Human Rights Committee

Eighty-Third Session

2258^th & 2259^th Meetings (AM & PM)

Changes to Iceland’s penal code aimed at combating terrorism

 

focus of debate in human rights committee

Human Rights Committee

Eighty-third Session

2256^th & 2257^th Meetings (AM & PM)

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CONSIDERATION OF KENYA’S REPORT

ON COMPLIANCE WITH COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS

Experts Press for Greater Resolve by Government Regarding Troubling

Reports of Prisoner Mistreatment, Violence against Women, Forced Evictions

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS OPENS SIXTY-FIRST SESSION

 

High Commissioner for Human Rights Says Commission Is One

Embodiment of Collective Responsibility to Promote and Protect Human Rights

(Reissued as received.)

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF UN VOLUNTARY FUND ON CONTEMPORARY

 

FORMS OF SLAVERY CONCLUDES TENTH SESSION

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 14 March (UN Information Service) -- The Board of Trustees of the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery concluded its tenth session on Friday, 11 March.

HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TO HOLD EIGHTY-THIRD SESSION

 

IN NEW YORK FROM 14 MARCH TO 1 APRIL 2005

 

Experts to Review Reports of Kenya, Iceland, Mauritius, Uzbekistan, Greece

(Reissued as received.)

Background Release

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS TO HOLD SIXTY-FIRST SESSION

 

AT PALAIS DES NATIONS FROM 14 MARCH TO 22 APRIL 2005

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 10 March (UN Information Service) -- The principal human rights organ of the United Nations, the Commission on Human Rights, will conduct its annual six-week session for 2005 from 14 March to 22 April.

ARAB COUNTRIES TO MEET IN CAIRO FROM 6 – 8 MARCH TO DISCUSS STRENGTHENING

NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 4 March (UN Information Service) -- Representatives of national institutions, governments and civil society from throughout the Arab region will meet in Cairo from 6 to 8 March to discuss establishing or strengthening national institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF UNITED NATIONS VOLUNTARY FUND

 

FOR INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS CONCLUDES 18th SESSION

 

(Reissued as received.)

EXPERTON HUMAN RIGHTS IN DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA ENDS VISIT TO JAPAN

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 4 March (UN Information Service) -- The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Vitit Muntarbhorn, issued the following statement in Tokyo on 3 March at the end of his visit to Japan which started on 24 February:

INDEPENDENT EXPERTS CALL FOR RENEWED EFFORTS TO COMBAT CONTINUING

 

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM, LARGE-SCALE XENOPHOBIA

(Reissued as received.)

GENEVA, 24 February (UN Information Service) -- A panel of Eminent Experts has expressed profound concern about continuing institutional and large-scale manifestations of racism and xenophobia.