Geneva, 25 February 2011 Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I commend the initiative of this Council to hold a special session on the...

عربي | English | Français GENEVA (24 February 2011)– Emerging from decades of “denial of dignity”, Tunisians have high expectations that the country’s institutions will dramatically transform, and...

GENEVA (23 February 2011) – A new report* released by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, highlights a continuous pattern of serious human rights violations since the presidential...

Berlin, 24 February 2011 Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen, Before I begin to address you, I would like to say I am particularly pleased to be here. I stood here as the President of the Rwanda...

GENEVA (22 February 2011) – UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Tuesday called for immediate cessation of the grave human rights violations committed by Libyan authorities and urged an independent...

GENEVA (21 February 2011) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday expressed deep concern at the harsh sentencing of Vasil Parfyankou in the first of dozens of trials against...

National Human Rights Protection Systems: the first ports of Call St. Petersburg , 18 February 2011 Excellencies, Distinguished Representatives, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am grateful for this...

GENEVA (18 February 2011) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday condemned as illegal and excessively heavy-handed the response of a number of governments in the Middle East and North...

Русский 17 February 2011 Good afternoon and thank you for coming. This is my first visit to the Russian Federation as High Commissioner for Human Rights. Obviously, after spending just four days in...