GENEVA - Three independent United Nations experts expressed their serious concern over reports of detainees being subjected to torture and harsh interrogations to obtain confessions which are being...

GENEVA – “I deplore the ongoing persecution of a democratically elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, for almost a quarter of a century. I am seriously disturbed by her arbitrary detention and the basis...

12 August 2009 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined fifth and sixth periodic report of Azerbaijan on its implementation of the provisions of the...

Summary Guaranteeing informed consent is fundamental to achieving the enjoyment of the right to health through practices, policies and research that are respectful of autonomy, self-determination and...

GENEVA – The proposed ‘Special Law against Media Crimes’ in Venezuela, presented by the Attorney-General to the National Assembly, “would involve serious violations of the right to freedom of opinion...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 11 August 2009 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined sixteenth to nineteenth periodic reports of...

9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific 11 August 2009 (Bali, Indonesia) Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Members of civil society, Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of the...

GENEVA – Four independent United Nations human rights experts today deplored the confinement of Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months of house arrest, and reiterated their call for her immediate and...

Monday, 10 August 2009, 10h00 Palais des Nations, Room XX Mr. President of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Distinguished Experts, Ladies and Gentlemen, It gives me great pleasure to open the...