Following is a statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust...

The Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session on “The Support of the Human Rights Council to the Recovery Process in Haiti after the Earthquake of January 12, 2010: a Human Rights Approach” on...

The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon continued its discussion on a draft declaration on human rights education and training, as mandated to it by the Human Rights Council...

Hears from NGOs on United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, Egypt, Botswana and Panama, and from the National Human Rights Institution of the Netherlands The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination...

22 January 2010 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the initial report of Liechtenstein on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Optional Protocol to the...

GENEVA (22 JANUARY 2010) - A joint OHCHR-UNHCR protection team is scheduled to arrive in Port-au-Prince today from the Dominican Republic. The five-member team is led by OHCHR’s former director of...

GENEVA (22 January 2010) - The UN Special Rapporteur on health, Anand Grover, warned Friday that the Anti-Homosexuality Bill being considered by the Ugandan Parliament is “not only a violation of the...

GENEVA (21 January 2010) – The UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, including its causes and consequences, Ms. Gulnara Shahinian, will visit Ecuador from 25 January to 1 February...

DELHI (21 January 2010) – UN Special Rapporteur Okechukwu Ibeanu acknowledged Thursday the progress achieved in India’s recycling sector, but warned that “a number of serious concerns remain to be...

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has considered the sixth periodic report of Malawi on how that country implements the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination...