“Both sport and human rights share many fundamental values and objectives,” says Pillay at a UN Human Rights Council panel discussion on sport and human rights.

The Government of Paraguay presents a National Human Rights Action Plan aimed at improving the human rights situation in the country.

The Human Rights Council convening for its 19th session immediately schedules an urgent debate on the human rights and humanitarian situation in Syria.

UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay welcomes the findings of a court in South Africa, which has handed down long sentences to a group of men found guilty of the brutal murder of a teenager who was living openly as a lesbian.