Tag: Human Rights

11th March 2013 Geneva, Switzerland

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by Bob Last

Head, UK Mission Political and Human Rights Team

Metaphysics, Mathematics and Mayhem

Strange things happen to the passage of time at the Human Rights Council. The days go on forever, the weeks feels like months and don’t get me started on what the months feel like. I’d thought this was just the inverse of time flying when you’re having fun but to make matters more confusing time […]

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3rd February 2013 British High Commission, Kingston, Jamaica

by Syranno Baines

Digital and Communications Officer

A few words for Human Rights

For 2013 Human Rights will continue to factor into most of my conversations. This realization is fueled in part by countless Jamaican news reports of children being murdered, or being made to work, or held in ramshackle prisons with adult offenders. Notwithstanding the moratorium, the death penalty remains on Jamaican law books. The high crime rate, extra […]

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30th January 2013

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Humanitarian crisis in Syria: How Britain is helping

Guest blog by Henry Kenrick, Political Officer at the British Embassy in Ankara, Turkey The eyes of the world are on the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Syria – right on Turkey’s doorstep. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 50,000 Syrians have died. More than 700,000 people have become refugees; and more […]

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19th December 2012

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Promoting LGBT Rights in Turkey Through KAOS

A guest blog by Peter Spoor, Head Press and Projects Team at the British Embassy in Ankara, Turkey KAOS GL is a small but perfectly formed Turkish organisation which is seeking to overturn prejudice in Turkey on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) issues.  KAOS’ aim is to ensure that the country’s LGBT citizens can […]

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11th December 2012 Lima, Peru

Reflections on International Human Rights Day

By Salomón Lerner F., former President of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Chancellor Emeritus of the Catholic University (PUCP). Every 10th of December we commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. Sixty-four years have passed since this took place and since then many advances have been […]

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10th December 2012

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

Human Rights – Inspiration in Turkey

A guest blog by Nadia Hashmi, Second Secretary for internal politics and human rights at the British Embassy in Ankara, Turkey On 10 December 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the day has been celebrated around the world  ever since. Turkey ratified the European Convention on Human Rights on […]

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29th November 2012

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Defending Women’s Rights and Dignity

The following is a guest blog by Sr. Eugenia Bonetti. Human trafficking is one of the greatest affronts to human dignity of our time. It claims an estimated 27 million victims globally, primarily women and children, many forced into prostitution. And it is a lucrative trade, generating roughly $32 billion annually for well organized crime […]

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27th November 2012

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by Martin Harris

Minister and Deputy Head of Mission to Russia

Nicoleta Ghita – British Ambassador for a Day

On Tuesday last week I gave up my seat as Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Romania to Nicoleta Ghita, a very confident and capable young lady from Sector 5 in Bucharest. This was part of Child Takeover Day – an initiative that started in the UK and has been brought to Romania for the first time […]

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26th November 2012

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by Nigel Baker

Ambassador to the Holy See (2011-2016)

Protecting Human Dignity: Violence against Women

25 November was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. It is shameful that crimes by humans against other humans are, it seems, an inevitable element of the human condition. The use of rape as a weapon of war, or human trafficking as a lucrative trade by organised crime, are all too […]

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