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 The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief, Abdelfattah Amor, will visit Romania from 7 to 13 September 2003 at the invitation of the...

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...

23.07.2003 The Board of Trustees of the Voluntary Fund for Technical Cooperation in the Field of Human Rights will hold its nineteenth session from 28 to 30 July 2003 in Geneva. At this meeting, the...

24 July 2003 Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, today delivered the opening address at the annual celebration at the Palais des Nations of the...

23.07.2003 morning Begins Consideration of Human Rights and Indigenous Issues The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this morning began its adoption of texts recommended to it by the Commission on...

23.07.03 afternoon Also Adopts Resolution on Long-term Support for Haiti The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) this afternoon took action on decisions recommended to it in the report of the...

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...

Human Rights Committee 78th session 23 July 2003 The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its consideration, carried out over three meetings, of the third periodic report of El Salvador on...

22.07.2003 The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples will be celebrated at the Palais des Nations on Thursday, 24 July 2003. The official date of observance chosen by the General...