GENEVA (16 December 2014) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged the Dutch Government to immediately provide homeless irregular migrants in the Netherlands with emergency...

Bujumbura, 16 December 2014 Ladies and Gentlemen, I had the opportunity to visit Burundi at a particularly timely moment, when the establishment of the long-awaited Truth and Reconciliation Commission...

GENEVA (16 December 2014) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday condemned what he described as “an utterly despicable and incomprehensibly vicious attack on...

BUJUMBURA / GENEVA (16 December 2014) – “The promise of truth and justice still needs to be fulfilled in Burundi fourteen years after the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement,” United Nations...

GENEVA (15 December 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday highlighted the “dreadful” situation of civilians in South Sudan, who are victims of targeted killings...

Ladies and gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to launch the 8th monthly report of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine. The day of my arrival in Ukraine; 11 December, was the first...