Excellencies, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to address the fourteenth session of the Working Group on the Right to Development. As we commemorate the twentieth...

No real development without human rights By Navi Pillay According to the latest UN Human Development Report, the number of malnourished people in the world increased from 850 million in 1980 to 1...

19 September 2007 The Working Group on the right to development of the United Nations Human Rights Council has elected Arjun Sengupta of India as its Chairperson-Rapporteur. The Working Group elected...

1. The process on the right to development is moving slowly from generalities to specifics, from vagueness to clarity, from claims to proposals, and in one word from the conceptual to the operational...

Geneva, 15 February 2005 Palais des Nations Room XVII Chairperson Ambassador Salama, Distinguished delegates and dear colleagues, Allow me first of all to thank you for giving me the opportunity to...

CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Distinguished delegates, Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to welcome to all of you to this session of the Working Group on the Right to Development. The work...

Commission on Human Rights MORNING 23 March 2004 Independent Expert, Chairperson-Rapporteur of Working Group on Right to Development Present Reports The proposal to create a high-level Task Force to...

09.02.2004 Distinguished experts, Thank you for agreeing to participate in this High level seminar on "Global Partnership for Development" which we have organized at the request of the Commission on...

Commission on Human Rights 59th session 26 March 2003 Morning The Commission on Human Rights started this morning its debate on the right to development, hearing statements from the Independent Expert...