Madam Chairperson, Distinguished members of the Committee, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my honour and great pleasure to greet you at the beginning of the forty-ninth session of the Committee on the...

Human Rights Committee 11 July 2011 Adopts Agenda and Programme of Work, Meets with Non-Governmental Organizations The Human Rights Committee this morning opened its one-hundredth second session...

GENEVA - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Sunday expressed deep concern at the Senegalese Government’s announcement that Hissène Habré would be extradited to Chad, where he has...

New York (8 July 2011) – As US troops prepare to withdraw from Iraq, UN experts are urging the Iraqi government to institute a law to regulate the activities of private military contractors. “While US...

MEXICO CITY (8 July 2011) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, deeply regrets the execution in the United States of Mexican national Humberto Leal García, after a last...

GENEVA (8 July 2011) – During its 94th session, which took place in Geneva from 4-8 July 2011, the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances * examined 26 reported cases...

Friday 8 July 2011 Opening Statement Good afternoon, Thank you all very much for coming. It has been a great pleasure to visit Mexico, and I wish I could have stayed longer, to see more of this...

GENEVA – The human rights record of Bulgaria is due to face the scrutiny of the United Nations Human Rights Committee for the first time in 18 years, on Wednesday, 13 July, in a meeting that will be...

GENEVA – The human rights record of Kazakhstan will for the first time face the scrutiny of the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Thursday, 14 July in a meeting that will be webcast live on the...