Navi Pillay

The news story looked even more bizarre than the one in 2010 which announced that (then-prime minister) President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an had won the Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights. 

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Aug. 25 a ruthless campaign of "ethnic and religious cleansing" by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq amounted to a crime against humanity.
      

More than 191,000 people have died in Syria, United Nations rights chief Navi Pillay said Friday, hitting out at "international paralysis" on the nearly three-and-a-half year conflict.
      
Pillay said the death toll of 191,369, recorded between March 2011 when the war broke out and April this year, was nearly double that given a year ago, and was likely an underestimate.

The downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 "may amount to a war crime", the UN said Monday, adding that fighting in east Ukraine has claimed over 1,100 lives with both government and rebel forces using heavy weaponry in built-up areas.
      

Israel's military actions in the Gaza Strip could amount to war crimes, UN rights chief Navi Pillay said Wednesday while also condemning indiscriminate rocket attacks by Palestinian militants Hamas.
      

The Islamic militants who overran cities and towns in Iraq last week posted graphic photos that appeared to show their gunmen massacring scores of captured Iraqi soldiers.

Concerns are growing over executions and mounting abuses by militants led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), amid a warning from the United Nations that hundreds of people were killed, many of them summarily executed, after the seizure of Mosul.

The U.N.'s human rights chief on June 13 condemned reports of summary executions and extrajudicial killings in Iraq amid fears of mounting abuses by jihadists as they advance across the north of the country.

IFJ urges UN to support journalists’ safety

GENEVA -- The International Federation of Journalists has urged collective action to promote media safety during a discussion organized by the UN Human Rights Council.

The panel on the safety of journalists took place during the council's 26th session which opened on June 10 in Geneva, the IFJ said in a statement.