Navi Pillay
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 15, 2014
In an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Michel Sidibé, the executive director of UNAIDS, the organization called AIDS-Free World wants answers to questions about how the UN will deal with Nigeria after the adoption of…
- Categories: Africa, Human Rights
- Barbara Crossette
- • December 13, 2013
An unexpected Indian Supreme Court ruling on Dec. 11 upholding a law that criminalizes same-sex relationships drew a swift rebuke within 24 hours from Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, who called it a violation…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 14, 2013
Tsuneo Nishida, the Japanese ambassador to the United Nations, spoke recently on his country’s positions on peace and security, disarmament, human rights and UN reform. Japan, which is the world’s third-largest economy and second-biggest contributor (after the United States)…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Peace and Security, Special Report
- A. Edward Elmendorf
- • September 14, 2012
The visibility of human-rights violations by the Syrian government amid the current turmoil owes much to the United Nations, particularly to its Independent International Commission of Inquiry, led by Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, a Brazilian lawyer, public official and professor. …
- Categories: BOOKS
- Dulcie L Leimbach
- • December 5, 2011
As violence continues unabated in Syria despite tough economic and travel sanctions from such big players as the Arab League, the European Union, Turkey and the United States, the head of the UN’s high commissioner for human rights has…
- Categories: Human Rights, Middle East, Peace and Security
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