Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I will address five substantive themes that have also been addressed in the 2015 OHCHR report on the impact of the world drug problem on the enjoyment of human...

Colombo, 9 February 2016 Good afternoon, and thank you for coming. I come to you shortly after wrapping up my visit here with meetings with President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil...

No changes in the dismal human rights situation in Belarus since the presidential election GENEVA (9 February 2016) - “During the four months since the October presidential elections, no changes have...

GENEVA (9 February 2016) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus, Miklós Haraszti, today warned that opposition leaders, human rights activists, journalists...

GENEVA (9 February 2016) – The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is meeting in Geneva from 15 February to 4 March to review women’s rights in the following...

Arabic Geneva, 8 February 2016 – Over the past four and a half years, thousands of detainees have been killed while in the custody of warring parties, according to the UN Commission of Inquiry on...

GENEVA (8 February 2016) - We are alarmed by reports of escalating inter-communal violence in the Lubero and Walikale territories, North Kivu province, with at least 21 people killed, 40 wounded and...

On 4 December 2015, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted Opinion No. 54/2015, in which it considered that Mr. Julian Assange was arbitrarily detained by the Governments of Sweden...

GENEVA (5 February 2016) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained by Sweden and the United Kingdom since his arrest in London on 7 December 2010, as a result of the legal...