HANOI / GENEVA (19 April 2010) – The mission to Viet Nam by UN independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepulveda, has been postponed due to extended airspace restrictions...

HANOI / GENEVA (19 April 2010) – The mission to Viet Nam by UN independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepulveda, has been postponed due to extended airspace restrictions...

Summary The present report is submitted in response to Human Rights Council resolution 8/7 in which the Council requested the High Commissioner for Human Rights to convene a two-day consultation on...

GENEVA (16 April 2010) – The UN Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepúlveda, will visit Vietnam from 20-29 April to collect first-hand information on the situation of...

GENEVA (16 April 2010) – The UN Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepúlveda, will visit Vietnam from 20-29 April to collect first-hand information on the situation of...

GENEVA (16 April 2010) –The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday urged the de-facto Gaza authorities not to carry out further executions and to abolish the use of the death...

ROVANIEMI, FINLAND (16 April 2010) – The UN Special Rapporteur on indigenous people, James Anaya, welcomed the agreement in principle of the European Nordic governments to restart negotiations on a...

LJUBLJANA / GENEVA (15 April 2010) – The UN independent expert on human rights, water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, will visit Slovenia from 19-23 April 2010 to collect first hand...

LJUBLJANA / GENEVA (15 April 2010) – The UN independent expert on human rights, water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, will visit Slovenia from 19-23 April 2010 to collect first hand...

GENEVA -- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will on Saturday begin a ten-day visit to the six Member States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), in an unprecedented effort by the...