"Equality or bust"UN experts call for the post-2015 development agenda to be urgently refocused on equality, social protection and accountability, as the world defines new global development goals.
Syria video“The video that has just emerged from Syria, apparently showing a rebel leader cutting out and biting the heart of a dead soldier, depicts a truly atrocious act", says UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
“Guatemala, never again”Justice is the best guarantee to prevent the recurrence of the terrible atrocities that characterized the civil war in Guatemala, say a group of UN independent human rights experts.
Guatemala / historic verdictHigh Commissioner says Guatemala has made history by becoming the first country in the world to convict a former head of state for genocide in its own national court.
Possible crimes against humanitySyria: “The indiscriminate and possibly deliberate” killings in El Houleh may amount to crimes against humanity or other forms of international crime,” Pillay says.
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