10 December 2013 Minister Samir Dilou, Minister of Human Rights and Transitional Justice, Ambassador Anderazak Kilani, (PM of Tunisia), SG Marc Thomson, (APT) Distinguished representatives, ladies and...

GENEVA (9 December 2013) – A delegation from the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) is in Cambodia from 9 to 13 December to assess whether the situation of prisoners has...

Twenty years ago, a historic document was adopted in Vienna. It crystallized the principle that human rights are universal, and committed States to the promotion and protection of all human rights for...

KABUL/GENEVA (8 December 2013) – Afghan authorities registered more reports of violence against women under the Law on the Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW law) over the past year, but...

GENEVA (9 December 2013) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Anand Grover, and the World Medical Association (WMA) urged today the Turkish Grand National Assembly (Meclis) to...

GENEVA (9 December 2013) – Two United Nations human rights experts have urged the Government of Bangladesh to halt the execution of Abdul Quader Mollah, who was sentenced to death on 17 September by...

GENEVA (9 December 2013) – A group of United Nations independent experts today called on the Government of Iraq to establish the fate and whereabouts of seven residents of Camp Ashraf, who were...

GENEVA (9 December 2013) – The United Nations Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice will undertake its first visit to the People’s Republic of China from 12 to 19...

GENEVA (9 December 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, will visit Belize from 12 to 16 December 2013 to examine the situation of trafficking of...

9 December 2013 Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, intended to be with you for this book launch. However, she has to be with Mandela, for the last...