rights

Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus Miklós Haraszti.
OSCE/Ilgar Hasanov

UN human rights expert calls unofficial visit to Belarus ‘first step’ towards cooperation

12 July 2017
An independent United Nations human rights expert back from an unofficial visit to Belarus today said he was hopeful for a dialogue to begin with the country’s Government.
In 1995, a government soldier reads out the names of soldiers who are confirmed survivors or escapees from the fallen city of Srebrenica. UNICEF/NYHQ1995-0553/LeMoyne

Recognize tragedy of Srebrenica and ensure such atrocities are never repeated, urges UN chief

10 July 2017
Ahead of the twenty-second anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre – the largest atrocity on European soil since World War II – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres urged all to “look honestly” at the past, acknowledge the crimes and the inaction that allowed them to occur and ensure that such atrocities are never repeated.