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United Nations, New York, September 22, 2011 Français    Dutch We, former prisoners of conscience, dissidents, victims of torture, persecution, and repression, fighters for freedom, democracy and the

Yoani Sanchez, the Cuban dissident and world-renowned blogger, called on the phone from Havana today to address the We Have A Dream: Global Summit Against

Vivid hi-res photos from today’s We Have A Dream: Global Summit Against Discrimination and Persecution. Compelling videos are here. Blog summary is here. Live Tweets Facebook

Ms. Navanethem Pillay UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Palais des Nations 1211 Geneva 10 September 15, 2011 Dear Madam High Commissioner, We write to

Ms. Navanethem Pillay UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Palais des Nations 1211 Geneva 10 September 15, 2011 Dear Madam High Commissioner, We write to

NEW YORK, September 17, 2011 – A coalition of human rights NGOs will hold a major summit in New York on September 21-22, 2011 to

In advance of today’s urgent meeting in Geneva of the UN Human Rights Council to address Syria’s Ramadan Massacre, President Bashar al-Assad’s allies are leaping

Request for UN Human Rights Council Emergency Session to Create Special Rapporteur and Conduct Public Hearings E. Laura Dupuy Lasserre President, Human Rights Council United

GENEVA – North Korea today began chairing the summer plenary of the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament, eliciting a boycott by the Canadian government and a

Deutsche Presse-Agentur Aug 4, 2011 Geneva/New York – The UN Conference on Disarmament opened on Thursday in Geneva, marred by protests and a boycott by Canada

GENEVA, July 7 — After the UN Human Rights Council’s Palestine expert denied and then admitted that he published a “strongly anti-Semitic” cartoon, UN Watch called on

Speaking yesterday at a Geneva press  conference, UN General Assembly president Joseph Deiss said that it would be  “impossible” for the Palestinians to “circumvent the