6 January 2003 First session of the inter-sessional open-ended working group on a draft legally binding normative instrument for the protection of all persons from enforced disappearances Opening...

6 January 2003 The following statement was issued today by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello: The High Commissioner for Human Rights is deeply concerned over the...

This digest is a compilation of findings of judicial and quasi-judicial bodies of the United Nations and regional organizations on the issue of the protection of human rights in the struggle against...

This compilation has been prepared on the basis of paragraph 14 of Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/36, in which OHCHR was requested to prepare a compilation of documents or texts adopted...

OHCHR Annual Reports are published annually and present results achieved by the Office during the reporting period and according to the planned programme set out in the High Commissioner’s Strategic...

This publication forms part of the United Nations’ efforts to integrate human rights into its work. It argues that attention to human rights helps to ensure that the concerns of poor people are...

CRC 27th session 31 May 2001 Morning Côte d’Ivoire Has Made Progress in Implementation of Treaty Despite Financial Difficulties, Delegation Says The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning...

CRC 27th session 31 May 2001 Afternoon Expert Notes Problems Concerning AIDS Orphans, Street Children and Child Labour The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon concluded its discussion...

30 May 2001 Voices Concern Over Situation in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia The following statement was issued today by Mary Robinson, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights: “I...

CRC 27th session 29 May 2001 Afternnon Expert Urges Government to Adopt Children and Adolescents Code The Committee on the Rights of the Child this afternoon concluded its discussion with a delegation...