2 March 2001 Background Release The Commission on the Status of Women will open its forty-fifth session on Tuesday, 6 March, at United Nations Headquarters, focusing on two thematic issues: Women...

6 March 2001 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson said today that she has written again to President Robert Mugabe drawing his attention to international concern over...

2 March 2001 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson today welcomed China’s decision to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Speaking in...

2 March 2001 BACKGROUND RELEASE Committee to consider reports of Algeria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Japan, Portugal and Sudan The Committee on the Elimination of Racial...

28 February 2001 The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Dato' Param Cumaraswamy, today issued the following statement: “I have been following the developments in Zimbabwe...

1 March 2001 International Mechanisms for Promoting Freedom of Expression JOINT STATEMENT ON RACISM AND THE MEDIA by The UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the OSCE...