GENEVA (26 January 2011) – “The horrors of the Holocaust, perpetrated with such systemic cruelty on such a large population over so many years, remain as painful to fathom today as ever. This is a day...

GENEVA (26 January 2011) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced Wednesday that a team of top-level specialists from her Office (OHCHR) is currently assembling in Tunisia...

26 January 2011 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today examined the combined second and third periodic report of Belarus on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on...

26 January 2011 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has considered the combined fifth to seventh periodic report of Sri Lanka on how that country is implementing the...

Spokesperson: Rupert Colville 25 January 2011 Two separate investigations by MONUSCO and UNJHRO (the United Nations Joint Human Rights Office) to villages in North Kivu and South Kivu have shed light...

25 January 2011 GENEVA – In the first such event of its kind in Switzerland and perhaps in all of Europe, a large ribbon has been mounted on the façade of the lakefront UN human rights office this...

25 January 2011 The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has considered the combined sixth and seventh periodic report of Bangladesh on how that country implements the...

25 January 2011 Ban Ki-moon Says Special Procedures Allow Human Rights Council to Shine Light on Abuses Everywhere United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the Human Rights Council this...

24 January 2011 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today examined the fourth periodic report of Denmark on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the...