This Fact Sheet is intended to provide Governments and a wide range of professionals who frequently come into contact with human rights defenders with a rapid understanding of what a “human rights...

01.04.2004 Commission also Hears from Chairperson of Working Group on Draft Instrument to Protect Persons from Enforced Disappearance The Commission on Human Rights this morning continued with its...

30 June 2003 JOINT UNAIDS and OHCHR Discussion on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights Opening remarks Bertrand Ramcharan, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights I would like to thank our colleagues at UNAIDS...

30 June 2003 The following is the address given Monday morning, 30 June, by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the opening meeting of the 2003 substantive session of the Economic and...

30.06.03 Four Ministerial Round Table Discussions Held to Discuss Integrated Rural Development Strategies The Economic and Social Council this afternoon started its high-level segment on the promotion...

30.06.03 Following is the statement of Gert Rosenthal, the President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), at the opening of the 2003 substantive session of the Council on 30 June at the Palais...

30 June 2003 The following is a joint statement by the Special rapporteurs/representatives, experts and chairpersons of the working groups of the special procedures of the United Nations Commission on...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 30 June 2003 609th Meeting (AM) While the number of States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against...

Geneva, 27 June 2003 The Personal Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights assigned to monitor the human rights situation in Cuba, Christine Chanet, issued an appeal Thursday to the...