Editorials
December 3, 2015
Opinion piece: “Burning down the house” – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
3 December 2015 – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights likens man-made climate change to being an arsonist burning down one’s
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September 10, 2015
Opinion piece: By reducing the age of criminal responsibility, Brazil would ignore international commitments
*By Mr. Amerigo Incalcaterra In several South American countries -including Brazil- has emerged a discussion over reducing the age of criminal responsibility
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July 28, 2015
Opinion piece: An Excellent Tool for Mainstreaming Human Rights
*by JESSICA BRAVER The process of reviewing a country’s human rights records can become an opportunity to bond human rights with development.
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February 15, 2015
Opinion piece – “Prison systems: a pending debt in South America”
Originally published by Chilean newspaper “La Tercera” on 9 February 2015 Penitentiary systems in South America share a series of chronic
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June 16, 2014
Opinion piece: “A test for democracy”
On social protest and human rights, featured in several newspapers in the region.
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March 7, 2014
Equality and Justice in the Courtroom
By Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights It is natural for a man to respond to a nagging female
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April 19, 2013
Why the exception should not be the rule*
Internment without consent should be applied to situations of absolute emergency; it should be the exception, not the rule Drug use (especially
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March 7, 2013
Statement by the UN Human Rights Chief on International Women’s Day
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay International Women’s Day – 8 March 2013 Violence against women Last month, in the
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July 23, 2012
Turning the tide together on HIV – a human rights imperative
Editorial by Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the International AIDS Conference 2012 The world’s collective response to HIV
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December 9, 2011
Editorial: The Tunis Imperative: Human Rights and Development in the Wake of the Arab Spring
By Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights There are moments in history when each of us is called upon
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