YAOUNDÉ / GENEVA (23 July 2012) – “In Cameroon, food security indicators are on red alert despite measures taken in response to the 2008 food crisis and the increasing revenues drawn from the...

Cape Town, 22 July 2012 Ladies and Gentlemen, Colleagues and friends, I am very pleased to participate in the opening ceremony of the 30th International Congress of Psychology. The focus of this event...

GENEVA / ABIDJAN (20 July 2012) – UN Special Rapporteur Chaloka Beyani will visit Côte d'Ivoire from 23 to 31 July to examine internal displacement issues, including the current situation of persons...

CAIRO (19 July 2012) – The UN Special Committee* on Israeli Practices in the Occupied Territories expressed serious concern about the treatment of Palestinian children in detention by Israeli security...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Rupert Colville Location : Geneva Date : 19 July 2012 Subjects: (1) Syria, (2) Nepal and (3) Tunisia (1) Syria With fighting now taking...

GENEVA (20 July 2012) – United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, condemned Israel’s use of solitary confinement against...

Human Rights Committee 20 July 2012 The Human Rights Committee this afternoon continued its discussion on working methods, specifically its proposed retreat to The Hague in 2013, the forthcoming Day...