BACKGROUND RELEASE 26 May 2011 The Human Rights Council will hold its seventeenth regular session from 30 May to 17 June at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. On the morning of Monday, 30 May, the...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 26 May 2011 Situation of Children’s’ Rights in the Czech Republic, Bahrain, Cambodia, Egypt, Cuba, Finland and Costa Rica to be reviewed The Committee on the Rights of the Child...

GENEVA (26 May 2011) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday welcomed the arrest by the Serbian authorities of Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb military leader sought by the...

Canberra, 25 May 2011 Good afternoon, It has been a great pleasure to visit Australia, and I wish I could have stayed more than six days, to see more of the country, meet more Australians and immerse...

GENEVA (24 May 2011) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday called on both sides of the conflict in the disputed Sudanese region of Abyei to immediately cease hostilities and...

TUNIS (21 May 2011) - In conclusion of his visit to Tunisia undertaken on invitation of the Government from 15 to 22 May 2011, Juan Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other forms of...

TUNIS / GENEVA (24 May 2011) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez, urged Tunisia’s interim Government to seize the opportunity of the current transition to embark without...