5 August 2011 Statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay for 9 August, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People “As we celebrate the International Day...

Kinshasa, 5 August 2011 Members of the media, Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to be with you this morning, here in Kinshasa, to share the preliminary findings of my official fact-finding visit to...

KINSHASA (5 August 2011) – The United Nations Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina, urged the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to undertake an...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 4 August 2011 Reviews Reports of Paraguay, the Maldives, Kenya, Georgia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Albania, the United Kingdom and Malta The Committee on the Elimination of...

BACKGROUND RELEASE 4 August 2011 The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will hold its seventh session from 8 to 12 August 2011 in Room XX of the Palais des Nations. The Committee, which is...

GENEVA (3 August 2011) – The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, appealed to the Iranian government to extend its...