Council Hears Address by Minister of Plantation Industries and Special Envoy of the President of Sri Lanka for Human Rights The Human Rights Council in a midday meeting today concluded its general...

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 30 May 2011 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a clustered interactive dialogue with Christof Heyns, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or...

Madam Chairperson, Distinguished members of the Committee Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my pleasure to welcome you to the fifty-seventh session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child. In particular...

27 May 2011 The Committee against Torture this morning considered the issue of follow-up to concluding observations and recommendations and individual communications, hearing presentations by...

“Ladies and Gentlemen, I undertook a country mission to Hungary from 23 to 27 May 2011. During my visit, I travelled to Ózd, Gyöngyöspata, Pécs and Mohács. I held meetings with representatives of the...

GENEVA (27 May 2011) – United Nations Independent Expert Mohamed Chande Othman will be conducting his third mission to the country from 31 May to 8 June 2011 to gather first-hand information of the...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva 27 May 2011 (1)Yemen The dangerous escalation of violence in Yemen over the past few days is very alarming...

GENEVA / Phnom Penh (26 May 2011) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Surya Prasad Subedi, will be undertaking his fifth official visit to the country...

GENEVA (26 May 2011) – At the conclusion of his official follow-up visit to Tunisia from 22 to 26 May the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Martin Scheinin, gave...

Tunisia: “No impunity for human rights violations committed in the name of counter-terrorism” – UN expert TUNIS / GENEVA (26 May 2011) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights and...