31 August 2005 Beijing/Geneva, 31 August 2005 -- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour and Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang today signed an agreement aimed at...

30 August 2005 Beijing/Geneva, 30 August 2005 – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour today opened an Asia-Pacific regional human rights conference with a call for ever...

30 August 2005 State Councillor Tang, Excellencies, Ministers, distinguished representatives and colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is my great pleasure to open this Annual Workshop on Regional...

UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS IN NEPAL PRESS RELEASE 30 August 2005 On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August), Ian Martin, the...

Plenary Session ”Towards Gender Equality and Common Development” (Beijing, 29 August 2005) Thank you [Ms. Chairperson], Distinguished colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honour and a pleasure...

26 August 2005 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour will visit the People’s Republic of China from 29 August to 2 September 2005. The visit, the first by Mrs. Arbour and the...

26 August 2005 On the occasion of International Day of the Disappeared (30 August), the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances is issuing the following message: The...

23 August 2005 The Special Rapporteur on questions relating to torture strongly condemns all acts of terrorism, including the bombings which took place in London on 7 July 2005 and the subsequent...

22 August 2005 The Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Miloon Kothari, will visit...

22 August 2005 The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on torture made the following statement today: The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on...