Sentences with phrase «un high commissioner»

Hours before Monday's attack, the UN high commissioner for human rights questioned the measures being taken by Egypt's government to combat jihadism.

Navi Pillay, UN high commissioner for human rights, issued a statement recently calling for Guantanamo's closure, adding that its existence is a breach of international law.

According to Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, «the [Saudi - led] Coalition is responsible for twice as many civilian casualties as all other forces put together, virtually all as a result of airstrikes».

Instead it calls for the Syrian government to meet their people's legitimate demands, release all prisoners of conscience, lift restrictions on the media and internet and cooperate with the UN high commissioner for human rights.

The UN has «not seen a refugee outflow escalate at such a frightening rate since the Rwandan genocide almost 20 years ago,» said UN high commissioner for refugees António Guterres at a New York meeting this summer.

António Guterres, the former prime minister of Portugal and UN high commissioner for refugees, took over on January 1 for a five - year term as the United Nations secretary general.

As a long - serving UN high commissioner for human rights, she framed crimes against humanity in strikingly personal terms.

[3] The last two UN High Commissioners for Human Rights have condemned ISIS brutality, [4] as have the UN's Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and the Special Advisor on the Responsibility to Protect, Jennifer Welsh.