3 October 2003 The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the question of torture, Theo van Boven, will be undertaking a fact-finding mission to Spain from 6 to 10...

1 October 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of Georgia on how that country was implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of...

30 September 2003 This Commission is an important body and we must all do what we can to strengthen it and to increase the impact of its work. The last time we met in this one-day format our late High...

30 September 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of Bangladesh on how that country was implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights...

SG/SM/98/16 Davos, Switzerland, 31 January 1998 Secretary-General Kofi Annan adresses the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, on 31 January 1998. I am pleased to be back in Davos and to be...

30 January 1998 Mr. John Mills, Media and Information Officer in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated that the High Commissioner Mary Robinson was in Davos attending the annual...