By Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights February 6, 2007 On February 6, the landmark International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance...

6 February 2007 A new international treaty outlawing enforced disappearances and upholding the right of victims to know the truth about the circumstances and fate of those disappeared was officially...

Annex 1 of the report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living, A/HRC/4/18

5 Feburary 2007 The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) will visit El Salvador from 5 to 7 February where it will visit the capital, San Salvador, to discuss...

Statement on Gaza by the United Nations Agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territory We the United Nations Agencies working in the occupied Palestinian territory are extremely alarmed by the...

5 February 2007 The Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination issued the following statement...

5 February 2007 Vernor Muñoz, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the right to education, will visit Malaysia at the invitation of the Government from 5 to 14 February...

2 February 2007 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has expressed concern that the national stability plan passed by Afghanistan’s lower house of Parliament, the “Wolesi...