Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights ROUND-UP 23 May 2007 Issues Concluding Observations on Reports of Nepal, Hungary, Netherlands (Antilles), Finland and Latvia The Committee on Economic...

Committee on the Rights of the Child 22 May 2007 The Committee on the Rights of the Child today reviewed the second periodic report of Slovakia on how that country is implementing the provisions of...

Committee on the Rights of the Child 21 May 2007 Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Addresses Meeting The Committee on the Rights of the Child this morning opened its forty-fifth session...

Geneva, 21 May 2007: As we approach the end of the current term of detention of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, I urge the Government of Myanmar to release her and all political prisoners in the country...

Bujumbura, 19 May 2007: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, will visit Burundi from 19-23 May, the second leg of a Central African tour aimed at re-affirming the...

18 May 2007 New York Madam Chairperson, distinguished delegates, representatives of indigenous peoples, friends and colleagues. It is with great pleasure that I address the Permanent Forum on...

The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries issued the following statement in Suva, Fiji, on 18 May 2007: Suva, 18 May 2007: The United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries has conducted...