22 November 2004 Dear Colleagues and friends, This is my first opportunity to meet many of you as High Commissioner for Human Rights. I would like first of all to let you know how much importance I...

16 November 2004 Director-General, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Colleagues, Thank you, Director-General, for hosting this launch and for your words of support for the work of the United Nations...

16 November 2004 Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, and Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, today participated in the...

Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 55th session 31 July 2003 Morning The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights this morning continued to discuss...

Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 55th session 29 July 2003 Morning Issues brought to the attention of the Sub-Commission by several NGOs included the situation of the...

25 July 2003 Adopts Texts on INSTRAW, Information and Communication Technologies, Ad Hoc Group on Guinea-Bissau, Israeli Occupation GENEVA, 24 July (UN Information Service) -- The Economic and Social...

24 July 2003 The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the Commission on Human Rights' principal subsidiary organ, will hold its fifty-fifth session at the Palais des Nations...

24 July 2003 Approves Suspension of Consultative Status of Reporters sans frontières with United Nations System for One Year after Extended Debate GENEVA, 24 July (UN Information Service) -- The...

21 July 2003 Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, today opened a Seminar on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights at the Palais de Nations. The...

Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women 628th Meeting (PM) Having considered reports of eight States parties to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination...