On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Ban calls for new push to improve access to society
Disabled workers at a chalk factory in Ghana's capital, Accra.
SRI LANKA: Speaker's ruling has no bearing upon the substantive issues in the impeachment
The Speaker's ruling relating to the Supreme Court's notice to the Speaker and the members of the Parliamentary Select Committee does not in any way prohibits the constitutional right of the Court to entertain and to determine the Reference made by...
agency begins distributing winter aid in Afghanistan as temperatures begin to drop
Vulnerable Afghan families line up to receive winter supplies in Dahsabz, a suburb of Kabul.
OSCE Gender Adviser, in Portugal, stresses need to uphold women's rights in economic crisis
The view from the historic Santa Justa Lift looking towards Pedro IV Square in Lisbon, Portugal, 2 March 2006.
OSCE media freedom representative welcomes Italian Senate’s rejection of libel legislation, calls for full decriminalization of defamation
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, during a conference on digital freedom, The Hague, 9 December 2011....
Archbishop Desmond Tutu laureate of the 2012 UNESCO/Bilbao Prize for the Promotion of a Culture of Human Rights
UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova, has designated Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu from South Africa as laureate of the 2012...
Pakistan: Judges Muzzling Critics in the Media
Pakistan’s judges should cease using their contempt of court powers to prevent the media from airing programming critical of the judiciary, Human Rights Watch said.
Syria: Evidence Shows Cluster Bombs Killed Children
Compelling evidence has emerged that an airstrike using cluster bombs on the town of Deir al-`Assafeer near Damascus killed at least 11 children and wounded others on November 25, 2012. The Syrian government should immediately cease its use of this...
On International Day, Ban leads UN call for action to end violence against women
Human rights: migrants' security in Libya, executions in Iran, violence in Burma
Parliament is gravely concerned that Libya is detaining foreign persons, including women and children, in extreme conditions. It urges the democratically-elected Libyan authorities to protect all foreign nationals, regardless of their status, from...
