GENEVA (17 January 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday strongly condemned the repeated obstruction of convoys trying to bring supplies to a besieged population of some...

GENEVA (January 2014) – The UN Special Rapporteur on transitional justice* Pablo de Greiff will visit Spain from 21 January to 3 February 2014 to assess the measures adopted by the authorities...

GENEVA (16 January 2014) – As reports continued to emerge of a succession of mass executions in northern Syria, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday warned armed opposition...

GENEVA (16 January 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai will visit Rwanda from 20 to 27 January 2014 to assess in depth to what extent the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of...

Phnom Penh, 16 January 2014 I am about to complete my tenth human rights fact-finding mission to the Kingdom of Cambodia, the first since the National Assembly elections took place in July 2013. What...

GENEVA (15 January 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteur Gabriela Knaul will carry out an official visit to the State of Qatar from 19 to 26 January 2014, to assess the independence of judges...

GENEVA (15 January 2014) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Wednesday urged Heads of State attending a major summit in Africa’s Great Lakes Region to ensure that people...

GENEVA (14 January 2014) – The human rights situation remains extremely volatile in the Central African Republic (CAR), the UN Human Rights Office said Tuesday as it released its findings on an...

GENEVA (14 January 2014) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed her alarm at a “draconian” new law in Nigeria that criminalizes same-sex unions, saying it...