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OHCHR News Archive 1994 - 2013
Use the form below to search for OHCHR news published from 1994 through 2013.(For more recent news, see the
News Search: 2013-present
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Afghanistan
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Andorra
Angola
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China
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
Denmark
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Mexico
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Nigeria
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Occupied Palestinian Territory
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Portugal
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Republic of Korea
Republic of Moldova
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
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Serbia
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Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
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Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
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Thailand
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
United Republic of Tanzania
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Mandate
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Administration
Advisory Services and Technical Cooperation
Article 14 (Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination)
Article 22 (Convention against Torture)
Business and Human Rights
CoI
CoIDPRK
CoIEritrea
CoIGaza
Combating discrimination based on religion or belief
Commission on Human Rights
Commission on the Status of Women
Committee against Torture
Committee on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
Committee on Enforced Disappearance
Committee on Migrant Workers
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Cooperation with UN human rights bodies
Coordination Committee of Special Procedures
Cultural rights
Death penalty
Decade for Human Rights Education
Decade of the World's Indigenous People
Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination
Democracy and Human Rights
Discimination
Durban Review Conference
ECOSOC resolution 1503 (XLVIII)
Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs
Executive Committee on Humanitarian Affairs
Executive Committee on Peace and Security
Fiftieth Anniversary of the UDHR
First Optional Protocol to the ICCPR
Fund for Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination
Fund for Indigenous Populations
Fund for Technical Cooperation
Fund for the Decade of the World's Indigenous People
Fund for Victims of Torture
Fund on Slavery
Fund-raising
Global Migration Group
Globalization and human rights
good governance
Group of Experts on the Right to Development
High Commissioner for Human Rights
HIV/AIDS and human rights
Human rights and climate change
Human rights and forensic science
Human rights and mass exoduses
Human rights and thematic procedures
Human Rights Committee
Human Rights Council
Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
Human rights in Chechnya of the Russian Federation
Human rights in Cyprus
Human rights in East Timor
Human rights in Estonia and Latvia
Human rights in Kosovo
Human rights in Kosovo (HC)
Human rights in occupied Arab territories-Palestine
Human rights in southern Lebanon and western Bekaa
Human rights in the occupied Syrian Golan
Human Rights Inquiry Commission in Occupied Territories
Human rights of people with disabilities
Human rights of youth
Human rights on the PNG island of Bougainville
Independent expert for the United Nations study on violence against children
Independent expert of the S-G on Guatemala
Independent expert of the S-G on Haiti
Independent expert older persons
Independent Expert on human rights and extreme poverty
Independent expert on human rights and international solidarity
Independent Expert on human rights and the environment
Independent Expert on Mali
Independent Expert on Minorities
Independent Expert on sexual orientation and gender identity
Independent expert on Somalia
Independent expert on structural adjustment policies and foreign debt
Independent expert on technical cooperation and advisory services in Liberia
Independent expert on the effects of foreign debt
Independent Expert on the enjoyment of human rights by persons with albinism
Independent Expert on the issue of human rights obligations related to access to safe drinking water and sanitation
Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
Independent expert on the right to development
Independent expert on the right to restitution
Independent expert on the situation of human rights in Burundi
Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Central African Republic
Independent expert on the situation of human rights in Côte d’Ivoire
Independent expert to examine the existing international criminal and human rights framework for the protection of persons from enforced or involuntary disappearance
Independent expert to examine the question of a draft optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights
Independent expert to examine the question of a draft optional protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Indicators to promote and monitor the implementation of human rights
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
Invitations
Islamic perspectives on the UDHR
Meeting of Chairpersons of the Treaty Bodies
Meeting of Special Rapporteurs
Migration and Human Rights
Millennium Development Goals
Minorities
National institutions on human rights
National plans of action
Older persons
Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Others
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Personal Representative of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the situation in Cuba
Post_2015
Question of enforced or involuntary disappearances
Rape and abuse of women in Former Yugoslavia
Representative of the S-G on children in armed conflict
Representative of the S-G on human rights defenders
Representative of the S-G on internally displaced persons
Right to development
Right to Privacy in the digital age
Rio20
Rule of law
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Sp. Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
Sp. Rapporteur on former Yugoslavia
Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of expression
Sp. Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief
Sp. Rapporteur on independence of judges and lawyers
Sp. Rapporteur on Iraq
Sp. Rapporteur on Myanmar
Sp. Rapporteur on Nigeria
Sp. Rapporteur on occupied Palestine
Sp. Rapporteur on Racial Discrimination
Sp. Rapporteur on religious intolerance
Sp. Rapporteur on Rwanda
Sp. Rapporteur on Sudan
Sp. Rapporteur on summary executions
Sp. Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to education
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
Sp. Rapporteur on the right to food
Sp. Rapporteur on the sale of children
Sp. Rapporteur on torture
Sp. Rapporteur on toxic wastes
Sp. Rapporteur on use of mercenaries
Sp. Rapporteur on violence against women
Sp. Representative of the S-G on Cambodia
Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
Spécial Rapporteur on Afghanistan
Spécial Rapporteur on Burundi
Spécial Rapporteur on Cuba
Spécial Rapporteur on Democratic Republic of the Congo
Spécial Rapporteur on Equatorial Guinea
Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Special Rapporteur on foreign debt
Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
Special Rapporteur on internally displaced persons
Special Rapporteur on Minorities Issues
Special Rapporteur on Syria
Special Rapporteur on the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation
Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism
Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence
Special Rapporteur on the right to health
Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy
Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous people
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Belarus
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People s Republic of Korea
Special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons especially women and children
Special Rapporteur on unilateral coercive measures
Special Representative of the CHR on Iran
Special Representative of the CHR on Rwanda
Special Representative of the Commission on Equatorial Guinea
Special Representative of the Secretary-General on human rights defenders
Special Representative of the SG on human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
Special Representative on the situation of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of the Committee against Torture
The situation in occupied Palestine
Treaty ratification
UN Development Group
UN human rights field presences
UN human rights publications
Universal Periodic Review
Urbanization and Human Rights
Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
Violence against children
WG (intergovernmental) on the effective implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
WG on Arbitrary Detention
WG on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
WG on Disappearances
WG on draft declaration on indigenous peoples
WG on draft protocol on children in armed conflicts
WG on draft protocol on the sale of children
WG on Indigenous Populations
WG on Minorities
WG on optional protocol to CAT
WG on Permanent forum for indigenous people
WG on structural adjustment programmes
WG on the human rights of migrants
WG on the Right to Development
WG-draft declaration on right and responsibility of individuals
WHRD
Women's rights and gender
Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and in practice
Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises
Working Group on the use of mercenaries
World Conference against Racism
World Conference on Human Rights
Subject
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Accountability of high government officials
Adequate housing
Administration of justice
African Descent
Ageing persons
Albinism
Arbitrary detention
Armed incidents or conflicts
Asylum
Bioethics
Business and human rights
Capital punishment
Child labour
Children
Children in armed conflicts
Children rights
Civil and political rights
Civil society
CoI
CoIDPRK
CoIEritrea
CoIGaza
CoISyria
Compensation of victims of violation of human rights
Conflict resolution diplomacy mediation good offices
Conscientious objection to military service
Crimes against humanity genocide war crimes
Cultural rights
Death penalty
Democracy and human rights
Disability
Disarmament
Discrimination
Economic sanctions
Economic social and cultural rights
Education
Enforced or involuntary disappearances
Environment
Exploitation of the prostitution of others
External debt
Extreme poverty
Family rights
Forced eviction
Forced or bonded labour
Forensic science
Free and fair elections
Freedom of association
Freedom of movement
Freedom of opinion and expression
Fundamental standards of humanity
Gender mainstreaming
General reference
Girl children
Global Migration Group
Globalization and human rights
Governance
Health
HIV/AIDS
Human rights
Human rights and climate change
Human Rights and International Solidarity
Human Rights Council
Human Rights Council Advisory Committee
Human rights defenders
Human rights education
Human rights monitoring
Human rights of youth
Humanitarian assistance
Impunity
Income distribution
Independence of judiciary
Indigenous people
Intellectual property
Internally displaced persons
International courts and tribunals
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
International humanitarian law
International law
International Order
International organizations
Juvenile justice
Labour rights
Law enforcement
Mass exoduses
Massacres
Mercenaries
Migrant workers
Migration and Human Rights
Millennium Development Goals
Minorities
National institutions
Nationality and statelessness
Older persons
Peacekeeping operations
Population transfers
Post-2015 Development
Prison administration
Privacy
Privacy in the digital age
Racism and racial discrimination
Refugees
Regional arrangements
Religious intolerance
Right to a fair trial
Right to development
Right to drinking water
Right to food
Right to peace
Right to peace
Right to property
Rio20
RomaMinorities
Rule of law
Sale of children
Science and technology
Self-determination
Sexual and reproductive health
Sexual exploitation of children
Sexual orientation and gender identity
Slavery
Staff security
State of emergency
Stereotypes
Summary or arbitrary executions
Technological development
Terrorism
Tolerance and pluralism
Torture and inhuman treatment
Toxic waste
Traditional practices
Traffic in persons
Trafficking
Transnational corporations
Truth justice and reparation
Unilateral coercive measures
United Nations
United Nations human rights programme
Universal Periodic Review
Urbanization and Human Rights
Vienna Declaration
Violence against women
Violent extremism
Women
Women and land
Women human rights defenders
Women Peace and Security
Women rights
Work of other organizations in the field of human rights
Work of specialized agencies in the field of human rights
Xenophobia
Youth
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Archived News Items
Opinion Editorials
Posting of Documents
Press Briefing Notes
Press Releases
Statements/Messages
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