CRC 32nd session 24 January 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child reviewed today a second periodic report of the Czech Republic, questioning a national delegation on how the country was giving...

10 January 2003 United Nations human rights experts today condemned the assassinations of two prominent Guatemalan indigenous leaders whose bodies were found in December. Hina Jilani, Special...

Distinguished Director General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Members of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations Representatives of Governments and non-governmental...

24 July 2001 TO BE COMMEMORATED AT THE PALAIS DES NATIONS The International Day of the World’s Indigenous People will be commemorated at the Palais des Nations on Thursday, 26 July, with cultural...

Human Rights Committee 72nd session 12 July 2001 Morning Chairperson Offers Preliminary Comments Voicing Concern Over Situation of the Roma Population The Human Rights Committee this morning concluded...

Human Rights Committee 72nd session 11 July 2001 Afternoon Czech Government Unhappy about Special Schools for Roma, Delegation Says A delegation of the Czech Republic this afternoon told the Human...

Human Rights Committee 72nd session 11 July 2001 Morning Special Schools for Roma Children Should Be Abolished as a Sign of Non-Discrimination, Experts Say The Human Rights Committee this morning...

10 July 2001 The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders, Hina Jilani, and the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on extrajudicial, summary or...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women Twenty-fifth Session 9 July 2001 514th and 515th Meetings (AM & PM) Experts on Committee against Discrimination Express Concern; Call for...