Geneva Institute for Human Rights

With an eye on Algeria's May 10 legislative elections, United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, urged Algerian authorities to ensure that new regulations for civil society organizations, adopted at the end of last year, adequately meet the requirements of international human rights law.

The Geneva Institute for Human Rights and the Algerian National Advisory Committee launched a new training session on the role of the Human Rights Committee (HRC), a four-day program that took place in the Algerian capital from April 22-25.

The program represented a cooperative effort between national institutions for human rights in Algeria with contractual entities of the United Nations.

Recognizing the expanding capacity of both civil society organizations and human rights activists in Libya, the Geneva Institute for Human Rights is holding a three-stage training program on human rights protection mechanisms.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Thursday warned that comments allegedly made by the Governor of South Kordofan State in Sudan, Ahmed Haroun, could exacerbate an already dangerous situation in the border state.