At the end of this summer, a meeting of Government experts will be held in Geneva to discuss the issue of the emblems used to
In its final week, the 1999 UN Commission on Human Rights adopted a resolution on the right to democracy. The international community has affirmed for
The General Assembly has set 15 July 1999 as the target date for an unprecedented meeting of the states that have signed the Fourth Geneva
On the final day of the UN Commission on Human Rights, Mary Robinson, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, criticized NATO’s use of force
Last Friday, 22 members of the Commission on Human Rights passed a no-action motion, blocking a US-backed resolution on the situation of human rights in
This year’s UN Commission on Human Rights is more than halfway finished. Structural problems and political gamesmanship may preclude the Commission from really fulfilling its
The 55th Session of the UN Commission on Human Rights opened in Geneva on Monday with the election of Irish Ambassador Anne Anderson as Chairman.
The 55th session of the annual United Nations Commission on Human Rights will take place in Geneva from March 22 – April 30. The Commission
Late last year, the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda placed a temporary moratorium on hiring any more court-appointed French and Canadian defense lawyers. At
Amnesty International’s report to the upcoming UN Commission on Human Rights calls on the Commission to give priority attention to countries where human rights abuses
The world’s reluctance to act in the face of continuing military aggression in Kosovo prompts a consideration of the evolution in the legitimacy of the
In the past month, China has committed several widely-reported human rights violations. Xu Wenli, Qin Yongmin, and Wang Yucai were sentenced to 13, 12, and