GENEVA (12 October 2023) – UN independent experts* today unequivocally condemned targeted and deadly violence directed at civilians in Israel and violent and indiscriminate attacks against Palestinian...

French GENEVA (20 September 2016) – The final report of the United Nations Independent Investigation in Burundi (UNIIB)* published Tuesday, describes “abundant evidence of gross human rights...

BUJUMBURA/GENEVA (17 June 2016): At the end of their second visit to Burundi, the three human rights experts of the United Nations Independent Investigation on Burundi (UNIIB) called for concrete...

BUJUMBURA/GENEVA (24 May 2016) – The United Nations Independent Investigation in Burundi, which was set up to investigate human rights violations in the country since April 2015, has completed the...

BUJUMBURA/GENEVA (8 March 2016) – After eight days of meetings, interviews, and exchanges with a wide range of actors, the United Nations Independent Investigation on Burundi (UNIIB), created by the...

In accordance with a resolution* adopted by the Human Rights Council on 17 December requesting the High Commissioner “to urgently organize and dispatch on the most expeditious basis possible a mission...

25 June 2009 GENEVA – NEW YORK -- Two United Nations human rights experts* urge the UN General Assembly to adopt human rights as a framework for analysis, action and accountability in their responses...

27 April 2009 GENEVA: The Independent Expert of the Human Rights Council on the effects of foreign debt on human rights, Cephas Lumina, will visit Norway from 28 to 30 April 2009, followed by a visit...

GENEVA -- “The international community has missed a crucial opportunity to reform the international framework on debt, for the benefit of the people on the ground,” concluded the Independent Expert on...