GENEVA – “Despite a well-built international legal framework, torture prevails in many regions of the world and is often accompanied by an alarming degree of impunity,” warned four UN bodies* involved...

GENEVA – “Despite a well-built international legal framework, torture prevails in many regions of the world and is often accompanied by an alarming degree of impunity,” warned four UN bodies* involved...

25 June 2009 UN experts call for enhancing the protection of persons with disabilities A number of independent experts from several United Nations mechanisms,* referring to the first session of the...

26 June 2003 The United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights and Officer in charge of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, approved, on behalf of the...

26 June 2003 In commemoration of the 26 June 2003 United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in its resolution 52/149 of 12...

26 June 2003 The United Nations Committee against Torture, the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on the question of torture, the Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary...

CAT 30th session 15 May 2003 Morning The Committee against Torture met this morning with the Commission on Human Rights' Special Rapporteur on the question of torture to review matters of cooperation...

Commission on Human Rights 59th session 8 April 2004 Morning The Commission on Human Rights this morning heard statements from six Special Rapporteurs and Chairman-Rapporteurs of working groups on...

Fifty-seventh General Assembly Third Committee 30 October 2002 30th Meeting (AM) Opening discussions in the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) on the implementation of human rights...