The Representative of the Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons issued the following statement today: The Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights...

The Chairman of the sixty-first session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Makarim Wibisono, today announced the appointment of a number of experts to occupy positions in fact-finding...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour today announced the appointment of Gay McDougall as the Independent expert on minority issues. The United Nations Commission for Human...

Armed elements in the Sudanese region of Darfur, including law enforcement officers and the military, continue to perpetrate rape and sexual violence, with authorities seemingly unable or unwilling to...

27 July 2005 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour said today she was extremely concerned over the presence of Uzbek officials outside a detention centre in western...

Human Rights Committee 27 July 2005 The Human Rights Committee this morning continued its deliberations on a revised General Comment on article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political...

Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 27 July 2005 Non-Governmental Organizations Decry Human Rights Violations Around the World The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and...

Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 26 July 2005 The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights this afternoon discussed two working papers on the work...

26 July 2005 The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, will visit South Africa at the invitation of the Government...