GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday deplored the killings and other acts of violence committed by Congolese security forces and supporters of political parties in...

1 December 2011 GENEVA – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay will today host a press conference in Geneva to introduce the Human Rights Day campaign for 2011 – a celebration of the...

GENEVA / CAMBERA (1st December 2011) – United Nations Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Joy Ngozi Ezeilo, yesterday urged the Australian Government to devote...

Albanian version GENEVA (02 December 2011) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, will visit Albania from 5 to 13 December 2011 to assess the...

The United Nations marks 2 December each year as the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, to remind the international community that slavery is not a practice that has been banished, but...

Thank you for being here. 2011 has been an extraordinary year for human rights. A year when a single word, embodying the thwarted quest of a single impoverished young man in a remote province of...

GENEVA – “Slavery is not history,” reminded once again the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery its causes and consequences, Gulnara Shahinian. “Despite significant...