Europe

High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay

Ban calls on Belarus to release detained journalists and opposition leaders

10 January 2011
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called for the release of journalists, opposition candidates and their supporters who continue to be detained in Belarus following recent presidential elections.
A couple of boys walking through the floodwaters in the Vruja settlement in Montenegro

Balkan flood victims will continue to need aid through winter, UN says

7 January 2011
Tens of thousands of people affected by the worst floods to hit Bosnia and Herzegovina and neighbouring Montenegro in decades will continue to need help during the winter months, warned the United Nations refugee agency, which has already provided assistance to several thousand people in the two Balkan nations.