UNHRC

Politics

International NGOs Claim Burundi suspension from UNHRC

10-27-2016 A coalition of 13 leading International NGOs demand Burundi suspension from the UN Human Rights Council. The flagrant refusal to cooperate with the UN human rights system and the gross and systematic violations occurring in the country are the main motives of the suspension. In an open letter to (...)
Human Right

Burundi’s delegation to the Human Rights Committee seems ill-prepared

10-23-2014 Burundi’s Human Right record was reviewed by the UN Human Rights Committee on 8-9 October in Geneva.-By Lorraine Josiane Manishatse The committee was interested in the case of two commissioners of the Burundian Independent National Commission on Human Right (INCHR), who were instated without consulting opposition parties and civil (...)