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High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay
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HIGH COMMISSIONER NAVI PILLAY TAKES OFFICE

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay this week begins her four-year term of office.
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Acting High Commissioner Kyung-wha Kang speaks about OHCHR’s birth and its future on the 15th anniversary of the Vienna World Conference on Human Rights - © Sonja Wintersberger/UN Information Service Vienna

Acting on a vision

In her speech to an expert conference, Acting High Commissioner Kyung-wha Kang assessed States’ implementation of their commitments made at the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna.

 

OHCHR’s Bacre Waly Ndiaye calls on African countries to heed the recommendations of human rights mechanisms to fight racism © OHCHRHome truths

African countries assess their anti-racism efforts in the run-up to the anti-racism Review Conference in 2009.
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Human Rights in the news

New UN High Commissioner for Human Rights takes up her post

For the next four years, High Commissioner Pillay will represent the UN's commitment to combatting injustices throughout the world.
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Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Guatemala

The UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Kyung-wha Kang, will visit Guatemala from 2 to 4 September 2008.
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Statement by UN Working Group on Enforced disappearances on the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared

Expresses concern over the growing number of cases of enforced disappearances occurring throughout the world, particularly in Chad, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Thailand.
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OHCHR calls for restraint in Indian-administered Kashmir

OHCHR calls on the Indian authorities to respect the right to freedom of assembly and expression, and comply with international human rights principles in controlling the demonstrators.
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Rights Panel concerned by clear breach of law in new Liberia death penalty legislation

Falk urges the international community to take action to uphold human rights in the Gaza Strip and calls on the government of Israel to grant exit permits to several Palestinian winners of a Fulbright Scholarship.
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