Human rights

8 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CT/515

CONSOLIDATION OF REPORTS TO TREATY BODIES, POSSIBLE MERGER OF TREATY BODIES TO CONSIDER COMBINED REPORTS DISCUSSED BY HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERTS

19980408 Human Rights Committee Considers Working Methods, Contributions to Fiftieth Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

8 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/848

8 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/849

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONTINUES TO HEAR STATEMENTS ON ROLE OF NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTIONS

19980408 (Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 6 April (UN Information Service) -- United Nations human rights experts spoke this evening to Commission on Human Rights on the situations in Guatemala and Somalia, the status of technical cooperation projects and the plight of internally displaced people.

3 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/844

MEMBERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION WELCOME COMPLETION OF WORK ON DRAFT DECLARATION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS

19980403

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 2 April (UN Information Service) -- Members and observers of the Commission on Human Rights hailed this afternoon the completion after 13 years of work on a draft declaration on the rights and responsibilities of human rights defenders.

3 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/842

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS HEARS ALLEGATIONS OF VIOLATIONS AGAINST PRISONERS, DETAINEES

19980403 (Reissued as received.)

3 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/845

NON-GOVERNMENTAL GROUPS WELCOME COMPLETION OF DRAFT DECLARATION ON PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS, IN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

19980403

(Reissued as received.)

3 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/843

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS CONTINUES DEBATE ON TORTURE, DETENTION, INVOLUNTARY DISAPPEARANCES

19980403

(Reissued as received.)

2 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/840

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS DISCUSSES SITUATION IN COLOMBIA

19980402

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 31 March (UN Information Service) -- The situation in Colombia was the focus of discussion this afternoon, as the Commission on Human Rights received the report of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bogota.

2 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/841

CALLS FOR FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN WORK OF SUBCOMMISSION ON PREVENTION OF DISCRIMINATION AND PROTECTION OF MINORITIES HEARD AT COMMISSION

19980402 Commission Starts Consideration of Human Rights Of Persons Subjected to Detention or Imprisonment, Including Torture

(Reissued as received.)

1 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CT/514

FINLAND SURPASSES EXPECTATIONS IN GUARANTEEING HUMAN RIGHTS, CHAIRMAN OF HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE STATES

19980401 Committee Concludes Consideration of Compliance By Finland with Covenant on Civil, Political Rights