25 January 2011 Ban Ki-moon Says Special Procedures Allow Human Rights Council to Shine Light on Abuses Everywhere United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the Human Rights Council this...

24 January 2011 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today examined the fourth periodic report of Denmark on how that country is implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the...

GENEVA (24 January 2011) – The new membership of the UN Committee of Independent Experts* will meet for the first time in Geneva from 24-28 January to define its plan of action and establish contacts...

24 January 2011 Discusses Situation of the Rights of Women in Bangladesh, Belarus and Sri Lanka The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women this afternoon met with non...

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 field operations, and includes...

Spokesperson: Rupert Colville 21 January 2011 According to the UNOCI’s Human Rights Division, as of 13 January, there have been 13 new killings, bringing the total number of deaths to at least 260...

GENEVA (21 January 2011) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Friday she is deeply concerned about the fate of a group of around 40 migrants, who have been missing since they...

NEW DELHI, 21 January 2011 – From 10 to 21 January 2011, I carried out a fact-finding mission to assess the situation of human rights defenders in India, and traveled to New Delhi, Bhubaneshwar...

GENEVA (21 January 2011) – The economic and financial crisis in Ireland poses a disproportionate threat to vulnerable segments in the country who benefitted little from its economic boom in the first...

GENEVA (21 January 2011) – UN Special Rapporteur Jorge A. Bustamante will undertake an official visit to South Africa from 24 January to 1 February 2011, in what will be the first mission ever to the...