In March the South African People's Tribunal on Agrotoxins led by Judge Navi Pillay urged the European Parliament's Human Rights Committee to push for a ban while noting South Africa's failure to update pesticide laws dating back to 1947...
Vol 55 No 9 |
- SOUTH SUDAN
Legal scrutiny Navi Pillay the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Adama Dieng the UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide delivered a tougher message about the responsibility of both Riek and Salva for the worsening human crisis in their country...
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On 19 June the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay warned that the fighting threatened the entire region: ‘The leaders of the M23 figure among the worst perpetrators of human rights violations in the Congo or in the world for that matter...
The mid-May visit to Zimbabwe by the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Navanethem Pillay was disastrous...
At the end of her visit Navi Pillay gave a public lecture and a press conference...
The announcement by United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on 9 February that Gambia’s putschist President Yahya Jammeh had requested UN assistance in the case of ‘Chief’ Ebrima Manneh was greeted with general scepticism...
Vol 51 No 20 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
On 20 September UNHuman Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay received the latest official objections from Burundi to her investigators' account of terrible events in Congo-Kinshasa in 1993-2003...
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navanethem Pillay said the report would not be published until 1 October ‘to give concerned states a further month to comment on the draft’...