Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 27 June 2014 Subject: 1) Israel / occupied Palestinian territory 2) China 3) Libya 4) Venezuela 1)...

GENEVA (26 June 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed concern Thursday about the large number of executions in Iran since the beginning of this year, calling on the...

GENEVA (25 June 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay announced Wednesday that three distinguished experts have agreed to advise and support the team set up to conduct a...

Every day, in prisons, police stations and places of detention both official and secret, women, men and children are deliberately and atrociously tortured. They are made to suffer pain and humiliation...

Human Rights Council 26th Session High-level Panel Discussion on Human Rights Mainstreaming Geneva, 25 June 2014 10.00-13.00, Room XX Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date : 24 June 2014 Subject: Iraq The UNAMI* human rights team continues its efforts to verify the...

23 June 2014 I am very pleased to welcome you to the 26th annual meeting of Chairpersons of human rights treaty bodies. This is also the last time I will address you as High Commissioner, and our...

GENEVA (23 June 2014) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said she was “shocked and alarmed” by the verdicts and heavy jail sentences of between 7 and 10 years handed down to three Al...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights : Ravina Shamdasani Location: Geneva Date: 20 June 2014 We continue to follow closely the situation of Palestinian hunger strikers protesting...

GENEVA (18 June 2014) – The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday issued a new report on Ukraine that describes the breakdown of law and order in the areas held by armed...