Human Rights Council 26th Session Item 10 Geneva, 25 June, 2014 Mr. President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, My statement will cover a number of topics, in response to the Council’s requests...

GENEVA (25 June 2014) – United Nations Special Rapporteurs on torture and the right to health today urged the Parliament of Israel not to amend the Prisons Act to authorize the force-feeding and...

Human Rights Council MORNING 25 June 2014 The Human Rights Council this morning held its annual thematic discussion on technical cooperation, focusing on technical cooperation and capacity-building in...

GENEVA (25 June 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced Wednesday that three distinguished experts have agreed to advise and support the team set up to conduct a...

Every day, in prisons, police stations and places of detention both official and secret, women, men and children are deliberately and atrociously tortured. They are made to suffer pain and humiliation...

BUJUMBURA/GENEVA/NEW YORK (25 June 2014) – The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ivan Simonovic, is visiting Burundi from 25 to 27 June to assess the human rights situation...

PHNOM PENH/GENEVA (25 June 2014) – The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia, Professor Surya P. Subedi, on Tuesday ended his 11th fact-finding mission to Cambodia, noting...

Human Rights Council 26th Session High-level Panel Discussion on Human Rights Mainstreaming Geneva, 25 June 2014 10.00-13.00, Room XX Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council...

GENEVA (25 June 2014) – Three UN experts* on the human rights to water and sanitation, adequate housing, and extreme poverty and human rights expressed concern Wednesday about reports of widespread...

KHARTOUM/GENEVA (25 June 2014) – The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in the Sudan, Mashood Adebayo Baderin, at the end of his 5th mission to the Sudan, urged the Government to...