 2019, 12:28 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned Friday that if the arrests and convictions of people expressing dissenting opinions continue in Nicaragua, current efforts to start dialogue to solve the political and social unrest in the ... More >>
UN Human Rights Office and African Court sign agreement
Monday, 11 February 2019, 9:28 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN Human Rights Office and African Court on Human and People’s Rights sign cooperation agreement More >>
Bachelet on criminalising right to freedom of religion
Friday, 8 February 2019, 9:39 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Comment by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on criminalising the right to freedom of religion for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia More >>
UN Child Rights Committee issues findings
Friday, 8 February 2019, 9:37 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN Child Rights Committee issues findings on Bahrain, Belgium, Czechia, Guinea, Italy, Japan, and Syrian Arab Republic More >>
UN Human Rights Chief on International Day on Holocaust
Saturday, 26 January 2019, 10:59 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
“On this day in 1945, the largest Nazi extermination camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated. Some 7,500 people were freed that day; thousands more had been forced to march across the freezing landscape, and over the preceding three years, it is ... More >>
Bachelet condemns killings, urges restraint
Saturday, 26 January 2019, 10:28 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Friday condemned, and called for effective investigations into, the violence that has led to a number of deaths and injuries during this week’s protests in Venezuela. She urged all ... More >>
BRIEFING NOTES - Zimbabwe, Montenegro
Saturday, 19 January 2019, 10:57 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 18 January 2019 Subject: 1) Zimbabwe We are deeply troubled by the socio-economic crisis that is unfolding in Zimbabwe and the repression of large scale protests in ... More >>
Briefing Notes: Bangladesh, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates
Saturday, 5 January 2019, 11:38 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 4 January 2019 Subject: (1) Bangladesh We are concerned about violence and alleged human rights violations in Bangladesh before, during and after the recent ... More >>
Migrants crossing Libya subjected to “unimaginable horror"
Friday, 21 December 2018, 12:02 pm | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Migrants and refugees are being subjected to “unimaginable horrors” from the moment they enter Libya, throughout their stay in the country and – if they make it that far -- during their subsequent attempts to cross the Mediterranean sea, according ... More >>
States must ensure all migrants enjoy all human rights - UN
Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 10:31 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
The Global Compact on Migration is an important starting point for improved global migration governance that puts migrants and their human rights at the centre, UN human rights experts said on the occasion of today’s International Migrants Day, ... More >>
UN Human Rights Chief welcomes adoption of UN Declaration
Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 10:29 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Monday welcomed the adoption by the General Assembly of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and other people working in rural areas. “Globally, peasants feed the world but ... More >>
Bachelet pays tribute to Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva
Tuesday, 11 December 2018, 10:20 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
“I have learned with sadness that the human rights community has lost one of its greatest human rights defenders, Ms. Lyudmila Mikhaylovna Alexeyeva. She was a Russian historian, leading human rights activist and founding member of the Moscow Helisinki ... More >>
30 Articles of the UDHR - Article 30: Rights are Inalienable
Monday, 10 December 2018, 10:01 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Just two weeks in New Zealand and a win at Te Kuiti – as the sign says at the town’s entrance: “Shearing Capital of the World. More >>
30 Articles of the UDHR - Article 25
Wednesday, 5 December 2018, 9:58 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
Article 25: Right to Adequate Standard of Living More >>
30 Articles of the UDHR - Article 24: Right to Rest
Tuesday, 4 December 2018, 9:53 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
In 19 crisp words, Article 24 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights presents the flip side of the right to work articulated in Article 23 – the right not to be over-worked. It enshrines the right to limited working hours and paid holidays, ... More >>
30 Articles of the UDHR - Article 23: Right to Work
Monday, 3 December 2018, 10:14 am | United Nations Human Rights Commissioner
As First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt told striking workers in 1941 that she had always “felt it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labour organization, because the ideals of the organized labour movement are high ... More >>
