MORNING 25 February 2011 The Human Rights Council this morning opened a Special Session on “The situation of human rights in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya”. Navi Pillay, High Commissioner for Human...

25 February 2011 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the initial report of Serbia on its implementation of the provisions of the International Convention on the...

AFTERNOON 25 February 2011 Delegation of Libya addresses the Council, saying the will of the people is invincible The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted a resolution on the human rights...

Meeting with Moldova , Amb. Tatiana Lapicus and Mr. Serghei Ostaf (25 February) The Ambassador introduced the Moldovan candidate Mr. Serghei Ostaf for the mandate of SR on Freedom of association. She...

عربي | English | Français GENEVA (24 February 2011)– Emerging from decades of “denial of dignity”, Tunisians have high expectations that the country’s institutions will dramatically transform, and...

PHNOM PENH / GENEVA (24 February 2011) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya Subedi, expressed his concern about the current use of the crime of incitement...

GENEVA (23 February 2011) – A new report* released by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, highlights a continuous pattern of serious human rights violations since the presidential...

24 February 2011 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the eighteenth through twentieth periodic reports of Spain on its implementation of the provisions of the...

KUALA LUMPUR / GENEVA (24 February 2011) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, warned Thursday that the disquieting situation of human rights in...