6 January 2003 First session of the inter-sessional open-ended working group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances Opening...

6 January 2003 The following statement was issued today by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello: The High Commissioner for Human Rights is deeply concerned over the...

This digest is a compilation of findings of judicial and quasi-judicial bodies of the United Nations and regional organizations on the issue of the protection of human rights in the struggle against...

This compilation has been prepared on the basis of paragraph 14 of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/36, in which OHCHR was requested to prepare a compilation of documents or texts adopted...

OHCHR Annual Reports are published annually and present results achieved by the Office during the reporting period and according to the planned programme set out in the High Commissioner’s Strategic...

This publication forms part of the United Nations’ efforts to integrate human rights into its work. It argues that attention to human rights helps to ensure that the concerns of poor people are...

HR/98/31 29 April 1998 The Chairman of the fifty-fourth session of the Commission on Human Rights, Jacob Selebi of South Africa, condemns in the strongest terms the violent assassination of Monsignor...

HR/98/30 28 April 1998 The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, condemns in the strongest terms the assassination of Monsignor Juan Gerardi Conedera, a courageous defender of human...

Geneva, 24 April 1998 Mr Chairman, I wish to congratulate you and the members of the Commission on the outcome of six weeks of serious deliberation and action across the full spectrum of human rights...

Geneva, 24 April 1998 John Mills, media officer for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the High Commissioner was pleased to announce the confirmation of the appointment of Waly...