3 October 2003 The Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the question of torture, Theo van Boven, will be undertaking a fact-finding mission to Spain from 6 to 10...

1 October 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of Georgia on how that country was implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of...

30 September 2003 This Commission is an important body and we must all do what we can to strengthen it and to increase the impact of its work. The last time we met in this one-day format our late High...

30 September 2003 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of Bangladesh on how that country was implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights...

29 August 2003 Following is the statement delivered by Ms. Louise Fréchette, Deputy Secretary-General, at the Palais des Nations on the occasion of the ceremony for the victims of the attack of the...

29 August 2003 The acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, condemns the shocking act of terrorism that claimed the life of Ayatollah Mohamed Baker al-Hakim and...