Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Rupert Colville Location : Geneva Subjects : Libya and Bahrain 30 August 2011 (1) Libya We are extremely alarmed by the emerging reports of...

GENEVA (30 August 2011) – The United Nations Independent Expert in the field of cultural rights, Farida Shaheed, will launch her first official mission to Morocco from 5 to 16 September 2011, to...

GENEVA (29 August 2011) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt, will visit the Republic of Moldova from 1 to 8 September 2011, in what is the first...

(Statement by the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or involuntary Disappearances to mark the first UN International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances - 30 August 2011) GENEVA (30...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Subject: South Sudan 26 August 2011 Attacks in Jonglei State The High Commissioner for Human Rights is very...

GENEVA (26 August 2011) – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention* will begin its 61st session on Monday 29 August to deliberate on 43 confidential cases concerning 22 different...

By Tomas Ojea Quintana, 25 August 2011, Yangon International Airport, Myanmar I have just concluded my five-day mission to Myanmar - my fourth visit to the country since I was appointed in March 2008...

25 August 2011 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has concluded consideration of the fifteenth through twentieth reports of Malta on its implementation of the provisions of the...

YANGON (25 August 2011) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, urged the Government to intensify its efforts to implement its own...

GENEVA (25 August 2011) – The United Nations Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti, Michel Forst, will carry out a mission to the country from 29 August to 3 September 2011 to...