Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 31 January 2014 Subjects: 1) Egypt and 2) Ukraine 1) Egypt We are extremely concerned about the...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date : 28 January 2014 Subject: Tunisia We congratulate the people of Tunisia for their adoption on...

GENEVA (27 January 2014) – The Central African Republic is now at a critical juncture, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay warned on Monday, amid renewed fighting and the...

GENEVA (27 January 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Monday said she was gravely concerned about the escalating violence in Egypt in recent days that has led to scores of...

Room VII, Palais des Nations Tuesday 28 January 10h00 Ladies and Gentlemen, Every year we gather to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust. For years the Nazis persecuted, rounded up and transported...

“Today, we honour the memory of the millions of people - men, women and children - brutally murdered seven decades ago for the simple fact of being Jewish, Roma, Slav or homosexual, because they had...

GENEVA (23 January 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday urged the Government of Myanmar to investigate credible reports of two serious incidents in the northern...

GENEVA (21 January 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday stressed the urgent need for constructive dialogue in Ukraine to avoid further escalation of the unrest in the...

Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council, Excellencies and Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, In my interim report to this Council on the human rights situation in the Central...

GENEVA (17 January 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Friday strongly condemned the repeated obstruction of convoys trying to bring supplies to a besieged population of some...