Human Rights

Closing Guantánamo Bay will end ‘dark chapter’ for US, stress UN experts

22 December 2008
Americas

A group of independent United Nations human rights experts have welcomed United States President-elect Barack Obama’s announced decision close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre, stressing it will end “a dark chapter in the country’s history.”

Martin Luther King an ‘unsurpassed advocate’ of UN values, says Ban Ki-moon

8 May 2008
Americas

Viewing original papers written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Atlanta – the city he called home – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today paid tribute to the renowned United States civil rights leader, saying the values he lived and died for are shared by the United Nations.