Human rights

9 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CT/516

9 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/847

GUATEMALA VICE-MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, CITING PROGRESS, CALLS FOR END OF CONSIDERATION BY HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF SITUATION IN HIS COUNTRY

19980409 Commission Hears Reports on Situations in Haiti, Cambodia; Discusses Violence Against Women, Role of National Human Rights Institutions

(Reissued as received.)

9 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CT/517

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SIXTY-SECOND SESSION AT HEADQUARTERS

19980409

The Human Rights Committee this afternoon recommended a series of specific measures to promote implementation of the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights in Cyprus, Finland, Uruguay and Zimbabwe, four States parties of the Covenant, as it concluded its sixty-second session.

9 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/851

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS EXPRESSES CONCERN AT GROWING RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA AGAINST MIGRANT WORKERS

19980409 Adopts Resolutions on Unilateral Coercive Measures, Illicit Dumping of Toxic Waste, Indigenous Populations, Structural Adjustment Policies

(Reissued as received.)

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.

8 April 1998

Press Release
HR/CN/846

"HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS" DECLARATION APPROVED BY COMMISSION AFTER 13 YEARS OF DRAFTING

19980408 Commission Adopts Resolutions Regarding Death Penalty; Convention against Genocide, International Covenants and Treaty Bodies

(Reissued as received.)

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.)