UN rights chief slams `illegal` response to protestors

Last Updated: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 00:08

The UN human rights chief condemned the response of security forces against protestors in the Middle East.

Egypt set for Tunisia-style change: UN rights chief

Last Updated: Friday, February 4, 2011, 20:05

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said that Egypt would experience the kind of change that has swept Tunisia.

UN rights chief slates Myanmar election

Last Updated: Friday, October 29, 2010, 21:22

UN chief said it was not too late for a "credible, democratic" transition.

UN rights probe into Israel flottilla raid heads to Turkey

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 00:12

A UN human rights inquiry into Israel`s deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla has begun a two-week visit to Turkey and Jordan to interview witnesses and government officials, the UN said on Monday.

UN rights body rejects reports about `clean chit` to Sobhraj

Last Updated: Friday, August 6, 2010, 16:27

The UN has dismissed reports it had given a clean chit to `bikini killer`.

UN rights body tells Israel to end Gaza blockade

Last Updated: Friday, July 30, 2010, 19:16

Israel must lift its military blockade of the Gaza Strip and invite an independent, fact-finding mission to investigate its raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a United Nations rights body said.

South Kyrgyzstan forces may have used torture: UN rights

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 21:08

The UN human rights chief said today that she had information that security forces in Kyrgyzstan used torture and arbitrary detention during June`s deadly inter-ethnic clashes.

UN rights body want Nepal Maoists to end impunity

Last Updated: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 00:47

UN rights agency OHCHR-Nepal on Friday expressed concern over threats by Maoists to human rights defenders.

UN rights experts keep up pressure on secret detentions

Last Updated: Friday, June 4, 2010, 10:58

Over 65 countries are involved in secret detention of terror suspects.

UN rights chief chides Gulf states over women`s employment

Last Updated: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 09:14

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay on Saturday criticised restrictions on women`s employment in some Gulf counties and called for those barriers to be lifted.

UN rights chief to visit Iran next year

Last Updated: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 23:12

The top U.N. human rights official, who has expressed concern about a crackdown on dissent in Iran after last year`s disputed election, said Saturday she would pay a rare visit to the Islamic Republic next year.

UN rights chief asks Tehran to `respect` right to protest

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 23:53

The UN`s top human rights official on Tuesday called on Tehran to "respect" the right to protest, amid fresh demonstrations reported by official media in Iran.