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Libya: Attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure may amount to war crimes, Bachelet warns

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09 Apr 2019

Arabic GENEVA (9 April 2019) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday reminded all parties to the conflict in Libya of their obligations under international law to ensure...

UN report details horrors of western DRC violence, urges action to prosecute those responsible and prevent further bloodshed

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12 Mar 2019

French GENEVA (12 March 2019) – A special investigative mission to Yumbi territory in Mai-Ndombe province, in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo, found that horrific intercommunal attacks...

South Sudanese individuals can be prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity even in other countries, say UN human rights experts

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12 Mar 2019

“Impunity cannot be allowed to continue.” Geneva (12 March 2019) – The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has identified 23 individuals over the past year who bear command or superior...

Bachelet urges El Salvador´s legislators to refrain from reinstating amnesty for serious human rights violations

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06 Mar 2019

Spanish GENEVA (6 March 2019) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday warned that a draft National Reconciliation Law under discussion in El Salvador´s Legislative...

Benjamin Orenstein, Holocaust survivor

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01 Feb 2019

Benjamin Orenstein, 93, is one of the last witnesses of the Holocaust and the only surviving member of his family who were all executed in the camps. He tells us his story.

Attack on the Displaced Persons’ Camp in Alindao, Basse-Kotto Prefecture,on 15 November 2018: Breaches of International Humanitarian Law andAtrocity Crimes Committed by the UPC and anti-Balaka associated militias

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01 Sep 2018

A/HRC/37/65: Joint study on the contribution of transitional justice to the prevention of gross violations and abuses of human rights and serious violations of international humanitarian law, including genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, and their recurrence - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence and the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide

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06 Jun 2018

Report of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan

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14 Mar 2018

Opening remarks by Mr. Bacre Waly Ndiaye,
Director of the Human Rights Council and Special Procedures Division to the Roundtable on the prevention of genocide in practice - Ideas for cooperation in the Great Lakes Region

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26 Oct 2011

26 October 2011 Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank you for giving me this opportunity to address this important roundtable on an issue which has unfortunately greatly affected the Great Lakes...

UN Human Rights Chief hails arrest of Ratko Mladić

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26 May 2011

GENEVA (26 May 2011) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday welcomed the arrest by the Serbian authorities of Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb military leader sought by the...