Bismillahi Arrahman Arrahim Your Ladyship, Madame Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights, Excellencies, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Distinguished Experts, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a...

MORNING HR/ESC/98/41 27 November 1998 Government Delegation Asked to Explain Cuts in Social Assistance, Increased Poverty Rates Members of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...

MORNING HR/ESC/98/39 26 November 1998 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights reviewed draft texts this morning of general comments on "benchmarks" and on national institutions for human...

AFTERNOON HR/ESC/98/40 26 November 1998 Government Delegation Queried on Lack of Applicability of Covenant, Effects of Deficit-Reduction Regime Canadian Government officials were queried this...

HR/98/91 26 November 1998 The Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights will hold its tenth session from 30 November to 3 December 1998 in Geneva...

HR/98/90 25 November 1998 The following statement was made today by High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson: The decision handed down today by the House of Lords on the Pinochet case will...

MORNING HR/ESC/98/37 25 November 1998 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights began this morning a first reading of a draft general comment on "Domestic application of the International...

AFTERNOON HR/ESC/98/38 25 November 1998 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights carried on this afternoon with the drafting of a proposed general comment on the domestic application of...

HR/98/89 24 November 1998 The following statement was issued today by High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson: I was deeply saddened to learn of the murder last Friday of Galina Vasileyvna...

AFTERNOON HR/ESC/98/36 24 November 1998 Government Delegation Queried on Efforts to Reduce Violence Against Women, Trafficking, Child Sexual Abuse German Government officials told the Committee on...