This publication covers the Committee’s fifty-sixth to sixty-seventh sessions, from March 1996 to March 1999.

On 1 July 2003, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families entered into force. The Convention is a comprehensive international...

OHCHR Annual Reports are published annually and present results achieved by the Office during the reporting period and according to the planned programme set out in the High Commissioner’s Strategic...

29.11.2003 Joint statement by Bertrand Ramcharan, Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights and Paul Hunt, Special Rapporteur on the right to health, on World AIDS Day 2003 HIV/AIDS is a worsening...

28.11.2003 Issues Final Conclusions on Reports of Moldova, Yemen, Guatemala, the Russian Federation and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights...

28 November 2003 The Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iulia Motoc, will visit that country from 29...