Dainius Pūras, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, recently urged member states to focus on social factors affecting mental health, claiming that the "quality of social relationships … between individuals, families and communities ... acr...
Representatives of the Helsinki
Foundation for Human Rights met with Diego Garcia-Sayan, United Nations Special
Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, upon his arrival in Poland. The conversation was
devoted to, among other things, the o...
"The war on drugs
has failed utterly because it went from a war on drugs and dealers to a war on
drug users," claims Dainius Pūras, the UN special rapporteur on the right to health, who wrote an open letter to Yury Fedotov, the head
of the UN Office on...
The UN special rapporteur on the right to health published a report on prevention of child mortality. Some 6.3 million children under 5 years of age died in 2013, mostly from preventable causes and treatable diseases, the report states. Although child ...
Rights International Spain and the three main associations of judges in the country have sent a letter to the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, asking her to intervene and visit the country. The main concerns noted in the...
