17 December 2013 Key Message: Belize should avoid repressive immigration policy that compounds the phenomenon of human trafficking and undermines efforts at combating and preventing trafficking in...

16 December 2013 Madame Deputy High Commissioner, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, It has been a great privilege to me personally to serve the Human Rights Council as its President this past year...

GENEVA (16 December 2013) - The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) has urged Cambodia to set up an independent national body to monitor the treatment of people in detention, in...

GENEVA (16 December 2013) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged the Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) to increase its efforts in the investigations...

Baudelaire Ndong Ella of Gabon Appointed as President-elect Geneva, 16 December 2013 -- The Human Rights Council this afternoon elected its new bureau for 2014 at an organizational meeting appointing...

GENEVA (13 December 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, started today a fact-finding mission to Amsterdam...

GENEVA (13 December 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, started today a fact-finding mission to Amsterdam...

Bahamas has legal and policy underpinnings for combating trafficking in persons however, it needs to urgently and robustly build capacity and devote resources for victim identification, protection and...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date : 13 December 2013 Subjects: Central African Republic Ukraine 1) Central African Republic Although...