Human rights

10 December 1997

Press Release
HR/4348
PI/1046

HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENTS AT UNITED NATIONS MARK BEGINNING OF YEAR-LONG OBSERVANCE OF FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATION

19971210 Importance of Efforts towards Global Implementation Stressed By Secretary-General, Assembly President, First Lady of United States

9 December 1997

Press Release
HR/4346
OBV/33

IN HUMAN RIGHTS DAY MESSAGE, HIGH COMMISSIONER SAYS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION MUST BE GIVEN PRACTICAL EFFECT

19971209 Following is a message by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, on the occasion of Human Rights Day, 10 December:

9 December 1997

Press Release
HR/4345

8 December 1997

Press Release
HR/4344
PI/1045

HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UNIVERSAL, INDIVISIBLE, INTERDEPENDENT, SECRETARY-GENERAL STRESSES IN VIDEO MESSAGE TO INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISTS' ROUND TABLE

19971208 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Says Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Is 'a Living Document', Calls for Rededication to Its Tenets

25 November 1997

Press Release
HR/4342

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE CONCLUDES NINETEENTH SESSION GENEVA, 10-21 NOVEMBER

19971125 Reports of Cyprus, Argentina, Portugal, Switzerland, Cuba and Spain Considered

17 November 1997

Press Release
HR/4341

REPORTS FROM SEVEN COUNTRIES TO BE REVIEWED AT NEW SESSION OF COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS

19971117 Background Release Dominican Republic, Luxembourg, Iraq, United Kingdom, Azerbaijan, Uruguay, St. Vincent to Advise on Compliance with International Covenant

12 November 1997

Press Release
HR/CT/500

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SIXTH-FIRST SESSION

19971112

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 7 November (UN Information Service) -- The Human Rights Committee ended its autumn session today by issuing a series of specific measures to promote the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Senegal, Jamaica, Iraq, Sudan, Belarus and Lithuania.

6 November 1997

Press Release
HR/4340

COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE TO HOLD NINETEENTH SESSION GENEVA, 10 - 21 NOVEMBER

19971106 Background Release Reports by Cyprus, Argentina, Portugal, Switzerland, Cuba and Spain To Be Considered

21 October 1997

Press Release
HR/CT/499

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONER SAYS 'MASSIVE, WIDESPREAD VIOLATIONS' STILL NEED INTENSE SCRUTINY OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY

19971021 Committee Begins Session, Concerned at Withdrawal by Democratic People's Republic of Korea from Civil and Political Rights Covenant

20 October 1997

Press Release
HR/CN/814
BIO/3112