Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 28 March 2008 The Human Rights Council this afternoon extended for three years the mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to...

Geneva, 28 March 2008: - - Three UN Special Rapporteurs today issued a joint statement criticizing the provocative nature of a film depicting an extremely distorted vision of Muslims, and urging a...

Human Rights Council MORNING 26 March 2008 The Human Rights Council this morning held a general debate on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, and related forms of intolerance and on the follow...

20 March 2008 Asma Jahangir, the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief of the United Nations Human Rights Council, made the following statement on 20 March 2008 in Delhi at the end of...

18 March The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour called on Tuesday for all states to sign up to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination...

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ROUNDUP 7 March 2008 Issues Concluding Observations on the Reports of Fiji, Italy, the United States, Belgium, Nicaragua, Moldova and the...

27 February 2003 Committee to Consider Reports of Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Fiji, Ghana, Morocco, Poland, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Tunisia and Uganda The Committee on the Elimination...

Islamabad, 25 February 2003 Opening statement by Sergio Vieira de Mello, High Commissioner for Human Rights Eleventh Workshop on Regional Cooperation for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights...

7 February 2003 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello today expressed grave concern over the growing violence in the Ivory Coast, condemning “death squad” activity...