GENEVA (31 December 2010) – UN human rights experts* are deeply concerned that, according to credible sources, enforced or involuntary disappearances, arbitrary detentions, extrajudicial, summary or...

GENEVA (31 December 2010) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has written individually to a group of leaders in key authority positions in Côte d’Ivoire to remind them in the...

Geneva, 23 December 2010 Mr. Vice President, Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very honoured and delighted to address this assembly on behalf...

Human Rights Council MORNING 23 December 2010 The Human Rights Council this morning opened a Special Session on “The situation of human rights in Côte d’Ivoire since the elections on 28 November 2010”...

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 23 December 2010 The Human Rights Council concluded its fourteenth Special Session today after adopting a resolution in which it strongly condemned human rights...

23 December 2010 Mr. Vice President, Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very honoured and delighted to address this assembly on behalf of the...

23 December 2010 BEIJING (23 December 2010) – “China has made remarkable economic and social progress over the past three decades, lifting several hundred millions out of poverty, and food security...

BUCHAREST (17 December 2010)– The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Ms. Gulnara Shahinian, concluding her visit to Romania, said that “the Government of Romania has demonstrated...