Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Second Session 13 May 2003 3rd & 4th Meetings (AM & PM) Indigenous groups stressed the need for disaggregated ethnic data, increased Secretariat funding and closer...

CESCR 30th session 13 May 2003 The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today started its review of a third periodic report from Iceland by hearing a Government delegation say that the...

13 May 2003 An independent expert body has found violations of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in five countries. The Human Rights Committee, the panel that monitors how...

Security Council 13 May 2003 4754th Meeting (PM) Determining that the situation in Côte d’Ivoire was a threat to international peace and security in the region, the Security Council today decided to...

13 May 2003 The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Professor Iulia Motoc, is profoundly alarmed about the serious situation of the civilian...

CAT 30th session 13 May 2003 Morning The Committee against Torture offered its conclusions and recommendations this morning on the second periodic report of Iceland, noting that it had not received...

CAT 30th session 12 May 2003 Morning The Committee against Torture held a meeting this morning with representatives of States parties to the Convention against Torture to allow Government officials to...