AFTERNOON 2 August 2010 Committee Adopts Revised Agenda and Programme of Work The Human Rights Council Advisory Committee this afternoon continued its discussion on the draft principles and guidelines...

2 August 2010 Distinguished members of the Committee, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Geneva on the occasion of the seventy- seventh session of the Committee on the...

2 August 2010 Distinguished members of the Committee, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to welcome you to Geneva on the occasion of the seventy- seventh session of the Committee on the...

2 August 2010 Distinguished Members of the Human Rights Council Advisory Committee, Madam Chairperson, Ms. Kran, Director of the Research and Right to Development Division of the Office of the High...

This publication reviews the extent to which and how human rights are reflected in national Millennium Development Goal-based strategies and reports in a number of Asian and African countries. It is...

This jointly issued Fact Sheet starts by explaining what the right to water is, illustrates what it means for specific individuals and groups, and then elaborates upon State obligations with respect...

Security Council 30 May 2003 4764th Meeting* (AM) Resolution 1484 (2003) Adopted Unanimously The Security Council this morning authorized the establishment until 1 September of an Interim Emergency...

30 May 2003 The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, will visit...

CRC 33rd session 30 May 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of Jamaica on how that country was implementing the provisions of the Convention on...

30 May 2003 Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, reiterates his welcome of France's intention to deploy troops in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic...