23 March 1998 Madame Chairperson, Distinguished Members of the Committee, I am sending this message from my temporary office next to the room where the Commission on Human Rights is beginning the...

HR/98/18 23 March 1998 The following is a statement issued today by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson: I am deeply worried by reports from the Mbandaka region of the...

HR/CERD/98/31 20 March 1998 During an intensive three-week session, the Committee examined reports from Armenia, Cambodia, Cameroon, the Czech Republic, Israel, Lebanon, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya...

HR/98/17 20 March 1998 United Nations officials and human-rights experts urged continued action and renewed commitment against bias this afternoon at a roundtable marking the International Day for the...

20 March 1998 John Mills, media officer for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Mrs. Robinson's programme for today included meetings with the Secretary for Relations with...

54th session of the Commission on Human Rights, Geneva, 20 March 1998 Statement by Mr. Hannu Halinen, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the...

54th session of the Commission on Human Rights 16 March - 24 April 1998 Address by Mrs Lena Hjelm- Wallén Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs 20 March 1998 Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, The...

HR/CERD/98/30 20 March 1998 Adopts Conclusions on Situation in Saint Lucia The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination this morning urged Cambodia to bring to an end the impunity of...

54th session of the Commission on Human Rights 16 March - 24 April 1998 Statement by Dr. Valdis Birkavs Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia Geneva, 19 March 1998 Mr. Chairman, High...

Geneva, 19 March 1998 I am very pleased to address this Commission for the first time, and to introduce the ?Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights? and my interim report on...