Committee on the Rights of the Child MORNING 4 June 2007 The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning reviewed the initial report of Ukraine on how that country is implementing the provisions...

4 June 2007 The Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the situation of Human Rights Defenders, Ms Hina Jilani, will visit the Republic of Indonesia from 5 to 13 June 2007 at the...

Children working in squalid modern-day sweat shops with no hope of access to education, proper care, or a better life; unspeakable violence against girls and boys perpetrated within the “sanctity” of...

Committee on the Rights of the Child 1 June 2007 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the initial reports of Guatemala on how that country is implementing the provisions of the two...

1 June 2007 The Human Rights Council will hold a special meeting on Monday, 4 June to hear an address by Michelle Bachelet, the President of Chile, who will speak about Chile’s position on the...

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...