Commission on Human Rights 56th session 12 April 2000 Morning The Commission on Human Rights this morning held a special dialogue on poverty and the enjoyment of human rights in which several speakers...

Commission on Human Rights 56th session 12 April 2000 Evening The Commission on Human Rights completed its annual debate on the rights of children, hearing from an extensive list of non-governmental...

Commission on Human Rights 56th Session Geneva, 22 March 2000 [Translation of advance text] Yesterday my colleague, the Portuguese Foreign Minister, set out in detail the human rights policies of the...

Commission on Human Rights 56th session 11 April 2000 Morning Takes Up Discussion on Rights of the Child, Hears Statement from Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed...

Commission on Human Rights 56th session 11 April 2000 Evening Chairman of Working Group on Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, Special Rapporteur on Same Subject, Address...

Commission on Human Rights 56th session 11 April 2000 Afternoon High Commissioner for Refugees Delivers Address The Commission on Human Rights discussed this afternoon what should be done in response...

As if the writing weren’t already on the wall, the angry scenes at the WTO meeting in Seattle late last year and, to a lesser extent, at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier this year, have made...

10 April 2000 1999 was not a very auspicious year for the rights of women. Gang rape during times of war, an increase in trafficking of women in certain parts of the world, the persistence of domestic...

Commission on Human Rights 56th session 10 April 2000 Afternoon The Commission on Human Rights this afternoon continued its debate on the integration of the human rights of women and the gender...

Commission on Human Rights 56th session 10 April 2000 Morning Speakers Call for Greater Efforts to End Violence, Trafficking A Special Rapporteur on the subject of violence against women told the...