The general report recalls the gradual extension of the CPT’s field of operations across Europe. Nevertheless, it points out that there remain certain parts of the continent in which...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
Turkey: ARTICLE 19 Concerned about Continuous Threats to Freedom of Expression in Turkey
Article 301 makes it a crime to insult “Turkishness” as well as the Turkish Republic and its institutions, carrying sentences of up to four years. Since it came into...
On the one hand we have Turks who do not remember anything, and on the other are Armenians who live as if the events of 1915 happened just 15...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
Statement by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Social protection should not be seen as an optional act of charity. It is, in fact, an obligation enshrined in international human rights law. It is essential that global...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
“Climate change is also a human rights concern” says Commissioner Hammarberg
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which their rights and freedoms can be fully realised. This order...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
High Commissioner opens first ever UN Human Rights office in European Union
“OHCHR was only founded 16 years ago, so it is still a young organization,” Pillay said. “We already have 10 other regional offices in Africa, the Middle East, Latin...
14.10.2009 Hasan’s father Ibro, mother Nasiha and 18-year-old brother Muhamed were all killed in the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s largest act of genocide since the second world war. It is...
They are the scapegoats for Turkish elites who are trying to escape from the burdens of our history. Without knowing history, we can never understand how this handful of...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
With and for the poor,” the planning key to protect urban dwellers from climate change, says UN expert on World Habitat Day
Low income dwellers are often located in the most hazard prone areas within cities. They lack the basic infrastructure and services necessary to protect them from environmental disasters. “Cities...
2009 Press Releases
Press Releases
Turkey: Commissioner Hammarberg recommends further efforts to protect human rights for minorities, asylum seekers and refugees
The Commissioner is concerned that the authorities do not officially recognise the existence of any minority groups other than those of Armenians, Greeks and Jews and recommends efforts to...