Human Rights Council MORNING 17 June 2008 Ends Discussion on Follow-up and Implementation of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action The Human Rights Council this morning held a general debate...

16 June 2008 GENEVA—The Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Yakin Ertürk, and the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment...

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 17 June 2008 The Human Rights Council this afternoon held an interactive dialogue with the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti, followed by a...

Human Rights Council MORNING 16 June 2008 Council Holds Interactive Dialogue with Special Rapporteur, then General Debate on Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories United Nations...

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 16 June 2008 Concludes General Debate on Human Rights Situation in Palestine and Other Occupied Arab Territories The Human Rights Council this afternoon held a general...

Human Rights Council MORNING 13 June 2008 The Human Rights Council this morning adopted the outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review process on the reports on Sri Lanka, France and Tonga. Rajiva...

Human Rights Council AFTERNOON 13 June 2008 Holds General Debate on Universal Periodic Review The Human Rights Council this afternoon adopted the outcomes of the Universal Periodic Review process on...

13 June 2008 By approving the Optional Protocol to the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on June 18, the United Nations took an important step to correct the...

13 June 2008 GENEVA-- The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Mr. Philip Alston, will undertake a country visit to the United States of America from 16...

12 June 2008 GENEVA -- The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, welcomed Thursday's decision by the United States Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush that the U.S. Constitution...