Tag: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

• Saturday, January 11th 2014 - 06:45 UTC

  Brazilian jails in collapse: one convict is slain every two days

  

  Brazilian report shows at least 218 inmates were killed in the country’s jails last year, an average of more than one convict slain every two days. The data was published by Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo on Thursday.

• Monday, June 20th 2011 - 21:10 UTC

  Uruguay presides over the UN Human Rights Council for the next 12 months

  

  Uruguay in representation of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean countries (GRULAC) will occupy for the next twelve months the rotating presidency of the United Nations Human Rights Council which is seated in Geneva.