30 August 2004 United Nations Commission on Human Rights Chairman Mike Smith has appointed Vernor Muñoz Villalobos of Costa Rica as Special Rapporteur on the right to education. The appointment was...

27 August 2004 On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared (30 August), the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) is issuing today the...

27 August 2004 SECURITY UNDER THE RULE OF LAW Dear friends and colleagues, Thank you for inviting me to your meeting here in Berlin. It is a pleasure for me to join this distinguished gathering of...

26 August 2004 The Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Juan Miguel Petit, will visit Romania from 1...

25 August 2004 The Secretary-General today announced the appointment of Ms. Mehr Khan Williams as Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights. The appointment is at the Assistant-Secretary-General level...

23 August 2004 The Independent Expert on Human Rights in Afghanistan, Professor Cherif Bassiouni, concluded on 22 August in Kabul his first official visit to the country, after having been appointed...

23.08.2004 Paul Hunt, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health...

20 August 2004 Issues Recommendations on Reports of Madagascar, Belarus, Mauritania, Slovakia, Argentina, Tajikistan, Portugal and Kazakhstan The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination...

20 August 2004 United Nations Commission on Human Rights Chairman Mike Smith has appointed Shaista Shameem (Fiji) as Special Rapporteur on the use of mercenaries as a means of impeding the exercise of...