HR/99/24 24 March 1999 The following statement was made today by High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson: “The ruling today by the United Kingdom's highest court in the case of Senator...

HR/CN/99/6 24 March 1999 (p.m.) Working Group Elects Ambassador Diallo of Senegal as Chairperson; High Commissioner for Human Rights Addresses Meeting The sessional Working Group of the Commission on...

Geneva, 24 March 1999 Sessional open-ended working group to review and formulate proposals for the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance...

24 March 1999 1733rd Meeting* (AM) 1732rd meeting was closed First Report to Committee since Democratic Government Replaced Military Regime of General Augusto Pinochet Chile was not afraid to make the...

HR/CN/99/5 24 March 1999 (a.m.) Four Government Ministers Address Commission on Human Rights; Special Rapporteur on Use of Mercenaries Presents Report Sadako Ogata, the United Nations High...

Jose Luis Diaz, Media and Information Officer for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, told correspondents at a noon press briefing that the Commission on Human Rights had met this...

24 March 1999 1734th Meeting (PM) Augusto Pinochet was a lifetime Senator and had parliamentary immunity -- he could only be deprived of that immunity by a court and not Parliament, Claudio Troncoso...

HR/CN/99/3 23 March 1999 (a.m.) A series of Ministers and Deputy Ministers spoke this morning before the Commission on Human Rights, variously describing their nations' efforts to respect fundamental...

55TH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS (GENEVA, 22 MARCH - 30 APRIL 1999) GENEVA, 23 MARCH 1999 I have the honour to speak to you today on behalf of the European Union. The Central and Eastern...

HR/CT/525 23 March 1999 1731st Meeting (AM) The Human Rights Committee this morning concluded its review of a draft general comment on article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political...