28 December 2008 GENEVA (OHCHR) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed her grave concern and distress at the enormous loss of life in the escalating violence in Gaza. While...

27 December 2008 The Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip represent s evere and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the...

23 December 2008 GENEVA - The Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, Walter Kälin, has expressed his increasing concern for Sri...

22 December 2008 Geneva – Four independent UN experts* welcome the announcement by President-elect Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center and to strengthen the fight against torture...

22 December 2008 GENEVA -- “The severe crisis affecting Zimbabwe is ravaging the country with alarming speed. The government and the international community must do more to rebuild the health system...

19 December 2008 The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), released a report Friday on its investigations into a series of disappearances that occurred in Nepal’s Bardiya...

19 December 2008 GENEVA -- The Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances welcomes the report on Conflict-related Disappearances in Bardiya District, presented today by the United Nations...

18 December 2008 Over the last number of years, the international community has paid much attention to the economic dimension of migration and to the links between migration and development, but it...

18 December 2008 Today we are mark International Migrants Day, a week after we commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The close proximity of these...