Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva 5 July 2011 OHCHR has recently been receiving reports of a crackdown by the Malaysian authorities...

Port-au-Prince, 5 July 2011 Good afternoon. Thank you for attending this press briefing. I would like to thank the Haitian authorities for their warm welcome and for the cooperation extended during my...

GENEVA ( 4 July 2011) – The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID)* has started reviewing more than 350 cases of enforced disappearances, including recently...

GENEVA (1 July 2011) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, will visit Namibia from 4-11 July 2011 to asses the situation of the...

1 July 2011 GENEVA – The United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung-wha Kang, begins tomorrow an official five-day mission to Haiti. During the mission, from 2 to 6 July 2011, Ms...

GENEVA (1 July 2011) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...

(1) Yemen The OHCHR mission to Yemen is going well so far with cooperation from the Government which has allowed our team full access. The team met the Vice-President in Sana’a as well as opposition...

GINEBRA (1 de Julio de 2011) – La Relatora Especial sobre la independencia de los magistrados y abogados de las Naciones Unidas, Gabriela Knaul, calificó de posible atentado a la independencia del...

26 September 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the initial report of Singapore on how that country was implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the...