GENEVA (18 April 2013) – Two United Nations experts on the right to food and foreign debt today raised the alarm over the World Bank-led privatization of the Burundian coffee sector, and called for...

GENEVA (18 April 2013) – A group of United Nations independent experts on extreme poverty, indigenous peoples, right to food and foreign debt called on the Word Bank to adopt human rights standards...

GENEVA (13 December 2012) - The United Nations Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina, urged world governments not allow ‘vulture funds’ to paralyze debt relief for heavily...

END OF MISSION STATEMENT Riga, 18 May 2012 Today marks the end of my official fact-finding visit to Latvia which began on 14 May. I wish to express my gratitude to the Government of the Republic of...

GENEVA (14 May 2012) – As European Union Finance Ministers meet on 15 May to coincide with the G-8 Summit in Camp David, a group of United Nations independent experts urged the EU to take the lead in...

GENEVA (13 December 2011) – The UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Cephas Lumina, today urged the Government of Jersey to enact legislation, similar to that adopted in the United...

GENEVA (30 June 2011) – The UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human Rights, Cephas Lumina, warned Thursday that implementation of further austerity measures and structural reforms proposed by...

GENEVA (18 March 2011) – UN Independent Expert Cephas Lumina will visit Viet Nam from 21-29 March 2011 to assess the impact of the country’s debt burden on the realization of human rights and the...

GENEVA (17 September 2010) – “The Heads of State gathering in New York next week should bear in mind that, if they really want to eliminate poverty, they must be guided by human rights,” said 26...

12 May 2009 At the end of his official visits to Norway and Ecuador (28 April to 8 May 2009), the United Nations Human Rights Council's Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Cephas...