Human Rights

President Barack Obama

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

22 December 2008

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.”

Dr. Martin Luther King and Mrs. King are greeted by Ralph Bunche on a visit to the United Nations in 1964.

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.

UN agency urges release of Laotians held in Thailand for more than a year

14 January 2008
Asia Pacific

The United Nations refugee agency has called for the release of 149 Lao Hmong, including many children, who have been held in sub-standard conditions in a Thai detention centre since they were rounded up for deportation more than a year ago.