The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries issued the following statement in Santiago, Chile, on 14 July 2007: Santiago, 14 July 2007: The United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries as...

Ms. Manuela Carmena Castrillo and Ms. Soledad Villagra de Biedermann, members of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the United Nations Human Rights Council, issued the following statement on...

Geneva, 16 July -- The essential importance of economic, social and cultural rights to the international human rights edifice is still in many ways not fully recognized, the High Commissioner told a...

Human Rights Committee 16 July 2007 The Human Rights Committee this morning undertook a second reading of its revised General Comment on article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political...

16 July 2007 Prof. Yakin Ertürk, Special Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences, issued the following statement on 14 July 2007,:...

The Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers of the Human Rights Council, Leandro Despouy, issued the following statement today: Geneva, 13 July 2007: The Special Rapporteur on the...

The Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Mr. Jean Ziegler, and the Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Mr. Ghanim Alnajjar issued the following statement today: Geneva...

Human Rights Committee 12 July 2007 The Human Rights Committee has considered the third report of Sudan on how that State party is implementing the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil...