Background Release

SUBCOMMISSION ON PROMOTION AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

TO MEET IN GENEVA, 28 JULY TO 15 AUGUST

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 24 July (UN Information Service) -- The Subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, the Commission on Human Rights' principal subsidiary organ, will hold its fifty-fifth session at the Palais des Nations in Geneva from 28 July to 15 August.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONSIDERS CIVIL AND POLITICAL SITUATION IN EL SALVADOR

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GENEVA, 23 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its consideration, carried out over three meetings, of the third periodic report of El Salvador on how that country implements the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE REVIEWS THIRD PERIODIC REPORT FROM PORTUGAL

ON THE COUNTRY'S CIVIL AND POLITICAL SITUATION

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GENEVA, 21 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee this afternoon concluded its one-day dialogue with a government delegation from Portugal on how that country was giving effect to the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE REVIEWS SITUATION OF CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS IN SLOVAKIA

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GENEVA, 18 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee has concluded its consideration of the second periodic report of Slovakia on its compliance with the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE OPENS SEVENTY-EIGHTH SESSION

Hears Statement by Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights

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GENEVA, 14 July (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee, charged with monitoring the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, started this morning its four-week summer session by hearing a statement by the Acting High Commissioner for Human Rights, Bertrand

Background Release

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD SEVENTY-EIGHTH SESSION

IN GENEVA FROM 14 JULY TO 8 AUGUST

Experts to Examine Reports of Slovakia, Portugal, El Salvador and Israel

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UN RIGHTS EXPERTS CALL FOR RESPECT OF LIBERTIES IN ANTI-TERROR MEASURES

GENEVA, 30 June (UN Information Service) -- The following is a joint statement by the Special Rapporteurs/Representatives, Experts and Chairpersons of the Working Groups of the special procedures of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights:

DEPUTY HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS APPROVES ABOUT

$7.2 MILLION IN GRANTS FOR TORTURE SURVIVORS

GENEVA, 25 June (UN Information Service) -- 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 Secretary-General, grants amounting to about $7.2 million to organizations supporting survivors of torture.

JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED ON UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DAY

IN SUPPORT OF VICTIMS OF TORTURE

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON ISRAELI PRACTICES TO VISIT EGYPT, JORDAN AND SYRIA

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GENEVA, 10 June (UN Information Service) -- The Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the occupied territories will visit Egypt, Jordan and Syria from 13 to 24 June.