GENEVA (1 December 2009) – “Domestic workers who are overworked, underpaid and subject to abuse — whether physical, emotional or sexual in nature — are effectively being treated as slaves. This form...

Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights 55th session 30 July 2003 Afternoon Sub-Commission Expert Reports on Issues and Modalities for Effective Universality of International...

23 July 2003 Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Economic and Social Council, ladies and gentlemen, The history of the United Nations has offered us one important lesson: we cannot achieve...

2 July 2003 The acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and Haitian authorities have agreed to work together to highlight the two-hundredth anniversary of the slave rebellion that led...