19 June 2003 Legal and human rights experts meeting in Geneva have presented acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan with groundbreaking draft legislation for use...

19 June 2003 A vast majority of speakers expressed support for drafting a convention on the rights of persons with disabilities during the session of the General Assembly committee established to...

Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Measures Mr Chairman, Distinguished Committee Members. 1. I appear before you as the representative of the Human Rights Committee, the body established under the...

18 June 2003 The following is the statement delivered by acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan at a public hearing organized by the Office of the Prosecutor of...

18 June 2003 FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf Will Open Meeting ROME, 18 June (FAO) -- In technical cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), an International Conference on the...

Vienna, 17 June 2003 ANTI-SEMITISM: A CONTINUING HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERN Address by Mr. Bertrand Ramcharan, United Nations Deputy High Commissioner of Human Rights, Ladies and Gentlemen: When the United...

16 June 2003 Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan, currently acting as High Commissioner, warmly welcomed the swearing in today at The Hague of Luis Moreno Ocampo as the first...

16 June 2003 The Secretary-General appointed today five independent eminent experts to follow up, together with the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the implementation of the Declaration and...

16 June 2003 OPENING STATEMENT BY MR. BERTRAND RAMCHARAN ACTING HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS TWENTY-EIGHTH SESSION OF THE WORKING GROUP ON CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF SLAVERY 16 – 20 June 2003...