30 March 2006 The following statement was issued today by Miloon Kothari, United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living: “In my...

31 March 2006 The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances issued the following statement today: “The United Nations Working Group calls for the adoption of the draft...

30 March 2006 Following his visit to Turkey from 16 to 23 February 2006, the Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, Martin Scheinin, today issued his preliminary report, in which he...

30 March 2006 The following statement was issued today by Miloon Kothari, United Nations Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living: "In my...

29 March 2006 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour urged the Nigerian Government today to immediately transfer former Liberian President Charles Taylor directly to the...

29 March 2006 The following statement was issued today by 7 independent human rights experts of the United Nations: We express our serious concern over the deterioration of the human rights situation...

I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute, through my representative, to the meeting of the Group of Specialists as you address some of the challenging human rights issues raised in the context...