18 August 2009 Following is a statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on the occasion of the first World Humanitarian Day which will be commemorated on 19 August...

GENEVA -- The United Nations Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty, Magdalena Sepúlveda, will visit Zambia from 20 to 28 August 2009 at the invitation of the Government. "I want to...

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined fifteenth to twentieth periodic report of the Philippines on its implementation of the provisions of the...

Following is the statement delivered by Sergei Ordzhonikidze, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, at a ceremony today at the Parc des Bastions in Geneva to celebrate the first...

17 August 2009 GENEVA -- Mads Andenas, Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Oslo and former Director of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has joined the United Nations Working Group...