Human Rights Council Advisory Committee BACKGROUND RELEASE 31 July 2008 The first session of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee will be held from 4 to 15 August 2008, in Room XIX of the...

Geneva: - -At the invitation of the Government of Myanmar, the United Nations Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur on the Situation of human rights in Myanmar, Tomás Ojea Quintana, will conduct his...

31 July 2008 GENEVA--. Pakistani lawyer Shaheen Sardar Ali has been appointed member of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and will assume her new functions on 1 August 2008. Ms. Shaheen Sardar...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 31 July 2008 The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has considered the combined sixth to seventeenth periodic report of Togo on...