8 February 2005 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour will visit Moscow from 9 to 13 February. The visit, which comes at the invitation of the Russian Government, will focus...

8 February 2005 Prof. Yakin Ertürk, the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights issued the following statement at the...

8 February 2005 The following statement was issued today by nine United Nations human rights experts, whose names appear below: "We are deeply concerned at the actions taken by King Gyanendra of Nepal...

8 February 2005 The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the right to education, Vernor Muñoz, issued the following statement today: The Special Rapporteur attended the fifth World...

7 February 2005 The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Human Rights in Cambodia, Peter Leuprecth, issued the following statement today: In view of the well-documented lack of...

7 February 2005 NAIROBI - At the conclusion of a 13-day mission to Somalia and the region, the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Dr. Ghanim Alnajjar, urged the...

4 February 2005 The following statement was issued today by six United Nations human rights experts, listed below: In January 2005 the detention centre at the United States Naval Base in Guantánamo...

3 February 2005 The Independent Expert on the human rights situation in Somalia, Dr. Ghanim Alnajjar, issued the following statement today: Hargeisa – Zamzam Ahmed Dualeh, a 17-year-old imprisoned on...