22 February 2012 Mr. Chairperson, distinguished members of the Advisory Committee. Thank you for this opportunity to meet with you this morning. If you will allow me Chairperson, my intervention will...

Message by the United Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity, Virginia Dandan, to mark the International Human Solidarity Day, 20 December 2011 GENEVA (20 December...

“Will the inertia that has been ailing climate change negotiations finally break new ground?” she asked. “International solidarity should be preventive rather than simply reactive to the massive...

3 October 2011 In his final report to the Human Rights Council, my predecessor the former Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity summarizes the answers to the questionnaire on...

Human Rights Council Panel on The Way Forward in the Realization of the Right to Development: Between Policy and Practice 14 September 2011 In his final report to the Human Rights Council, the former...

13 September 2011 Madam President, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen. Please allow me Madam President, to thank the Human Rights Council through you, for my appointment as independent...

GENEVA – This year the United Nations Human Rights Council has created new monitoring and reporting mechanisms on the situation of human rights in Iran, the freedom of peaceful assembly and of...