Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch’s Submission to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Human Rights Watch appreciates the opportunity to submit information about the treatment of imprisoned women in Japan. This is in response to your Office’s call for input in preparation for a report ...
Human Rights Watch

Japan Needs to Stop Its Retaliation Against UN Women's Rights Committee

On Jan. 27, Japan's Foreign Ministry said it informed the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights not to allocate any of Japan's voluntary funds to the U.N. Committee on the ...
UNHCR

Speech by Mr. Felix Schnyder, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, to the International Council of Voluntary Agencies, 23 September 1963

And in the essential field of asylum, the Declaration of Human Rights solemnly proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948, endorsed the principle of the right to seek and enjoy ...