16 September 2009 I am very pleased to be with you today on behalf of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. I would like to sincerely thank the International Movement Against all Forms...

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 15 September 2009 Special Representative if the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict presents her Annual Report The Human Rights Council this afternoon...

15 September 2009 Your Royal Highness, Ambassador Phuangketkeow, Excellencies, friends and colleagues, The proposal of Her Royal Highness Princess Bajrakitiyabha, and the Government of Thailand, to...

GENEVA (Tuesday 15 September 2009) -- The International Day of Democracy is an opportunity to take stock of the way democratic principles are applied both at the national and international levels: an...

15 September 2009 Human beings adrift at sea are not toxic cargo. From time immemorial, human instinct was to save lives endangered at sea. Instead, today, on the assumption that boats in distress...

GENEVA (14 September 2009) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Monday that discrimination remains a “scourge” that affects every country, and that combating it had become one of...