Comunicados de la Alta Comisionada en el Mundo

GENEVA - Lithuania violated the political rights of ex-president Rolandas Paksas when it introduced a rule to ban anyone who had been impeached from running…

GENEVA – On International Roma Day, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on minority issues, Rita Izsák, calls on all European States and institutions to fully…

Twenty years after the beginning of the genocide in Rwanda, the horror has not diminished. As a former judge for over eight years on the…

GENEVA – A group of United Nations independent human rights experts on Wednesday called on the Vietnamese Government to intervene urgently in a case of…

GENEVA –The UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families (CMW) is meeting from 31 March to 11 April…

Location: Geneva Subject: 1) Egypt death sentences 2) Turkey (in response to a question) 1) Egypt death sentences We are deeply alarmed by the imposition…

GENEVA (21 March 2014) – UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Šimonovi? today arrived in Crimea for a two-day visit to lay the groundwork…

STRASBOURG (21 March 2014) – Two key international expert mechanisms for the fight against racism, intolerance and xenophobia have combined forces to strengthen this fight…

GENEVA (19 March 2014) – The United Nations Independent Expert on minority issues, Rita Izsák, urged greater international and national attention to the plight of…

GENEVA (19 March 2014) – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on slavery, Gulnara Shahinian, will undertake a follow-up mission to Kazakhstan from 25 to 27…