Navi Pillay
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 23, 2022
Navi Pillay, who leads the United Nations Human Rights Council’s commission of inquiry on Palestine and Israel, has written to the president of the General Assembly about a “matter of significant concern” involving the Israeli ambassador at a public…
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 2, 2022
It was billed as a grand ceremony staged by the United Nations Association of Germany to award its biennial Otto Hahn Peace Medal to Navi Pillay, marking her decades of groundbreaking work in human rights and international criminal law,…
- Categories: Human Rights, International Justice, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Damilola Banjo
- • September 16, 2022
This week, we focus on the preparations of the annual United Nations General Assembly opening session with world leaders — “high-level week” — from Sept. 20-26 and other stories around the world. The speakers’ list is constantly revising, though…
- Categories: Africa, General Assembly, Secretary-General, Security Council, This Week @UN, US-UN Relations
- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2022
Nations of the world have taken giant steps in recent decades to build international structures and strengthen institutions to deal with mass human-rights abusers. At almost every stage, Navi Pillay, a South African lawyer, was there, advancing the rights…
- Categories: Africa, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 6, 2021
Jessica Neuwirth, a pivotal force in promoting and supporting the rights of women and girls worldwide, was appointed to the rank of chevalier in the French Legion of Honor by the French government in a ceremony in New York…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Rights, Women as Changemakers
- Bertrand Ramcharan
- • April 19, 2018
While slavery and inhumane practices have still not been eradicated, the United Nations has done much to expose them and to help stamp them out. Its efforts continue. Early after its establishment, the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights carried…
- Categories: Africa, Asia, Gender Violence, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, International Justice
- Julie Vanderperre
- • July 20, 2017
As political instability, conflicts and migration proliferate across the world, technology has become a potential solution for identifying and predicting human-rights violations, which play a major role instigating upheavals. Smartphones enable instant updates and eyewitness accounts of events happening…
- Categories: Human Rights
- Raymond A. Smith
- • December 8, 2015
Several major breakthroughs in the promotion of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have occurred through United Nations mechanisms. From the worldwide multimedia Free & Equal campaign to LGBT-related resolutions and reports in the…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Rosa Freedman
- • May 3, 2015
The United Nations human-rights machinery is making its most radical overhaul since the creation of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights more than two decades ago. A recent announcement by Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein of Jordan, the…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Alexander Brotman
- • August 11, 2014
An international mission of forensic experts and unarmed police led by the Netherlands, with Australian and Malaysian participation, has temporarily suspended its investigation and recovery work at the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine. The…
- Categories: Security Council, UN Agencies
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 19, 2014
As Sunni Muslim extremists first seized strategic cities in Iraq last week, and a United Nations spokesman for the human-rights high commissioner, Navi Pillay, said that rapes had been part of the mayhem, leaving four female victims dead from…
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, ICC, International Justice, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 6, 2014
The United Nations secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, has told the UN General Assembly that he intends to appoint Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein of Jordan as the next UN high commissioner for human rights, replacing Navi Pillay, whose term, her…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 29, 2014
José Ramos-Horta, the United Nations special envoy for Guinea-Bissau in West Africa since January 2013 and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is leaving his post, he confirmed. Ramos-Horta, 64, will become chairman and chief executive of UBrainTV, an Internet…
- Categories: GOINGS-ON
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • April 10, 2014
The United Nations Security Council has authorized yet another peacekeeping force for an African country, the Central African Republic, approving up to 12,000 military and police personnel who are not likely to arrive until mid-September. The goal of the…
- Categories: Asia, Child Soldiers, Peace and Security, Security Council
- Barbara Crossette
- • February 6, 2014
 When the latest list of 20 top donors to UN Women appeared last year, there was only one country outside the richer nations of the world among them: Mexico. The Mexican commitment to the women’s agency reflects the…
- Categories: Human Rights, Latin America, Women
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