Tag: Navi Pillay

• Tuesday, June 18th 2013 - 15:12 UTC

  UN human rights commissioner calls on Brazil to react with moderation to social protests

  

  United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has asked Brazilian authorities to react with moderation to the social protests that have spread through out the country and at the same time has called on demonstrators to avoid using violence to get their message heard.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2012 - 21:14 UTC

  Rousseff empowers Truth commission to look into the past without hatred or vengeance

  

  In a solemn ceremony Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has sworn in the seven members of a Truth commission created to look into human rights abuses committed during the nation’s long dictatorship.

• Saturday, June 25th 2011 - 07:44 UTC

  Torture remains prevalent in too many countries, UN warns

  

  Too many countries are still practising or tolerating “cruel, degrading and illegal” acts of torture, top United Nations officials said today as they pledged the UN's solidarity with the millions of torture victims worldwide.