HR/00/8 31 January 2000 HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS SAYS REPORT OF EAST TIMOR INQUIRY IMPORTANT STEP AGAINST IMPUNITY United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson today...

HR/00/9 31 January 2000 SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT CALLS ON THE FARC OF COLOMBIA TO HONOUR COMMITMENTS ON RECRUITMENT OF CHILDREN The Special...

28-01-2000 Message of the High Commissioner on Adoption of Text of Draft Optional Protocol on Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict The world is today one step closer to sparing its children the...

HR/CRC/00/23 28 January 2000 COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD CONCLUDES TWENTY-THIRD SESSION Issues Final Observations and Recommendations on Reports of India, Sierra Leone, Costa Rica, the former...

HR/00/7 28 January 2000 UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER PAKISTAN ORDER CALLING ON JUDGES TO TAKE FRESH OATH The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human...

UN, business, civil society linked by web site, opening 28 January in Davos (NEW YORK/DAVOS, 28 January) The most ambitious effort to date to establish a working relationship between international...

MORNING HR/CRC/00/22 26 January 2000 COMMITTEE ON RIGHTS OF CHILD URGES SOUTH AFRICA TO TAKE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION TO RAISE LIVING CONDITIONS OF CERTAIN PARTS OF POPULATION The Committee on the Rights of...

International Forum on the Holocaust, Stockholm, 26-28 January 2000 HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TELLS FORUM ON HOLOCAUST WORLD CANNOT FIGHT RACISM UNLESS IT LEARNS LESSONS OF PAST The following...