Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 29 January 2013 1) Egypt The High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will put out a press...

GENEVA (29 January 2013) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed alarm on Tuesday at the spreading violence and increasing number of deaths in Egypt, and urged all parties to...

​ Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I will now present my report pursuant to Council decision OM/7/1 of 29 January 2013, entitled “the non-cooperation of a State under Review with the Universal...

28 January 2013 Ladies and Gentlemen, I undertook a visit to Spain from 21 to 28 January 2013, which is the first visit of a United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial...

MADRID / GENEVA (28 January 2013) - United Nations Special Rapporteur Mutuma Ruteere today called on the Spanish authorities at national, regional, provincial and local levels to make a priority the...

GENEVA (25 January 2013) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday welcomed the report of the Verma Committee as a groundbreaking basis for action against violence against...

GENEVA (27 January 2013) – “Today is the day to remember that 70 years ago millions of Jewish men, women and children, as well as Roma, Slavs, disabled people, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses...

Geneva (25 January 2013) - A group of United Nations independent experts on Iran, peaceful assembly and of association, extrajudicial executions, torture and minorities today urged the Iranian...