For the past 18 years, United Nations human rights treaty bodies and special procedures have documented widespread violations of the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)...

8 April 2003 [unofficial transcript] Opening Statement by Mr. Sergio Vieira de Mello High Commissioner for Human Rights “Violence against women-what next?” an event co-organized by OHCHR and the NGO...

Commission on Human Rights 59th session 8 April 2004 Afternoon National delegations speaking before the Commission on Human Rights this afternoon described efforts to provide the full range of civil...

SC/7722 8 April 2003 Following is today’s press statement on the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Security Council President Adolfo Aguilar Zinser (Mexico): Members of the Security Council...

Human Rights Committee 77th session 1 April 2003 Morning The Human Rights Committee this morning concluded its first reading of a draft General Comment on article 2 of the International Covenant on...