18 October 2005 Dr. Arjun Sengupta, Independent Expert of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the question of human rights and extreme poverty, will visit the United States of America at...

18 October 2005 The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights issued the following statement today: The Special Rapporteur on the...

Human Rights Committee 18 October 2005 The Human Rights Committee has considered the fifth periodic report of Canada on how that State party is implementing the provisions of the International...

Poverty is the greatest human rights challenge of our time. While progress has been made in some parts of the world, the overall picture remains abysmal: more than 2.5 billion people subsist on less...

Mme Chairperson, Distinguished members of the Committee, Ladies and gentlemen, It is my pleasure to welcome you to Geneva and to address you on the occasion of the eighty-fifth session of the Human...

17 October 2005 The Representative of the United Nations Secretary General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) issued the following statement following a mission to Southern...

Human Rights Committee 17 October 2005 The Human Rights Committee, which reviews the implementation of the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its 153 States...

16 October 2005 World Food Day is an occasion to highlight a number of current issues of concern in relation to hunger across the world. In accordance with my mandate as Special Rapporteur on the...

14 October 2005 The Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Ambeyi Ligabo, issued the...