22 June, 2005 GENEVA – United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour and High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres today urged the Kyrgyz Government to allow all Uzbek asylum...

16 June 2005 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour today welcomed the 14 June ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice of Argentina invalidating two amnesty laws that shielded...

14 June 2005 A team from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has arrived in Kyrgyzstan to look into events in Andijan, in neighbouring Uzbekistan, last month...

Toronto, 13 June 2005 I am very pleased to be with you today and honoured to have been selected the Club’s ‘Distinguished Canadian of 2004’. I am told that I was chosen in recognition of my ‘long and...

10 June 2005 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has established a fact-finding mission to look into allegations of human rights violations in Togo between 5 February and 5...

3 June 2005 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour today strongly condemned attacks by groups on the civilian population in the villages of Guitrozon and Petit Duékoué in...

1 June 2005 High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour today welcomed the endorsement by the Guatemalan legislature of an agreement on the opening of a United Nations human rights office in the...