MORNING 26 September 2013 The Human Rights Council this morning held a general debate on technical assistance and capacity-building. The Council took up its agenda item on technical assistance and...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 26 September 2013 Committee to Consider Situation in Republic of Moldova, Colombia, Benin, Andorra, Cambodia, Tajikistan and Seychelles The Committee on the Elimination of...

United Nations Headquarters, New York, 26 September 2013 Excellencies, Distinguished friends, When I became High Commissioner, five years ago, there was almost no discussion at the UN of human rights...

NEW YORK, 26 September. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay today took part in a groundbreaking ministerial meeting on violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay...

AFTERNOON 26 September 2013 The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted 15 texts in which it extended for three years the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, the...

(Second Anniversary of the Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations of States, 28 September 2013) GENEVA (26 September 2013) – A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged...

GENEVA (25 September 2013) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya P. Subedi, today stressed that the key remaining challenge for the electoral...

GENEVA (25 September 2013) – United Nations transitional justice expert Pablo de Greiff will visit Uruguay from 30 September to 4 October 2013 to assess the measures adopted by the authorities in...

25 September 2013 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today completed its consideration of the initial reports of Paraguay on how the country was implementing the Optional Protocol to the...