Reports Describe Evidence of Forced Labour for Guaraní People, Other Indigenous Groups, in Violation of International Treaties, Conventions Corroborating reports that indigenous Guaraní communities in South America?s vast Chaco region — shared by Bolivia and Paraguay — continued to be routinely chased off their lands, pressed into debt bondage and forced to live in […]
The Israeli policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory did not give any indication of change, the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations told the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People today. Riyad Mansour said that Israel continued on the path of violating international law, […]
Call for Broad Adherence to 2007 Indigenous Rights Declaration; Dialogue with Indigenous Groups Followed by Session with Governments The devastating impacts of logging, mining and land conversion had displaced indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands, commercialized their cultures and politically repressed their leaders, speakers in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues stressed today, as they […]
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon?s remarks to the special event to mark the International Year on the Rapprochement of Culture, in New York, today, 21 April: It is a great pleasure to join with you to mark the International Year on the Rapprochement of Cultures -? and to highlight dialogue and […]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon proposed for re-election by the General Assembly Achim Steiner as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for a four-year term. Mr. Steiner is currently serving as Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme for a four-year term — 15 June 2006 through 14 June 2010. In […]
Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message to the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights, delivered by Alicia Bárcena, Executive Secretary of Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), on 20 April in Cochabamba, Bolivia: I thank President [Evo] Morales and the Government of Bolivia for hosting this […]
After two-and-a-half years, the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala had achieved some successes in the fight, its Commissioner, Carlos Castresana Fernández, told correspondents today at Headquarters. Thanks to the Commission?s work, some 2,000 police officers, or 15 per cent of the force, had been dismissed on corruption charges through administrative procedures, he said at a press […]
Session Theme: ?Development with Culture and Identity?; New Zealand Announces Support for Indigenous Rights Declaration The annual United Nations forum on indigenous issues opened today with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling on Member States to promote development while respecting indigenous cultures and traditions, and with the Government of New Zealand taking the opportunity to announce that […]
Consensus Document Also Reflects Concern Over Impact of Organized Crime, Sophistication of Criminal Networks (Received from a UN Information Officer.) SALVADOR, Brazil, 19 April — Agreeing unanimously on the centrality of human rights to an effective, fair and humane criminal justice system, the Twelfth United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice concluded […]
Following are UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s remarks at the opening of the ninth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, in New York, 19 April: It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the ninth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Many of you have travelled […]
