26 January 2004 The acting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, has condemned the murder of Cambodian trade-union leader Chea Vichea and appealed to the Cambodian...

States Parties Support Two Chamber Proposal for Committee 23 January 2004 The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning exchanged views with representatives of States parties to the Convention...

22 January 2004 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the initial report of Papua New Guinea on that country’s efforts to implement the provisions of the Convention on the Rights...

Summary This report is an account of the second (9-15 April) and third (23 October-5 November) visits made to Haiti in 2003 by the independent expert, Mr. Louis Joinet. The institutional crisis in the...

22.01.2004 The Special Rapporteur on the freedom of opinion and expression, Ambeyi Ligabo, and the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Asma Jahangir, have expressed...

22 January 2004 The Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Ambeyi Ligabo, will visit...

21.04.2004 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of India on how that country was complying with provisions of the Convention on the Rights of the Child...

19.01.2004 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today considered the second periodic report of the Netherlands, as well as the initial report of Aruba, on how the State party was giving effect to...