Statement Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Open Debate on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts Security Council, New York, 19 August 2013   Mr President...

Geneva/Kinshasa, 19 August 2013 – The United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Flavia Pansieri, will visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 22 to 28 August 2013. During her...

19 August 2013 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today completed its consideration of the combined sixteenth to eighteenth periodic report of Chad on its implementation of the...

Geneva, 19 August 2013 Today is the tenth anniversary of the devastating attack on the United Nations Headquarters in the Canal Hotel in Baghdad on the 19th of August 2003. A day that is etched in the...

Statement Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Open Debate on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts Security Council, New York, 19 August 2013 Mr President Distinguished...

SEOUL, August 16 -- A United Nations-mandated commission looking into the human rights situation in North Korea will begin a series of public hearings in Seoul next week aimed at gathering information...

16 August 2013 The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee today concluded its eleventh session, adopting three texts for consideration by the Human Rights Council. The Committee also adopted "ad...

GENEVA (16 August 2013) – A group of United Nations human rights experts* today called for restraint and an immediate end to violent confrontations that have seen hundreds killed and thousands injured...

16 August 2013 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination today completed its consideration of the combined nineteenth to twenty-first report of Venezuela on its implementation of the...