23 June 2011 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today spoke out against the lengthy jail sentences given to 21 political activists, human rights defenders and opposition leaders...
1 June 2011
The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the combined second and third periodic report of Bahrain on how that country is implementing the...
12 April 2011
Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns netizen Zakariya Rashid Hassan’s death in detention on 9 April, six days after his arrest on charges of inciting...
22 March 2011 – The United Nations human rights office today voiced its deep concern at recent events in Yemen, Bahrain and Syria, including the excessive use of force and...
22 March 2011
GENEVA – “From security to the freedoms of peaceful assembly and expression, the Government of Bahrain has ignored key human rights commitments made a month...
GENEVA (17 March 2011) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said Thursday she was deeply alarmed by the escalation of violence by security forces in Bahrain,...
16 March 2011 – The head of the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO), Juan Somavia, today expressed grave concern over the declaration of a state of...
GENEVA (18 February 2011) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday condemned as illegal and excessively heavy-handed the response of a number of governments in...
GENEVA (Friday 18 February 2011) – A group of UN human rights experts* urged Friday the Governments of Bahrain and Libya to guarantee the right to peaceful protest and...
UNITED
NATIONS
A
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/HRC/8/19
22 May 2008
Original: ENGLISH
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Eighth session
Agenda item 6
UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW...