The subject of the first study will be equal opportunities for women’s active and meaningful participation in the development process, including in decision-making. It will be focused on an analysis...

HR/CRC/99/51 30 September 1999 COMMEMORATIVE MEETING HELD ON TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CONVENTION ON RIGHTS OF CHILD Children Request World Children's Parliament A commemorative meeting on the tenth...

HR/CRC/99/50 29 September 1999 COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD OFFERS PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON REPORT OF MALI The Committee on the Rights of the Child offered preliminary conclusions and...

AFTERNOON HR/CRC/99/49 28 September 1999 Committee on Rights of Child continues review of report of Mali Delegation highlights problems of street begging, excision, polygamy The Committee on the...

HR/CRC/99/48 28 September 1999 Committee on Rights of Child begins consideration of report of Mali The Committee on the Rights of the Child began consideration this morning of an initial report of...

Sounding the Century Lecture By Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights “Meeting the Challenge of Human Rights” London, 23 September 1999 Ladies and Gentlemen, The theme of...

HR/CRC/99/46 27 September 1999 Government Delegation Cites Problems with Poverty, Sex Exploitation, Drug Trafficking The Committee on the Rights of the Child began consideration this morning on a...

HR/CN/99/70 27 September 1999 SPECIAL SESSION OF COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON EAST TIMOR Requests Secretary-General to Create International Commission of Inquiry; Indonesia, Others...

HR/CRC/99/47 27 September 1999 COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF REPORT OF MEXICO Mexican Government officials told the Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon that...

MORNING HR/CRC/99/44 24 September 1999 Corporal Punishment An Accepted Traditional Practice to Correct Misbehaviour by Children, Delegation says The Committee on the Rights of the Child began...