GENEVA (2 August 2011) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday warned Syrian authorities that the world is bearing witness to the grave violence being perpetrated against the...

30 April 2003 The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, is appalled by the latest suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, which resulted in three people being killed and some...

CAT 30th session 30 April 2003 Morning Government Delegation Queried on Implementation of Legal Reforms The Committee against Torture began its review this morning of a second periodic report of...

CAT 30th session 30 April 2003 Afternoon The Committee against Torture met briefly in public session this afternoon to discuss a Working Group paper on guidelines for the operation of the recently...

CAT 30th session 29 April 2003 Morning Government Delegation Absent, Experts Raise Questions About Independence of Judiciary, Reports of Maltreatment by Police The Committee against Torture began its...

29 April 2003 The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iulia Motoc, has welcomed the decision of the Government of the Democratic Republic of...

CAT 30th session 29 April 2003 Afternoon The Committee against Torture this afternoon discussed UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's reform proposals for the human rights treaty bodies which were created...