HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, SPEAKING ON SENTENCING OF CHINESE DETAINEES, SAYS SHE WILL CONTINUE TO PRESS FOR FAIR-TRIAL STANDARDS The following statement was issued today by High Commissioner...

Article published in Visions of Ethical Business * I have spoken and written about the Universal Declaration for Human Rights many times in this year of its fiftieth Anniversary. And in preparing this...

It is a great honour for me to have this opportunity to send you a message on the occasion of “Minorities Rights Day”, in celebration of the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of...

MENSAJE DE LA ALTA COMISIONADA PARA LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS, CON MOTIVO DEL INICIO DEL AÑO DEL 50 ANIVERSARIO DE LA DECLARACION UNIVERSAL DE LOS DERECHOS HUMANOS 10 de diciembre de 1997 "Envío este...

SG/SM/6827 HR/4393 10 December 1998 Anniversary of Universal Declaration Said To Mark Half Century Of Human Hope at End of Century of Human Loss, but Long Journey Ahead This is the text of an address...

SG/98/11 10 December 1998 The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced today, in New York, the recipients of the United Nations Human Rights Awards for 1998 at a ceremony held on the...

HR/CT/98/47 9 December 1998 The Human Rights Committee has released its findings concerning nine individual complaints brought before it during its sixty-third session last July, finding some States...

The Paris Meeting: “Human Rights on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century” Paris, 7 December 1998 Excellences, Mesdames et Messieurs, Il y a cinquante ans un groupe d'hommes et de femmes de cultures, de...